I didn't say you hang out there, it is just one of few sites I have been exposed to that is demonstrably more conservative than the standard editorial bend of this site.

If you dislike drudgedot that much, why do you keep coming back? I know it's not townhall.com but if that's what you want this to be, then wouldn't it be redundant?

No, it becomes a conspiracy when the facts are left behind and assumptions are substituted in their place. When you insist that the email debacle is a high crime because it is associated with a democrat and you want it to be associated with other conspiracies that you have helped propagate for some time, then it becomes a conspiracy.

I'm going off of other comments that were posted here on slashdot. Not that you ever follow links that I post anyways.

There is indeed a fact that Secretary Clinton was using a private email server (as someone else pointed out, this was not unprecedented; Colin Powell apparently did the same before her). However you and others are propagating a conspiracy that she did it to hide something dire. Similarly you and others are propagating a conspiracy that this somehow leads back to the Lawnchair Administration and to some grave impeachable offense.

Smitty there was a front page article here on one of your favorite conspiracies, I'm surprised you haven't commented on it. Hell, not only is it one of your favorites but a lot of people tie it directly to your favorite conspiracy.

Me? Astroturfing? No. I vote for the guy who least wants me serving out my life in debtor's prison. If I can't make a living, then there is no other issue that matters.

That said, it would make no sense for a socialist such as myself to run an astroturfing campaign. The ones who most oppose a socialist are the corporate bigwigs who fund astroturfing campaigns. They fund your campaigns instead and tell you the astroturf is Kentucky blue.

Oh, wait, you didn't need to pass a test for that.

I'm just trying to think how that would have been possible. I think back then there was a medical exception you could plead for. I didn't. I passed the 20 WPM test fair and square and got K6BP as a vanity call, long before there was any way to get that call without passing a 20 WPM test.

Unfortunately, ARRL did fight to keep those code speeds in place, and to keep code requirements, for the last several decades that I know of and probably continuously since 1936. Of course there was all of the regulation around incentive licensing, where code speeds were given a primary role. Just a few years ago, they sent Rod Stafford to the final IARU meeting on the code issue with one mission: preventing an international vote for removal of S25.5 . They lost.

I am not blaming this on ARRL staff and officers. Many of them have privately told me of their support, including some directors and their First VP, now SK. It's the membership that has been the problem.

I am having a lot of trouble believing the government agency and NGO thing, as well. I talked with some corporate emergency managers as part of my opposition to the encryption proceeding (we won that too, by the way, and I dragged an unwilling ARRL, who had said they would not comment, into the fight). Big hospitals, etc.

What I got from the corporate folks was that their management was resistant to using Radio Amateurs regardless of what the law was. Not that they were chomping at the bit waiting to be able to carry HIPAA-protected emergency information via encrypted Amateur radio. Indeed, if you read the encryption proceeding, public agencies and corporations hardly commented at all. That point was made very clearly in FCC's statement - the agencies that were theorized by Amateurs to want encryption didn't show any interest in the proceeding.

So, I am having trouble believing that the federal agency and NGO thing is real because of that.

Obviously if you investigate far enough into this, you will eventually find the email between Hillary, Obama, and ISIS that orders the attack on Benghazi. It's in there, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

In my travels I have found that US airports vary widely in availability of electric outlets for charging devices. For a while a lot of them were making them only available on a pay-per-use basis. Others had outlets freely available but not enough of them.

Cell service is nice and all, but being as I'm flying steerage class where I pretty well never get an outlet to plug anything in to, I'm more interested in what I can do to charge my devices before the cattle call for boarding comes up. Doubly so at hub airports where I am connecting.

So then to further the perceived interests of "we the people", you are going to promote the candidate and movement most worthy of the astroturfing lifetime achievement award. Right on.

Did fusta suddenly inhabit your body for that comment? While we haven't made it very far into the current electoral cycle I haven't yet seen a candidate present themselves as the alternative to "the suck".

Well if that is what you want in a POTUS, then you definitely need to look to someone other than The Kevlar Kandidate:

He has never, to the best of my knowledge, assumed responsibility for the job losses and state debts that have come to pass under his administration. In fact, he is known for trying to pass of utterly bogus numbers in their place.

The only fault I have seen him to admit has been when he believes someone else is at fault.

There are several thousand people who had non-political public-sector jobs before his administration who would argue that he hasn't done this to any great extent, either.

It is trivial to find cases of his administration going out seeking revenge on foes - real or perceived.

Actually that is pretty much the antithesis of any campaign I have seen in the past decade.

Not all of us see every comment as an opportunity to change the topic. We could go back to where I started, and discuss how The Kevlar Kandidate has pretty much a perfect record of accomplishing the opposite of his promises, but you seem to have already lost interest in that. When you instead go back to your unending desires to end the Lawnchair Administration early by any means available, the discussion goes that way.

If you want, you could try to bring it all back home by telling us why the failings of The Kevlar Kandidate are all actually the fault of President Lawnchair.

So now you claim that voting is "idiocy". How, then, do you expect anything to change? If you just want to sit and watch while the world burns, that is your choice, but don't blame the outcome on the people who actually take the time to vote while you are instead trying to discourage voting.

I'm fine with you choosing not to vote. You do have that choice. But I am not required to sit and listen to your holier-than-thou shtick while knowing that you intentionally do no participate in elections.

Am I forcing you to reply when you have nothing to say? I'm quite sure I don't have that ability. If I had it, I would not see a good use for it.