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Re: FactCheck Gets Smack Checked

Pippi — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:03:09 -0000

No, PF did not originate the chain letter. He wrote tweets. Anyone can write tweets. But the left is so stubborn and desperate to cling to their idiology that if you're a conservative then you must always be the source and originator of all chain letters. They'll refuse to admit that their own virals are chain letters, and will not admit they are wrong when accusing P. F. of originating a chain letter. It could've been originated by a leftist who stole and modified a series of tweets to make into a chain letter. Whoever lifted those tweets, modified, and put them into a chain letter is guilty of being the source of the chain letter. Simply writing a series of tweets on one's own does not make anyone guilty of originating a chain letter. If anyone did the same to the left, they would be scrambling still to say they were not the source of the chain letter because all they did was write a series of tweets that were lifted. But because it's right-wing, then to the left, if you tweet right-wing, you must without any doubt be the culprit of the chain letter. That's bull, and it's desperate bull.

Re: Invisible Man Photographs - Man Painted to Blend into Background

Pippi — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:36:44 -0000

Astonishing!

Re: FactCheck Gets Smack Checked

Pippi — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:13:19 -0000

Yes, there are plenty of people who can rip off someone's writing and turn it into a chain letter. Someone could start a chain letter from the things you write, and then you could be thought of as the person who started it simply because you wrote what was lifted from you by the person who started the chain letter. The only difference between this chain letter and the dying kid hoax poems is that the left-wingers are doing their best to scream "This is another wacky right-wing CHAIN LETTER and it came from this blog!" while the dying kid hoaxes have attempted to strip the authors of credit for the poems that were plagiarized for the misuse in the hoaxes.

Re: FactCheck Gets Smack Checked

Pippi — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:07:37 -0000

Thanks Patriot, for proving what I've said about plenty of hate, lies, unimportant, trivial and desperate hair-s0plitting in pathetic attempts to win a debate, and whining coming from the left. The fact remains people believe the chain letter was started here, and it wasn't. Now go back under your rock and try to figure out how I could manage to sit at a keyboard and write if I'm a "moron who can't read" as you spewed in one of your comments. Thanks for that part of your post making me laugh.

Re: FactCheck Gets Smack Checked

Pippi — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:57:05 -0000

I'm saying he didn't originate the chain letter. If anyone took from a series of tweets either without his permission, or under false pretences and made a chain letter out of them, including modification of those tweets to suit their own agenda, the one who lifted and changed them into a chain letter, is the source of the chain letter and not Mr. Fleckenstein. For all anyone knows, it may even(and I said 'may even' not 'definitely is' be someone on the far left mascarading as someone on the far right who did this as a bad prank, and lifting someone else's tweets to use in a chain letter hoax is plagiarism. It wouldn't be the first time what someone wrote was taken, changed and put into a chain letter hoax. Henson Towne's poem "Around the Corner" David L. Weatherford's "Slow Dance" and Sally Meyers' "Spending the Day" poems were all ripped off, to be used in hoaxes. There were some changes here and there to these writings, with their authors stripped of credit for the poems, to be used in chain letter hoaxes that are circulating today after many years. The only difference here is that the left is bound and determined to make sure everyone believes their claims that Mr. Fleckenstein originated the chain letter when he did not. That claim is deliberately defamatory and fraudulent, nothing short of a smear campaign. They didn't howl too loudly over the notorious White House chain letter, but boy oh boy, whenever there is a chain letter coming from their opponents, they whinge about it virally all over the net, because the left wants to make sure everybody believes that chain letters can only come from the right and the moderates, especially when everyone should realize by now that chain letters are a form of spam, and the way all manner of hoaxes spread on the internet.

Re: Sam Bish Prayer Request Email

Pippi — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:51:20 -0000

Prayers coming your way, Sam.

Re: Bloody Mary Curse Chain Email

Pippi — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:27:07 -0000

Bloody Mary and some of her ficticious chain letter henchmen really get creamed on the Hoaxton page at http://Fictionlands.pbworks.com/Hoaxton. Maybe another idea for parents who have kids troubled by malicious death chain letter hoaxes is to help them make up an ending to the story that vanquishes the specter. I've heard this approach is sometimes used to help children deal with nightmares, telling/writing them out, and then try turning them into a good story that ends well for them as opposed to whatever they were fearing in their dreams. I can't express how disgusting it is that people create hoaxes that target little kids in this way. It's as bad as those who make up dying kid hoaxes to play on the emotions of adults who want to do something good.

