Anti-Strib

We've Moved!

2009-06-05T17:45:00.001-05:00

The new blog site is www.anti-strib.com

The RSS feeds shoud be working and most of the bugs have been worked out, mostly.

Under construction, but open for business

2009-05-28T22:26:00.001-05:00

The new island themed Anti-Strib 2.0 is now open. Please go to www.anti-strib.com and register to comment.

It will be a mess for a while but we hope to be pretty functional by next Monday.

The Cooling Off Period

2009-05-27T16:09:00.002-05:00

I can see that some people still don't get what I'm trying to do.

This week was supposed to be a cooling off period. I hope to allow access to the new blog soon and those that don't mind the contstruction can start posting and commenting soon.

For now, note the stories you would like to blog on and we'll get everything up and running next week.

The new site will be at www.anti-strib.com. Right now that link goes right back to here but that will change in the next day or so.

I hope everyone has comepleted their island research. If that is done I suggest some study on time travel and exotic cocktails.

I may open a final insult thread to allow everyone one last therapuetic jab before joining the civilzed people on the new Anti-Strib 2.0 Island.

Too Good To Ignore

2009-05-27T14:06:00.002-05:00

Bacon Flavored Vodka

Is this a great country or what?

Memorial Day

2009-05-25T12:25:00.004-05:00

Anti-Strib 2.0

A sincere thank you to all of the men and women who have served this great nation in any capacity, be it the Armed Services, as a law enforcement officer, fire fighter, EMT first responder, etc.

Most of us serve this country in some fashion, but those who put their lives on the line deserve extra respect and admiration, regardless of their motivation. Freedom is not free, and history has proven time and again that it is not guaranteed. DO NOT take it for granted.

And just for the Anti-Strib community, a special reminder of what we hold so dear:

God bless America.

Anti-Strib 2.0

Anti-Strib 2.0

2009-05-23T11:20:00.000-05:00

Required reading for the Anti-Strib 2.0

Remy De Haenan

The History of Scotch

American Architecture

Wine

Cigars

Russian Literature

OK, just kidding on the last one.

Sayonara Suckers!

2009-05-23T00:36:00.002-05:00

I wish I had time to do an appropriate good bye, but as usual I don’t. I started this a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (Santa Clara County) with a simmering rage at the Red Star for ignoring me and over ½ of Minnesota. (Tim Pawlenty is our governor)

I added some kick ass writers along the way and some clunkers. They are all one and the same, it just depends on the day and the post. I pissed a whole lot of people off and that’s good. You need to have your views challenged if for no other reason than to dust off those rebuttals that you haven’t used in years. For a while we added something to the blogosphere and then one day we didn’t. Time had come for a change.

To quote someone who knew something that few people ever will “We had to kill the village to save it”. The Anti-Strib had to die. The time had come and I knew it. So it shall be.

Thanks for all of the time and effort and even emotion everyone invested in this endeavor. It wouldn’t have been anything without all of you and no one knows that better than me.

And one final note: I have some bad habits and one of them is to get what I want. I got more than I expected from the Anti-Strib and yet somehow a bit less, if that is possible. There were mistakes made that were irreversible. You only learn by doing and if you are doing anything worthwhile you will fuck up. (Eberly’s Rule #1). So with that knowledge I have 2 choices. I can take what I have learned and piss it away like a trillion dollars in an Obama budget, or I can put it to some good use.

I don’t have time for this, I really don’t need this and at times I don't even want it, but sometimes things just need to be done. (you artists should at get that part)

So watch this space for the Anti-Strib 2.0. Re-booted, Re-vamped, yet still reviled. I’ll be back, stronger, meaner, tougher and with much more ammo. The left hasn’t won, nor has the jelly spined "moderate right". I just decided to change the game and up-end the existing apple cart.

No fear, no apologies, no explanations, no regrets. No shit!

Fuck - You

2009-05-22T15:50:00.000-05:00

And continued good health and prosperity to the wife and kids.

