I just got accepted as a commentor at "Boring Heads." I asked to be able to participate and for them to make an exception for a conservative. Their witty reply to me busting their chops is as follows:
Dear Trooper,
This is your lucky day. Once every year, during the holiday season, we allow ONE conservative to join the select Bloggingheads Community, and this year that person is you!
That is pretty cool. I don't intend to watch any of those videos as they are as boring as NPR. But the only way you can tell if your team is really good is if you play on a neutral field. You know what I mean jellybean?
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I hope they pair you up against Althouse. Or Meade. Anything but you and Bob Wright because that would be like a Subway Worlds Series.
Ninety minutes of Trooper and Titus discussing loaves. Don't think I can do it.
Oh I am not going to be commenter in the sense of being on a video. I am just a little pissant. I am just going to be able to post a comment if a certain crazy person starts spouting nonsense about us. It is a protective measure actually. If she doesn't have me banned as I expect she will try to do.
Plus you have to be certified as a 100% boring maroon to be a participant in Boringheads. I might be a maroon but I don't think I am boring enough.
I haven't watched very many, but it'd be pure gold to see someone rip off the headset, yell, "FUCK OFF!!," and storm off the to the kitchen to fix a sandwich while the camera keeps rolling. Most times, they seem content to try to bore each other to death.
Bloggingheads has comments?
I remember when Althouse made that little Palin-hater almost cry. That had entertainment value.
Feminist blogger gets bit by Althouse, very interesting, I don't think Althouse was talking about this blogger in her blog post referenced here, just using a feminist as an example of the point she was trying to make. What do you make of it?
Althouse has a blog post up about this incident. Link above is to the Tenured Radical's blog post referencing this.
You know what would be fun to see?
A video taped "Ask Trooper Anything" like Sullivan puts up. A parody even. Of course the source of questions would have to be confidential--or not.
Allie I don't care anymore what they have to say. I just want to be sure that any lies will be answered. Lawyers lie. That's what they do for a living. Law professor teach them how to lie. So we have to be sure that any egregious lies are answered. The little ones we can let go.
It is pretty funny that the deletion circus is continuing over there when it is supposed to be a bastion of free speech.
What a crock of shit.
Allie, it looks to me like Freeman had the right call on Potter in that thread.
Congratulations. I would love to see you and my doppelgänger dicusing consonants, wound licking, and box wine choices (oh wait, never mind that, they don't allow box wine sales on Amazon).
I see that you even had the idea before Sullivan: linky.
I am not a big deal in the blog world so I will never be a guest on "Boringheads." I don't watch them so I doubt I would be on one. I don't want to imply that I am important enough for them to want me to be on it. That is as far from the truth as you can get.
They have you register to comment over there. They are even more restrictive than then new ground rules established by the groundskeeper at the EBL's blog (the original EBL that is).
I don't imagine I will be able to comment there more than two or three times before they ban me. But I want to set it up if we need to jump into to defend ourselves from you know who.
Back in the real world my friend, who has two felonies on his record, got into a drunken brawl with his wife, whacked her hard enough to break her occipital bone and was arrested but ROR'd. So today we went to a lawyer who said that at the first hearing or whatever it's called he, the lawyer, will attempt to avoid indictment, but if he can't that means trial and a possible life sentence. Plus my friend is near broke as per usual so I'll end up paying the bulk of the lawyer's fee, which ain't light. Why do I stay friends with this guy? I've been asking myself that for years. Sometimes by helping someone you get more stuck with that person the more you help him. And this disaster has been going on for years. Only now it's dead serious. Oh well, tis the season...
That's a real tough one ricpic. It is good that you are standing up for your friend but beating on his wife is reason enough to drop someone. Of course his wife might have been beating him right back because I had seen that plenty of times.
Sometimes your old friends are a lot more trouble than they are worth. Especially when they grow up to be crooked cops or mob guys or something. Sometimes you have to cut the cord and go your own way.
He broke the bone in her face. That means he meant business. You don't punch someone in the eye socket unless you mean it.
All speech is free, but some speech is freer than others. With apologies to Orwell.
If the wife doesn't press charges he could walk. Or if she doesn't have any felonies they can claim she started it and let her take the rap because he was just defending himself. But somehow I don't think that is going to happen.
Troop, I'm a slow thinker, but it occurred to me, isn't it the law that a wife can't testify against her husband? Second question: he, obviously, is prohibited from making any contact with her, but couldn't I, not a named party in the case, call her and ask her to show mercy at the trial should there be a trial?
This brawl started or at least culminated when she bit his tongue followed by the whack.
I think in our state, the police press charges, not the victim of domestic abuse. That way, the abuser can't bully/intimidate the victim into dropping the charges.
Friends can put you in some odd positions, eh?
Well it would be very entertaining on Boring Heads , should that come to pass.
I don't know how it works ricpic but I think Windbag is right. The cops press charges and then the facts come out. That is why he souldn't take a plea. If the facts are as you say (not doubting you but your friend might have shaded it a little) then he has to throw her under the bus. That still might not fly because nobody wants to believe that a man can be abused by a woman but it happens all the time.