Re: FactCheck Gets Smack Checked

Pippi — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:21:26 -0000

The important issue is that Factcheck and Politifact jumped the gun and accused someone of being the source therefore, originating a chain letter they didn't. These sites aren't as factual and reliable as the names of their sites suggest if they won't even make sure not to further a left-wing smear campaign. And it is a smear when people are lead to believe someone originated a chain letter they didn't. Regardless of health care politics, Factcheck got it wrong, implying this blogger was responsible for a mass chain letter, and that is a malicious lie the average reader will likely believe. The implications are definitely there. The least Factcheck can do is admit they don't know who created/originated the chain letter, instead of going along with the crowd and using misinformation to convince everyone that if you're a right-winger or a moderate, you are always going to originate bogus chain letters but if you're on the left, you are so much more intellectually advanced. There is plenty of hate, idiotics, and yes, chain letter activity coming from the left, they just don't yell "Look at the idiotic chain letter!" when it comes from their own side. It doesn't matter who's right or wwrong on the health care debate, everybody's got a different opinion. The bottom line is Mr. Fleckenstein is not responsible for the misguided chain letter.

Re: FactCheck Gets Smack Checked

Pippi — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:40:57 -0000

It's been noted on the site against chain letters http://chainletters.pbworks.com that Politifact and Factcheck have falsely accused you of the chain letter. Right on the front page. It'll be moved to a different section once the buzz those jokers at the supposedly "factual" sites dies down and people stop posting everything they get from there on their own blogs as if it was gospel. It's really tiresome seeing everybody yell "Look at the right-wing people passing on this NASTY chain letter! Politifact says it comes from them!"

Re: The 3 Ds of Lisa Falkenberg

Pippi — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:05:31 -0000

I've suspected for a long time that much of the so-called rightwing activity, especially concerning blatant racism and chain letters was actually committed by the radical left.

Re: busted by facebook: kyle doyle and the sickie

Pippi — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:41:29 -0000

Kyle Doyle is sure to get his immortality in one of those annoying chain letter forwards. If this story is true, what a dim bulb. It isn't friending the boss that's the problem, it's people doing idiotic things in the first place, then boasting about them online. As for Pony's dipstick comment about the boss being a "workforce Nazi" that translates as "I'm a big freaking idiot!"

Re: Detect Narcissists on Facebook

Pippi — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:45:58 -0000

I think there's something to this, especially considering how many people seem to go in for these groups that cater to ego-stroking by saying you can collect thousands of "friends" by joining them. In reality, the "Make friends! Add me!" groups are nothing but user info collectors, a lot of them actually tell you you must "friend" all the admins, officers, and everyone in the group, and mass-invite all your friends. That isn't friendship, it's playing on people's desire to look popular, in order to collect as many members as possible.

One has to wondder about people who seem to think they have to have a large number of friends on their list. I have even seen individuals complaining about Facebook's limit on friends, capped at - what is it, 5000? Who in the world honestly has 5000 friends? Don't tell me that simply adding everyone under the sun equals "friendship" it doesn't. But apparently some people seem to think so, and having all these names on their list of "friends" makes them feel special, which seems quite narcisistic to me.

Applications can be telling as well, so many people add "top friends" "hot or not" and other friend-ranking applications, all of that is ego-puffing nonsense IMO, and doesn't promote any real friendship or communication. Even "compare people" what's the point other than seeing which of your friends you are most similar to? As if real life hasn't already taught you this, but some people seem to feel they need an application to broadcast how alike they are to their friends on a social networking site.

So this is a great article, it has really touched on something that I've been thinking all along, and what a refreshing change from the zillions of articles out there on the anti-new Facebook crowd.

Re: 5 Features You’ll Like in the New Facebook Design

Pippi — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:04:22 -0000

Exactly, and it's not as if FB has sluffed off in the accessibility department when making these changes, things just aren't in the order the members are used to, but the whole thing just works better. With curiosity and patience, and the results of these changes being more quality communication, I hope more people will see the positive instead of getting so uptight. Lots of times, "new and improved" is anything but, however, I think this time, FB really does have it right.

Re: 5 Features You’ll Like in the New Facebook Design

Pippi — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:13:53 -0000

I was just commenting on another article about the new Facebook, agreeing with some of your points above. Less application clutter is definitely a good thing, though app activity still tends to clutter up a minifeed on a profile. All the additional comment areas with each story in the news feed is wonderful, it really does make it easier to communicate as one navigates down the Facebook home page to see what their friends have been up to. Great article.

Re: My Thoughts on the Revolt Against the Facebook Redesign (from the guy who started the first revolt)

Pippi — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:02:30 -0000

There is a group pro-new Facebook and against the revolt, but it has just one member. But in my opinion, the new Facebook design is much better for facilitating communication, with additional comment areas throughout the feed. More communication and less spammy viral stuff, now if only FB would can those horrible "Someone is checking you out, click here!" ads.