Last call

2009-05-22T15:45:00.002-05:00

I have enjoyed being a part of the Anti-Strib crew as a longtime commenter before I was a poster. It always seemed to me that when blogs, especially group authored blogs had moderation, standards and so forth they lacked a certain verisimilitude and authenticity. Anti-Strib had those things, and until recently, even in the comments section under the hottest of disagreements. It may be that as in a democracy, that kind of freedom eventually undermines itself.

I remember one post quite awhile ago, where conservative/libertarian commenters were invited to declaim which tenet of their philosophies were negotiable to them. That's the kind of honest conversation that's hard to have today because rather than agreeing to disagree, it's all about who can throw whom off the bus first.

Even the infamous heathen post had a kind of honesty about it, an honest frustration with political correctness that you seldom see even on conservative blogs.

How I came to post on Anti-Strib: I post on a couple of other blogs and one of them is a blog about telenovelas. I suggested to Tracy that I could post a few of the actresses for HCF and Tracy immediately gave me posting privileges. I didn't really think about doing any other kind of posts but I ended up posting a few times on other hot topics, like the heathen post and on a story about a spike in the price of food. I posted when I wanted my post to be read and commented on, which means a lot to any writer.

Finally, I want to thank the Anti-Strib family for supporting me in the last MOB mayoral election. Although our cause did not prevail we gave them a run for their money.

My Curtain Call

2009-05-22T15:45:00.001-05:00

I was totally shocked the day I sent a not to Tracy suggesting a topic for a post, and received back an e-mail that invited me to become a poster on the Anti-Strib. This year plus a few months has been an interesting, and frustrating time. My use of the English language has always been a problem for me through all of my school years, and on into my military carrier then into civilian life. When I stand up to speak before a group I have few problems, but when asked to put my words to paper lookout.

I cannot understand the left on one main thing. We slapped a few bad guys around and dripped water down the nose of three (3) of the worst of the worst to garner information of possible other attacks or how to find their leaders. After 7 years of no further attacks we are now looking at this administration trying to make what was done illegal. Yet they will stand up and scream if any one even thinks to make abortion on demand a thing of the past. Talk about total hypocrisy. It’s ok to kill millions of unborn babies for no reason at all but oh my god don’t even think of roughing up some terrorist scum that just took part in a plan that killed over 3000 of our countrymen.

The President of the United States made a speech yesterday talking about how we all share the same values. Well guess what we do not! I value human life, I value freedom from government control, and I value this country to much to sit back and listen to the radical ideas from the liberal left of how they are going to remake America. During his run for office the then Senator Obama called for a rewriting of the bill of rights. Well guess what he is trying to do that right now with legislation. It is not the job of the President to decide how a company will be run or by whom, but here we go he fires the CEO of GM and forces crystal into bankruptcy.

The Constitution tells us how much, AND how little power the government has in its grasp. Here we sit each day listening to Swamp boy, and Fiddler tell us how we are now irrelevant, and that the constitution means whatever the hell they say it means. Then we throw in Odin with his ideas of 100% confiscation level tax laws. Why? Well according to them our study of the founding documents are all wrong, and we just are confused. Fiddler you will be surprised as to how few judges are with you when you claim that the constitution is only a frame work that can be bent, and warp willy nilly. There is only two legitimate ways to change the constitution. The amendment process and a constitutional congress.
There is nothing written in any of the founding documents that allow a unelected judge (a single person) to totally change how the document is written or to change how its words are interpreted. Words have meaning you know so does punctuation. As you all have vigorously pointed out several times to me.

I am not a loon or a nutty righty. I am an American an independent person with freewill, and the ability to choose how I will live my life. It is not now nor has it ever been the Governments job or responsibility to tell me or decide for me how or where or even why I do something, and I will not sit here when I see the Government leading this country in the wrong direction. I started this post as My Curtain Call just remembers on curtain will fall but another will raise up. When that curtain raises I will be standing there ready to take up the fight again. Goodbye and good luck to my friends and antagonist we shall meet again some where some time we shall meet again.

