Archive of entries posted on 13th February 2008

LOL? Doubtful

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IMAO has had a lot more trolls lately, but I have really done much with them. I thought I’d point one out because I found it both interesting and entertaining. This is from “jugger” to my editorial yesterday about punching hippies:

lol, punching those conservatives is fun, try it today damn those conservative hippies, and most know exactly why you do it and help to crush them…uh huh, living with conservative extremeists is bad for your health, punch one today, LMAO

I’ve noticed this with particularly stupid drive by trolls (usually late to the party) is the overuse of “LOL” and its variations — usually directed at what they themselves are saying. Why do I get the feeling that those trying to convince us so hard they are “laughing out loud” are probably seething in primitive anger? Trolling is actually an expression of anger — an impotent lashing out at opinions the troll disagrees with — so its hard to buy that one of them is laughing while writing. Well… I could see one nervously twittering while writing something like that. What the abbreviation for nervously twittering out loud?

Obama Courts the Hispanic Vote

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AUSTIN (AP) – Ahead of the critically important Texas primaries, presidential hopeful Barack Obama is pulling out all the stops to court the state’s Hispanic voters, which make up 25% of the population and which have traditionally supported Hillary Clinton.

“Screw Whitey! Vote for me!… No offense there, honky…”

Obama recently launched a series of ads targeting Hispanics which he hopes will win him friends. In one he speaks of dark-skinned commonality, saying “Brown and black share a long history of American oppression and we are brothers in our suffering, even though you beaners never had to do the slavery thing, and white people don’t keep stealing your music and pretending like they invented it.”
To further attract his target audience, the commercials contain clips of Obama speaking Spanish, although his heavy repetition of the phrase “el hope-o del change-o” was actually found to be a turn-off by some focus groups.
Obama’s campaign director, Mark Alexander, admitted that they faced an uphill battle in Texas.
“It won’t be easy,” conceded Alexander. “Hispanics are a superstitious lot and many of them fear that if they don’t vote for ‘La Diabla’, she will use her witching powers to visit misfortune upon their families. However, we believe that Obama’s clean articularity will coax these people away from the Home Depot parking lot long enough to vote on March 4th.”