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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
1888 Posts |
 Posted - 10/15/2009 : 09:01:43
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Don't you just love The Onion
"GOP.com, the new social networking site for Republicans, crashed hours after it was launched on Tuesday. What do you think?"
Dave Nowak,
Campus Activities Director
"No site structure can possibly withstand that many people typing in all caps."
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Life is good
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. -Anonymous |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 10/15/2009 : 12:23:43 [Permalink]
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Coincidently, I have just returned from a harrowing safari into the wilds of GOP.com, the new and improved website for the RNC. It was quite interesting because there I found a page of Republican heroes. There really aren't very many of them, and I, and others, wonder what poor Jacky Robinson did to deserve such disrespect. One suspects that they were just scrambling for names and found the guy who not only broke the color barrier in pro baseball, but was a damned fine second baseman as well. Don't recall hearing that he was a Republican, though.
The Rude Pundit did me the favor of researching some of the more doubtful of these folks (scroll down), and lo & behold:
10/14/2009
Fun Facts About Great and Achieving Republicans (A Corrective to GOP.com's Historical Whitewash):
The cool thing about the people discussed at the shiny new nickel of a site, GOP.com, is that if you tell only part of the story, you can make anyone seem just awesome. You may have already heard about the absurdity of citing Jackie Robinson as a Republican "hero." Well, the whole damn site is filled with historical myopia. To wit:
Samuel Curtis, cited at GOP.com for writing the Pacific Railway Act while an Iowa congressman, was also a general in the Union army. He sent the following message in a telegram in 1864 to Colonel John Chivington, who was fighting Native Americans in Colorado: "I want no peace till the Indians suffer more...No peace must be made without my directions." This led directly to the Sand Creek Massacre of a large group of Cheyenne. (Fun side note: Chivington loved to give lectures where he showed off the dozens of scalps he collected.)
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And so forth. The mal-accomplishments of some of these “heroes” is remarkable,
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 10/15/2009 : 14:50:35 [Permalink]
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Too freakin' much:
RNC Web Site Pays Tribute To Ronaldus Magnus
Eric Kleefeld | October 14, 2009, 3:26PM
The new Republican National Committee Web site has been derided for its "GOP Heroes" section -- which teaches us that almost all of the great Republicans lived in the 1800's, and about half of them were black -- but there's another illustrious name on the list: Ronaldus Magnus.
The site's page on Ronald Reagan includes this citation of the party's great hero, giving him a stylized name we might see on a Roman emperor:
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No, it ain't The Onion, but the RNC site is in the running. What a bunch of mooks...
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Republican Site Crashes