Tracy Thank you for letting me post under your roof its been fun

Farewell, Friends

2009-05-22T12:31:00.002-05:00

I am terrible with good byes. So, I'm borrowing some of my favorite farewell quotes to help say what I'd like to when words fail me as they sometimes do.

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
-- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, translated from French

May you always have work for your hands to do.
May your pockets hold always a coin or two.
May the sun shine bright on your windowpane.
May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you.
And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
~Irish Blessing

You and I will meet again,
When we're least expecting it,
One day in some far off place,
I will recognize your face,
I won't say goodbye my friend,
For you and I will meet again.
-- Tom Petty

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
-- Dr. Seuss

And my very favorite, written by one of my favorite comedians of all time, that really says it all for me:

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
-- Gilda Radner

And lastly:

I will miss this place. I will miss it because you were here.
-- Marcia

Until We Meet Again

2009-05-22T10:40:00.001-05:00

I hate goodbyes…and ESPECIALLY the famous Minnesota goodbye that starts about 30 minutes before someone actually leaves, which is why I have waited so long to make this post.

A few years ago, 6 or more (?) ago, I got on the internet and though I’d see what the “blogging” thing was all about, and it didn’t take me long before I was hooked. One of the sites that grabbed my attention the most of the Anti-Strib.

In the very beginning I enjoyed the debate that occurred at the AS. I enjoyed seeing the view points of both other conservatives as well as liberals. I enjoyed the mostly respectable discussions…but then a few years ago, that started to change.

There is no one side to blame on this, but now thoughtful discussions have been replaced with name calling. Debates have been replaced with snide remarks, and in short, the blog become more and more disgusting to me over time.

Then, about a year ago, I changed jobs and posting from work became problematic, and commenting wasn’t ease either. So I would go home, read the posts, read the comments, and get ready to insert my .02 worth, but by the time I got into the comments, most of the threads were already so far into the sewer that I simply didn’t want to get involved…which is where I still find myself today.

I am going to miss the Anti-Strib, and I am going to miss most of the people on it, but I am also waking away with a new set of friends that I hope will keep in contact with where ever our life travels take us.

As for where I am going to end up…I don’t know. I don’t have the time or the energy to start a new blog of my own, so perhaps I will troll the net looking for the next conservative blog to latch onto for a while, and maybe in time, ask to be a poster for them.

So, for me, this isn’t a good bye, for me, this is, until we meet again.

Everyone have a safe and fun holiday weekend, and be well.

Hot Chick Friday - random hot chicks

2009-05-22T09:30:00.001-05:00

Random sampling of Hot Chick for this FINAL Hot Chick Friday on the Anti-Strib.

THe end.

HCF:Last Latin American Novela Star: Gaby Espino

2009-05-22T09:08:00.002-05:00

Can't believe I didn't put her up before but I did a search on all my previous Latin American telenovela star posts on HCF and she doesn't come up. This Venezuelan actress has appeared in a telenovela every year since the late 90s. Amazingly, she was never a "Miss Venezuela." She's a been in many commercials (she's one of the Pantene Pro-V girls) and was a calendar girl for the National beer of Venezuela, Polar (currently under threat of being nationalized by Hugo Chavez). Viva las Venezolanas! Viva la Venezuela libre!

Well What To Say...

2009-05-21T23:18:00.002-05:00

I suppose I should get this out before Duce shuts off the lights....

What can I say about this dysfunctional little "family" of whackos? I first discovered this joint about 4 or 4 1/2 years ago and while the posting style back then didn't match mine, I understood the frustrations of the writers and I stuck around. Then at the Tax Cut Rally 3 years ago, I ran into Duce, SharkBait and Sequel (was Brent there that day Duce? I don't remember - getting old stinks!). We chatted for a while and eventually went our separate ways. I still hung out, mostly as a commenter but after a while, I started sending Sequel stories for his "Why Islam Sucks" series. After sending him something like 10-12 stories he simply emailed me back and said "why don't you post it yourself?" and the invite to join the crazy crew came shortly thereafter.

