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Comment on The Phoenician’s prediction by Phoenician in a time of Romans

Phoenician in a time of Romans — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 06:11:28 +0000

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/12/us-boots-on-ground-in-libya-pentagon-confirms/

U.S. Boots on the Ground in Libya, Pentagon Confirms

By Justin Fishel

Published September 12, 2011

Despite repeated assurances from President Obama and military leaders that the U.S. would not send uniformed military personnel into Libya, four U.S. service members arrived on the ground in Tripoli over the weekend.

We also notice that you premptively blocked me from your new site, even when simply posting articles showing that you are dead wrong, such as a study showing hands-free cellphones are just as deadly as normal cellphones when used by drivers.

Your inability to deal with reality has been noted several times.

Comment on One last post: the Jim Thorpe 2011 Veterans’ day Parade by Yorkshire

Yorkshire — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:21:40 +0000

I’ve ridden in that Duece and a half to Summer Camp. All 5 hours with no tarp for a roof in July and driven one of thos jeeps.

Comment on The death of CSPT by Sharon

Sharon — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:15:00 +0000

Dana,
I mourn the loss of CSPT, but I have to agree with Eric. Honestly, the site became boring. A couple of days ago, I checked in and there was an argument about Bush v. Gore. Really? At what point do we stop having the same arguments about events that cannot be changed anyway?

I’m still passionate about politics and most of that I leave with short comments on Facebook, which took the place of blogging for me. Real life takes up enough of my time these days that I do not have the time or energy for blogging, and the totally predictable arguments that broke out here made it uninviting.

I applaud your efforts to keep this going, Dana. I hope you enjoy blogging on John’s site and that that site will grow and grow.

Comment on The death of CSPT by CSPT has closed « Truth Before Dishonor

CSPT has closed « Truth Before Dishonor — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:52:07 +0000

[...] by Dana Pico on 2011/11/06 With the closing of my original site, Common Sense Political Thought, I will be blogging on Mr Hitchcock’s [...]

Comment on The death of CSPT by Hoagie

Hoagie — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:15:03 +0000

Holy crap. I go to New York for a day and all hell breaks loose. Imagine my supprise when I get my morning coffee, open my email and find twenty or so messages about CSPT closing. What the?????

So I’ve read your post over and over Dana, along with your email. I’ve read the other commentators replys that were forwarded to me. I can only contribute this: from a business aspect if it ain’t working change the business plan and yes, maybe even the name.

I believe your operative sentence to be; ” I can understand that the Phoenician is simply an ass, but when Perry and Hube can’t get along, maybe a totally free speech site simply cannot work.”

Or perhaps you should have stepped in with Perry and Hube sooner and in private. Perhaps a blog site is not the place to air personal grudges and should not be tolerated. Perhaps when posters find it hard to post without name calling and show a general contempt for anyone who leaves the plantation it’s time to block those posters. Or maybe, just maybe there’s no such thing as “totally free speech”. Perhaps there is a “price” for speech that up till now you didn’t realize must be paid.

I believe the idea of Free Speech is to protect you, me, Pho, Perry, Hube etc. from the Government closing down our speech. It has no bearing on YOUR private site. You can regulate anything you feel is inappropriate. That’s not stopping free speech, that’s civilizing the heard.

CSPT is your baby and you can do with it whatever you wish. Perhaps the time has come for a rebirth, but only if you’ve learned something here. If you decide to be born again, then rise like a Phoenix and start with a clean slate.