Another "Ramblings" update then on to other things

The most recent post over at "Ramblings" helps confirm that Fran doesn't have more than a rudimentary clue about the oil economy. Big oil company profits when the price of oil spikes supposedly indicates that the war in Iraq was the idea of the oil companies. I wonder how the face of the nation would change if voters had to get a passing grade on an oil economy test? Could Dennis Kucinich get a single vote?

The bad content remains the secondary issue with this blog, however. The outstanding problem remains the nutty handling of commentary. I think I've figured out what it takes to have a comment stick, however, by using a carefully graduated string of responses. Red will indicate that the post was removed. Green will indicate apparent acceptance of the comment.

I remain curious about tension between letting the Iraqis settle things themselves and sending in foreign peacekeepers who are not us (U.S.). I'm also sincerely interested in any plausible evidence that apologizing is a useful foreign policy technique.
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Apparently too inflammatory, so I went for something shorter more along the lines of objective reporting the next time.

Democrats in Congress would have tabled Kucinich's bill if not for Republican support.
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Not the kind of truth Fran wants in front of the eyes of her readers, evidently.
I decided to drift to the other side of neutrality.

What a nice post.
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Bingo! It's been up ever since (and remains as of this writing).


I didn't sink to facetiousness, either. Fran's post was a respectful and relatively even-handed entry about a war memorial. Unfortunately the blog remains crap, on balance.

Maybe it'll improve with time (cue Wayne Campbell's infamous phrase).