Since then I have come to know most of the contributors (except for those added in the last year and a half while I was in the process of moving) as the passionate and not so politically correct people you see before you today. They are not perfect, but then again no one is. What they - what we all are is very simple. We are a bunch of folks who care passionately about the country and while we don't agree on everything (or much in some cases) we were able to discuss it amongst our selves and when necessary agree to disagree. Yeah Ed had issues with our "why Islam Sucks" series and Kermit and I had issues with his "Why God Sucks" or what ever he called it that day - we all attempted to get along.

I have to admit that over the last year I have not been contributing as much - especially after I got my new job out here in Utah. Work and getting the house settled and remodeling done has left little time for writing at my own blog let alone any of my other "homes" but I still managed to sneak in and lurk from time to time.

While I will greatly miss this place I do understand Duce's reasons for shutting the doors and I respect his decision. To Aunty, Moon, Ed, Harlan and A Non Y Mouse - I truly wish we could have met...especially Ed. I know we didn't agree on much Ed, but you were a rare liberal - one who could intelligently express and defend your position. I can appreciate that! If you all are ever in Utah - look me up and we'll head out for a drink somewhere.

To Duce, Sequel, Margaret and the rest of the reprobates on the crew - mi casa es su casa! If you are ever out this way you will have a cot to sleep on and you are more than welcome.

Oh and Duce - I think it is time to end this beast with one heck of a summer blow out bash! If you do - let me know when and I will lift a toast here in Utah toward the east in honor of the good times we have shared!

C YA!

I Couldn't Come Up With A Title

2009-05-21T19:41:00.000-05:00

I had planned on ripping and shredding the various and many versions of moonbats and other assorted loons that have cluttered the ledges and shit on everything here like so many stupid pigeons but why bother? I know they suck ass and are hardly worthy of the sacrifice of men and women better than they can ever hope to be but my satisfaction is I am convinced they know it too. They understand their ideology is flawed but they have invested in it and few have the courage to admit they are wrong.
I have no idea how we are supposed to reason with these fellow citizens when I firmly believe their policies and ideals will destroy this nation. I cannot in good conscience laugh with them when I know for a fact they would just as soon see me and all who think like me disappear. I won't disappear and I will not go quietly into the night. I will and must fight the creeping pestilence that is liberalism today as surely as I would fight the advance of any entity out to destroy the nation I love.
So libs, give it your best attempt because when the shit hits the fan you will be finished and then perhaps we can throw your shitty ideology on the dung pile of history once and for all.

Duce, Thanks for everything and I publicly apologize for my part in the creation of your attitude and bad feelings. I should've bailed from here long ago.
To all the other posters, Live long and prosper!
Auntie, you are not a loon!

To all the conservatives who may read this, I wish you good luck, good love and a good life.

All you liberals can lick me where I poop!

Damn!

2009-05-21T18:50:00.003-05:00

I just read one of the more interesting (in the strange-interesting sort of way) things I've read in a while. When asked the question of what were you doing and how did you feel on 9-11, the response was, (and I'm paraphrasing) 'when I got home the T.V was on and my brother and a friend were on the couch glued to the footage. I was glad to have the company...' Damn! Talk about sorrow in ones existence....

Be Prepared!

2009-05-21T14:48:00.003-05:00

Odin and the rest who insisted on calling us Zombies: I bet you become pro-Gun when the shit hits the fan!!!

Before and After

2009-05-21T14:36:00.003-05:00

What Anti-Strib has done to the most innocent of us all...

Before

After

FANG: BAD ASS PUPPY TRASH!!!
model supplied by Il Duce;
tongue graciously supplied by Gene Simmons (without permission);
sick, twisted mind supplied by auntypsychotic

My lastest Antistribber Post with UPDATE!!!

2009-05-21T14:09:00.003-05:00

I are has been told I gots poor communication skills, so I's jest gonna say adios, folks. Like I says afore, three years past it were fun. Nowadays, not so much.
Best wishes to all.
And yes, my real name are Kermit.

OK, So in the comments Duce has prodded me into making a real statement, so here it is, my Anti-Strib valedictory.

The most prevalent type of warfare man has prosecuted throughout history has been ideological warfare. Which King is predominant, which religion is "true", which political philosophy is most effective (or beneficial). The common theme in all of this drama, suffering and conquest has been belief. Conviction. Even, dare I say it, faith.

What has been waged on this space for many, many years is ideological warfare. Faith is a strange thing. Conservatives generally embrace it. Liberals deny usually deny it, but cling to it nonetheless. Ideology is the underpinning of what we see ourselves as being. It is the unspoken essence of what we speak, both in public and to ourselves.

Some of us take ourselves very seriously, and in so doing often fail at the most critical requirement of communication: understanding. Strike that. MOST of us are guilty of this inadequacy.

There are always casualties in war. In the current version of ideological war in America, this blog has fallen. War often seems futile, and many times it is. But ideology is never futile. It is an essential component of the thinking person. It is the definition of all that is learned, all that is hoped for. And it is worth fighting for.

I will try to carry on the conversation (albeit in a much more well-mannered tone) at www.ideologicalwar.blogspot.com after this site goes down. This will be my first post there. Thank you all for everything you've given. It's been an honor and a privilege to post here.

The Admirals Farewell

2009-05-21T12:06:00.001-05:00

We've had last call, now it's time to clear out so Duce can turn the lights out and lock up. Anti-Strib is closing. A lot of good memories here, but we're at the point where its time to go our own way. There's nothing left to do.

It's sad. Kind of like reading the final words in the last chapter of a good book. Some of us are still writing our own books, and others may start. As with all books, eventually, there's a final chapter.

I'll miss Anti-Strib. I've been a contributer here for 3 years and consider it an honor and a privilege. Thank you for having me, Duce.

This short, 32 second video says all that needs to be said. Take care.

Hot Chick Thursday - celebrating the HOT CHICK FRIDAY classics

2009-05-21T10:21:00.001-05:00

It was November 6, 2005. Late Fall in Minnesota. We needed something to keep us warm. Our wishes came true when two Carolina Panther cheerleaders decided it wasn't enough to just get drunk in a Tampa Bay bar, but that they should take up a rowdy sex session in a bathroom stall in said bar. And then get into a brawl with a joyless woman that didn't like the fact that they were loving it up in that stall. Two more posts regarding these feisty, lady loving cheerleaders were put up that week and the beast was born. Many backroom discussions and emails floated around and we decided that we need some hot chicks to spice up the blog. And boy, let me tell you...a spicing they did.

Five days later, it was this post that changed the Anti-strib forever. The FSU cowgirls put us on the map as THE premier site that mixed politics, pop culture, entertainment, comedy, islam sucking, and hot chicks. Since then, we've put up hundreds of Hot Chick Friday posts...some stellar posts and some in dire need of sammiches. Sure, we've tweeked the format here and there, put up rules, and some have taken to telling the hot chicks' stories in each post. It even spawned copycats...We had one person that created "Hot Male Mondays" in response to HCF.

But the Anti-strib wasn't done. We really kicked it into high gear with this post. For nearly two years, we garnered more hits on this post than any other in our history. And for good reason - Kari Byron is goddamn hot. Geeky hot. And that's a good thing. We experienced a major surge in traffic as a result of Ms. Byron, so for that, and her hotness, she was dubbed the very first Anti-Strib Hottest Hot Chick award winner.

In the end, HOT CHICK FRIDAY became a staple in the local blogosphere. And I'm damn proud to have been a part of it. We've had detractors that hated it-they pissed and moaned about our oggling women, hell we even had some folks internally that incessantly whined to the HDIC (Head Douche in Charge) about the posts. So to those that didn't like HCF - bite me. Hot chicks kick ass, and if you don't like hot chicks, you're not right in the head. To those that did like it and religiously supported it, THANK YOU. It was all for you guys and gals that kept coming back for it.

Repost: BOOBIES!!!!!!