We need somebody like Ndspinelli who deals with stuff like this all the time to give us some insight.
They would never have someone like me on "Boringheads." It is only for boring intellectual egghead elitist types. Plus they have plenty of their own commenters who have a prior and better claim to being participants. I am just a little pischer.
I just want to have the option of setting the record straight if lying liars start lying about us. That's all.
It would be better for them to keep our name out of their mouth. Just sayn'
That's the way it is here in upstate New York, too, windbag. The state, not the injured party, presses the charge. And there was a long list of all the things my friend couldn't do to influence the case. Basically no contact with the injured party in any way manner or shape. But I wonder whether I, a friend of the accused, can contact his wife and ask her to go easy on him should there be a trial. But you're right, she has no say at this point as to whether or not this will come to trial.
According to an employee (ex crack dealer who knows a helluva lot more about the legal system than I ever want to know), approaching a witness/victim can put you in a world of shit. Be careful.
I grew up in upstate NY. Good place to be from.
I think you need to be careful ricpic. You can get jammed up trying to help a friend. It ain't worth it. Be careful.
No. You can't hit women. You must walk away. Even if it is extremely embarassing. You must walk away. Real men will understand.
ripic, you cannot save everyone. Hitting a woman is almost always wrong (the only time it would be okay is if she was holding weapon and it was truly self defense or defense of another to do so). Otherwise you walk away.
Your friend screwed up. Badly.
If you want to help him and he is a good friend (who obivously fucked up) you can if you want give him some money for hiring a good laywer. Don't expect it to ever be paid back.
I agree with AllenS. Although there are cases where people can be seriously hurt by a woman beating on them. I had a friend who that happened to all the time. He was a big burly guy and his wife was a tiny little midget. She wailed on him with every freakin' thing she could get her hands on. Bottles. Golf clubs. Pots and pans. Finally she almost took out his eye with a fireplace poker.
After that one he got a divorce. He didn't want to leave his kid but he had to leave the situation. The crazy wife never hit the kid but the kid fled as soon as he could by joining the Marines as soon as they would take him.
It can be a really fucked up situation. You can't save everybody.
But I wonder whether I, a friend of the accused, can contact his wife and ask her to go easy on him should there be a trial. But you're right, she has no say at this point as to whether or not this will come to trial.
If she loves him, is a good person who understands the circumstances of what happened, and understands why he did it, she knows that already. If she hates him and wants him to burn, you just added a five gallon can of gasoline to an already hot fire. And he will not be the only one burned in that fire.
Don't do it.
And the truth may be your friend is an asshole who deserves the state doing what it is doing.
And if you are not in a position to give him enough for really good legal counsel (which would probably cost at least $25,000 and probably a lot more than that). Then save your money and give it to him in small doses for commissary privileges when he is in prison. Life in prison is obviously better if you have little cash.
You must walk away. Going through life, I've made many mistakes. Many, many, many, and I'm still making them. I've taken that as an understanding of life. Swallowing your pride is very hard, but sometimes, you have to do it. People (who you considered a friend), who will then laugh at you are not your friend.
I did jury duty once where the guy was accused of felony property damage for burning his wife's clothes on the lawn. They got into a major brawl at the local tavern they frequented and he allegedly went home, threw her clothes out the window, then ran out and set them ablaze. He says she did it to get him in trouble.
As a jury we wondered why the wife was not being charged too. Obviously both sides were partially responsble and both could use some anger management and AA meeting.
The case settled before the trial went to the jury. The lawyers came in to tell us what happened. The deal was basically anger management classes and AA and probation for the guy (she did not have to do anything). But I wondered if she did light those clothes on fire.
I went home and told my wife. She responded: He absolutely set the clothes on fire. I asked her how she could be so sure. She responded: No woman would light her own clothes on fire.
So there you go.
AllenS is completely right. And you know what? You might have helped this guy out of a million jams and bailed him out of a million problems. But if you don't do it this time....why then you suck. And he will hate you and curse the day you were born. All the stuff you did to save his ass before won't matter. It is what you have done lately that counts.
Listen to AllenS and Fred. Walk away.
That was great, Fred.
Abuse is ugly, whether it be physical,emotional or even spiritual ,a situation in which a spouse drains the life out of you, kills whatever joy you have , or tries to.
Divorce is the best option, before things escalate to this degree, even though it may mean losing something else that you hold very precious.
Okay guys, message received. What you all said makes sense and I won't phone her.
The fact is I have little sympathy for my friend but the prospect of a life sentence (because of the three strike felony rule) seems awfully harsh to me for something that, awful as it was, didn't put her in the hospital.
Well, we shall see.
She responded: No woman would light her own clothes on fire.
Were they all her clothes or just stuff she hadn't worn in forever and needed to donate to goodwill? I would totally light that stuff on fire, but never my favorite things.
Men don't hit women and to that rule there are NO exceptions. I was taught that by my old man.
I've traded a few blows with women over time.
Granted, we were sparring but...
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