Gee, are we now going to see posts about how the BFEE killed Gerald Ford?

I'll bet $10 that we do, with lots of references to his having been part of the Warren Commission.

I can't wait.

Redstone

:sarcasm:

Wheres my ten bucks now?

Don

Redstone

We all know that accidents don't happen and that 93-year-old men don't just die.

Redstone

I hadn't even considered that.

I of course already knew there's going to be 10 thousand posts about this tomorrow and at least half a dozen major flame wars, but my mind hadn't wandered down that road yet.

I should probably just go to bed.

let the factiness fall where it may......

What other delusions do you wish to expose?

Aren't they? From those black helicopters...

Redstone

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I'm not sure though.

Redstone

Redstone

:hi:

Redstone

as the looney left the reich-wing hate mongers are always claiming us to be. Interesting effort by a "fellow Dem" to say the least....

Julie

Sorry to rain on your parade, but I don't think anyone's gonna buy that.

Redstone

Thanks for pointing one of them out. We were having a bit of fun, weren't we?

But some folks don't LIKE fun, apparently.

Redstone

:shrug:

before you make that kind of judgement, being that my post was about the nature of DU.

Redstone

Yeah they get crazy and the anti-CT flamebait gets old :).

This just seemed like flamebait. Oh well-to each their own I suppose.
I am going to hide this thread-it will be around a long time and waste a lot of people's time and not educate or inform anyone, but...to each his or her own.

I guess some people like to feel superior to others just as some people need crazy CTs to make their world interesting. Both waste a lot of time and energy that could be spent working on stuff important to true progressives.

Good night :).

Lighten up.

some with sorrow, some with humor.

I owe you one.

Redstone

although I've been a member longer than you have. :)

You want us all to be intellectuals? Political pundits? Savvy analysts? Half or more of the people here visit for purposes of reading the nutjobs. Maybe they pick something up along the way. That's good. Maybe they see people getting all steroid like on some mild fun poking. That's bad.

I think James Brown and "Gerald Ford" were really the same man.

93 and 73, odd how they both end in three, isn't it?

Redstone

Gerald Ford is known for falling down, James Brown is known for "Get on up!"

This is weird.

But be careful. They're watching you.

Redstone

:D

:rofl:

Don't you think that's an awfully big coincidence? Something funny is going on here.

Redstone

It's a secret code.

RIP Mr. Ford. Vaya con Dios.

First, look at the posting times.

This thread is an assinine response to my SIMPLE STATEMENT of FACT.

Secondly, at no time did I say anything that implied Ford's death was untimely or unnatural.

Thirdly, I never said anything about the BFEE.


The fact that some DU members haven't been getting enough attention lately and need to start pointless and self-embarrassing threads based on his own misdrawn conclusions, I would suggest they and others of that ilk have listened to one too many White House press conferences and no longer know how to have a simple discussion about an actual fact.

If there's another thread that actually suggests Ford's death was due to BFEE and was somehow untimely, I will apologize.

It doesn't have jack shit to do with your thread, or any other.

Get over yourself, would you?

Oh, and by the way, I have an "ilk?" I'm flattered.

Redstone

We've eaten enough Republican bullshit over the last six years to smell it ten miles away.

You cite three threads that "inspired" this pointless flame-bait, and that one is included. It's obvious from the posting times. Nevermind that none of the threads you cite as "it's already begun" have anything to do with the fantasy you've concocted which is totally insulting to DU as a whole and embarrassing to you and DU.

You say you've 'got to have some fun' which translates to YOU LIKE TO STIR SHIT even where none exists.

Bra-fucking-vo!

Redstone

Tell your ego I'm sorry for the bruises it has sustained.

Redstone

Redstone

Thank you mighty Redstone!

Redstone

He was a very public breath of air in a difficult time for the country. "Our...nightmare is over."

truly decent human being, and his death should not be demeaned by a bunch of conspiracy-theorist bullshit and ugly accusations.

But it will be here at DU, it will be. And that's sad.

Redstone

Always got one of them buts. I know.

I lived through that era and about all I can remember about him was he took the job he was appointed to take and pardoned the crooks he was told to pardon.

Other than that I remember his administration as kind of uneventful.

Maybe I missed something back then?

Don

Rummy and Cheney come to mind.

oh hell what`s this correct crap...ya they smoked pot and they grew there own in the whitehouse basement...

oh ya he was`t that bad a guy

First person to smoke a doobie in the White House since Thomas Jefferson.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2982626

and

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2982601

and

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2982603

What's next, do you suppose?

