life is very short, and there’s no time

for fussing and fighting, my friend
I have always thought that it’s a crime
so I will ask you once again
try to see it my way . . .

If you need to do something to improve the health of your heart and/or your blood pressure, here are two hints:

1. Eat a high-fiber diet
   
2. Don't read talkamarillo.com

The chat bulletin board for the Amarillo Globe-Republican is a Llano Estacado Free Republic. It has traditionally been populated largely by the wingnuttiest of them all. A few brave progressives attempt to represent, but their efforts are largely futile. For their trouble, they are abused, harassed, and even banned from the board. (I'm serious; although this practice appears to have subsided some, I tried a series of experiments a while back in which I logged on to talkamarillo and posted liberal commentary. I took care to be very polite and abide by all rules. I was banned, over&over&over. And I'm not the only one.) They don't treat their trolls so nice over there.

The talkamarillo administrator can't keep us from lurking, however. What follows is some of what I found on a recent foray into the Belly of the Beast.

• "unkown": (sic) Cindy Sheehan surely has better things to do

• "west-texan": Dumb Liberals just don't ever get it. Her son VOLUNTEERED for military duty.She is only making herself look very bad and dumb by whining and acting childishly.She needs to act like a brave adult and accept and honor her son's volunteer choices and sacrifices in life, like the other families have, rather than making a nut-case spectacle of herself.From what I read, she and the rest of the nuts are going to be arrested for trespassing and creating a public nuisance . . . Calling Islam a religion is even a big stretch, because Islam is really a FASCIST CRIMINAL CULT and has lost any legitimacy it might have ever had.

• "steveintx": Nobody has explained why she supported President Bush and his policies in the weeks following her sons death. The only thing we are now getting from Mrs. Sheehan now is what the socialists are telling her to say. Mrs. Sheehan needs to stop allowing herself to be used by these pukes. I feel sorry for her loss. She must remember that her son was doing something that he wanted to do [die? ed.] I noticed that Howard the Duck is supporting invading Iran. The Screamer has more rocks in his head than I thought. . . Newsflash, the president didn't declare war, He just presented the evidence he was given to the elected Congress then they declared war. . .
  

• "RapMasterChop": MORON!! and for those fool on the left that talk of iran and the "ignored nuclear threat" who is the # 1.1 enemy of Sadam right behind the USA IRAN MORONS so Iran thumbs its nose at jOHN kERRYS EUROPE and builds nukes......so i guess Sadam would have just sat on his A$$ and done nothing huh......fools George Bush prevented iraq from going nuclear...and Libya to come clean....and syria to look over its shoulder the lib/dems would have let all 4 go nuclear!just like clinton and india and the pakis and north korea

On another note, here's a post from a citizen who might ordinarily be disposed to side with these lunatics.

"James": You still don;t get it. You like to use Liberal as an insult, but fail to apply it with any intelligence. My voting history for presidents:

Reagan
Bush
Bush
Dole
Bush
Kerry

I served 9 years in the Marines, a vetran of Desert Storm. I work for my money, came from a poor background full of hard working people. No one in my family has ever taken welfare, nor will we. We all view any able bodied person on the dole as scum.On the flip side, I care not what a person's race, gender, or what have you is. . . I judge people by their actions only. I am also an atheist. In many of the hard core, religious nut, racist people's eyes, this is enough to brand me "Liberal" . . . but all that does is show their ignorance of the word, and life in general. Disagreeing with piss poor military decisions like starting an unneccesary second war whent he first war is not progressing well is not liberalism, it is simple common sense. Now, West, you may address the points of the issue, or you may attempt once again to call me names that don't apply. Which shall it be? You might need to rub just a little of the rhetoric out of your eyes before replying.

I wonder how much of the talkamarilloan's hateful wingnut attitude turned him off and won him over to the forces of good without liberals ever lifting a finger. Maybe we should treat our trolls nicer! Hey, Curious Texan! We love you! Come over here, you big lug. Group hug!

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