2009-05-21T00:11:00.002-05:00

I had to post this one again, just to go with the perky pair of hooters.

In Parting, a couple of small thoughts...

2009-05-21T00:01:00.003-05:00

I knew this was coming, the cold wind of change hung onto the backside of the warm spring breezes and the smell of both thawed decay and rebirth hung in the traces of humidity. We packed the car - just the last essential sundries – under the cyclical illumination and hum of the alley light, best time to get going is when there’s few others on the road; 2:45 a.m. no ifs, ands, or buts. Meanwhile, bath robed armchair pontificants type out their vision of the human experience. This is the root of the problem that I have with the entire blogging experience – experience and anecdotes are predominantly minimized – blogs and the technical age are the death of oral tradition, the passage of experiential wisdoms, the death of relaying ones tales of tragedy and heartbreak to the future in the vain hope that an effective cautionary tale may prevent the pains of the past from recurring.
I’ve not been a regular contributor in post form; so-fucking-what. Y’all don’t want to hear it, y’all don’t care, and y’all are experiential vultures. I COULD have told the tale of spending 24 hours with two truckers from Ghana and their take on colonialism, not to mention the ramifications on national unity in a nation of 52 dialects and how that is the surest way of maintaining division between neighbors – but fuck it, the only response is rote recitation of textbook evil in colonialism. . I could have related the tales of how welfare fraud is a very efficient machine – common, effortless and in many ways and industry in and of itself. Why? Y’all have your notions and selective pride in ignorance that you feel the need to defend to your dying breath. I COULD have brought up the idea that every and all Liberalistic policy decisions are a direct effort to kill and/or control the release valves of the ‘little man’ that they supposedly defend…but why? Your learned theories trump any and all of my experiences; I must be sheltered from myself if I’m to travel the true road of enlightenment. Sound ridiculous? Yah, well so are your opinions of my experiences.

I would wish upon all that you go out and experience as opposed to castigating the experience of others, but why? Y’all seem to dig the comfort of observing instead of experiencing – and I am deeply saddened for you. I’m just a titch empathic that way. I’m as saddened for those who have chosen to stop experiencing – though I do have great respect and understanding for you and why you’ve chosen to stop. Sometimes the gore and sadness is a bit too much to bear and the greatest desire for the afterlife is pure silence – you’ve earned it. To the detractors of experience however, I have nothing but the purest form of refined contempt for you. Pissants. Pussies. Pud munching sycophantic tools are you.
Who am I to say these things? I am no one, no-body, and everyman that has a great deal of simmering contempt for ‘theorists’. And I'm drunk. I have been; I have performed a number of roles, I have held a number of positions, am a screaming substance abuser, a medicant extraordinaire if you will; a point of true humor for me, those who choose to mock a diverse and dysfunctional background in the name of a better and truer understanding of salvation from the dark and degenerate - a man who has done EVERYTHING WRONGLY, and still managed to pull off a comfortable average Midwestern lifestyle with fantastic perks..."I" need to be lectured by "You"',really?

I just need to be shown the road to personal salvation…Y’all really crack me clean the fuck up. Pull your head out of the hypothetical ass and start allowing danger to determine your fate and decisions. Danger, failure and looking like a fool are NOT things to be avoided or protected from – these circumstances present themselves to be embraced, not avoided…I mock you for not having the balls to willingly and ably drag your own dicks through the dirt to test your abilities. Maybe you have not because of your comfort level in simulacra- it’s not for me to come to grips with, it’s ALL YOU BABY!
This experience has been candy. I come away from this with a palm-full of good relationships – therefore beyond value – and a few tertiary relationships that I’m damned comfortable with and wouldn’t mind taking further - the rest can go fuck yourselves. Kiss my ass, good-bye and feel free to stay in your dark, dank corner where you have rooted and thrive, away from the productive in this experience the rest of us have the balls to partake in and label as ‘human’.

A Perky Little Pair of Hooters

2009-05-20T14:26:00.003-05:00

Don't you just want to play with 'em?