Redstone

:shrug:

Redstone

What's to be gained by piling on when a decent human being caught in a terrible time dies? I mean, honestly!!

lets just start threads about such things anyway to imply how stupid and obsessed with conspiracies DUers are blah blah.... :eyes:

How about waiting for them to start before starting threads on them? Personally I think the CTist DUers are way less annoying than the centrist, DLC shills who are so smug and conscious about how "sensible" and "practical" and overall adorably clever they are. Especially given that they are the ones posting in the most useless threads like "Woman loses baby in mall", "Man has two wives" etc.

I prefer misguided threads with some historical context at least to the Fox News Greta Van Susteran style threads on "Human Interest stories" or the navel gazing ones about DU itself or the flamebait smoker vs non, pro/anti video game ones or the ones gawking at Freepers. Most threads on the environment, Darfur etc. sink like stones here and the "sensible, awesome" DUers aren't posting on those...

sheesh...

Redstone

how stupidly knee-jerk anti-"conspiracy" can you get.

But at least you get it, and I thank you for that.

Redstone

like a man and got up like a man & kept Presidentin' until the day he died which was today in case you didn't realize that, so we should all bow our heads down and be thankful that he had the courage to be a pardoning president instead of a WAR prerzeldont like we have now.

I get it, Redstone. You are the best.

RIP Gerald Ford, you have my respect. Thank You for Your Service.

Redstone

to do what he was told ?

But watch GD over the next few days, and tell me if I wasn't right.

Yes?

Redstone

I noticed we posted almost the same on another thread, really I didn't read yours first, just responded (yeah yeah yeah bullshit). OK, now to be off DU mostly until this is over. nixon=babybush? BFEE killed fords? sigh.

The level of anger and hardcore unforgivingness gets old damned fast, doesn't it?

Redstone

mrbush>nixon regarding crimes against humanity, argh. off to read and bed, lounge tomorrow since I hate hide thread and don't want to see them.

I'm off to read a great book about Albania, and let people beat themselves to death against each other in GD as well.

Sleep well.

Redstone

at Republicans.

And WAS Ford "a decent man"? Quote: Poppy was later appointed CIA director by Gerald Ford...http://www.saveourwetlands.org/12voices.html

Du is kind of a family, and family members tend to poke fun at one another.

Sorry I don't subscribe to your orthodoxy. I'll try to do better in the future.

And yes, I still believe he was a good man. Even if it doesn't jibe with your orthodoxy.

Redstone

More enlightening would be why you judge Ford to be "a good man", your not, presumably, having known him personally. Was it because he pardoned Nixon?

Redstone

They saw James Brown die and had to counter it so he would not get his due. Plus, they want us to totally forget there is a war. And it helps with some alien cover ups (plus - what did Ford know about 9/11???).

Now if we can just get bush to step away from the tsunami machine....

and they couldn't take the chance that he might spill the beans

big time

Ford was all too happy to commit unnatural acts for the good of the RW Authoritarian repukes for his whole career. They probably asked him to die now to give Junior more time to "mull over" his Iraq debacle and Ford, ever compliant, agreed to do it.

RIP President Ford

Mr. Olsen was the CIA scientist who refused to go along with the plan. So, he was fed LSD, driven mad, and then "suicided."

http://www.serendipity.li/cia/olson2.htm

Cheney and Rumsfeld were crucial in covering up the crime.

http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd0828.html

Rummy and Cheney are BFEE turds, but I don't think they killed Ford, though. Real funny, huh?

n/t

Here's more.

Laura. Betty.

Susan - Jenna.

Gerald - George.

Are you seeing a picture here? Because I am. And it's getting clearer by the minute.

My job here is done.

:tinfoilhat:


:hide:

Damn funny.

Redstone

I don't mind having my quirks and foibles and tendencies pointed out in a humorous manner by other DUers. That's what friends do, after all. And it seems that quite a few other DUers are capable of chuckling at DU's tendency, as a group, to not take anything at face value, and to blow a LOT of things WAY out of proportion.

But some of us don't have much of a sense of humor. I suppose that happens in this large a group of people.

Redstone

Redstone

They let him live to be 93, at which time he died of old age. They knew it was going to happen all along. :P

Do they?

Only idiots...

If somebody happen to be a idiot they migth take a fence at that.

Him while he was toddling down the hall on his walker causing him to fall and break something

because Clinton told him to.

:shrug:

BUT, I think it is pretty silly to risk detection when the victim of your mind crime has one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.
I'm sure even the BFEE has standards.:silly: