zappaman ROCKS

[rbrnmw]

[SunSeeker]

1. Yes indeed.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

2. I agree.

You rock too...!

[rbrnmw]

3. thanks

so do you

[yardwork]

4. Agreed!

[bravenak]

5. Obviously!!!!

[bunnies]

6. "ok"

[George II]

7. BOOM, or should I say ZAPP!

[Starry Messenger]

8. In so manny ways!

[Cha]

12. ..

[Bobbie Jo]

9. Yes!!

Love me some zappaman!!

[bettyellen]

10. TOTALLY!!! So glad we ended up on the same ignore list!

[Cha]

11. He nails it so many times it's scary in a good way!

Mahalo rbr!

[Ed Suspicious]

13. Ok.

[MannyGoldstein]

14. WOOT!

Er, wait...

[kath]

22. Warren, did you see

this oh-so-cutesy, clever post:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251862237#post12 (post 12)?

yeah, he really ROCKS. (Lovely responses to that post, too)

[Warren DeMontague]

23. That's not cool.

the fucking drama around here is lame, and frankly I wish everyone would cut the shit. Used to be "making DU suck" was supposed to be verboten, in some fashion.

One of these days the primaries are gonna be over--- the pathetic people whose empty lives revolve around nursing their little gossipy grudge gardens and playing stupid meta games around what is, after all, a fucking message board, people will continue to do that shit because, really, what else do they have to do with their time?--

but the rest of us, particularly those of us who genuinely care BOTH about electing Democrats and advancing real progress and freedom and vision in our country's political life- will need to come together in some sort of fashion for the 2016 presidential election.

This shit isn't helping.

That's not directed to anyone in particular, or any "side". I like Zappa, AND I like Willy. Doesn't mean I agree with everything that comes out of their mouths, nor does it need to.

Shit, I like most of the people here, even the ones who sometimes seem unhealthily obsessed with hating the other ones, or me for that matter. Although fuck a duck, sometimes I wonder why I bother.

Like I've got time for this shit.

[kath]

24. is the ROCKIN' zappaman a denizen of the Hillary Cave?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[joshcryer]

31. They wouldn't let me join. :(

Apparently a prerequisite to be a Clinton supporter is to be a Sanders hater. (This is true for some Sanders supporters as well, but I don't know of a Sanders site that won't let you join if you don't loathe Clinton.)

They will have to completely purge all of those posts if they want to go mainstream if Clinton wins.

[Cha]

68. No, that's not true, josh. The prerequisite is to be a Hillary Supporter.

[joshcryer]

72. It is possible to support Clinton...

...and Sanders, if you can believe it.

[Cha]

73. I believe you can and whomever else. Just not in my case.

[joshcryer]

76. Apparently not in that sites case either.

[Cha]

77. ..

[betsuni]

70. Not true. I'm a member and I'm not a Sanders hater or a Clinton lover.

I'm a Democrat.

[rbrnmw]

26. I post in the Hillary group on DU

Are you comparing that with a Conservative site?

[rbrnmw]

29. i pay attention but I am not here every single minute

[ismnotwasm]

84. As opposed to the Facebook hate page

Or the PM posse bridgade?

How's it going with those two groups? Oh, and that yahoo thing.. That?

[joshcryer]

30. I dislike immensely the charged AA rhetoric.

I don't know why people keep doubling down on it. It's tiresome and unhelpful and no one seems to give a fuck.

I applaud that zappaman called it out and am shocked it wasn't hidden (as of this post anyhow).

[Warren DeMontague]

37. There's probably not a single person here who I agree with 100% of the time, incl. myself

Still, name calling and personal attacks- not cool.

Since that's apparently what prompted this thread, Im gonna reiterate that I like zappaman AND willyt, and them self-delete my participation here except for this and one other post where i laid out exactly how I feel.

[joshcryer]

39. Fair enough, but just so you know...

...zappaman has nearly kicked that Stockholm thread daily since it was posted. It's not like something anyone could miss. The poster still won't self delete even though they could easily do so at any time.

[Warren DeMontague]

40. And if we made a list of all the really fucking offensive things people have said in GDP

It would be a long-ass list, a good chunk of it comprised of frothy incoherent bargle about sanders supporters being racist white supremacist dudebro mac user volvo driving libertarian hippies who love ayn rand while paradoxically being communist sympathizers.

I was called a rand paul republican by some teenage blogger who seemingly failed out of her community college creative writing class, and some people thought it was the funniest fucking shit in the world. That's what I get for 3 adult decades of unfailingly supporting my god-damn party, over 10 of them here.

Yes, we can all get good and offended, no question. Why not.

There are things that were said- im sure still being said- about DU members on that "other site" which could make your nose hairs curl. Lovely, lovely and classy, people!

If willyt said something that someone didn't like, okay, add him to the list.

There are ways to address it without name calling.

[Cha]

54. And, that is but one example of why zappa is so appreciated. mahalo josh

[kath]

33. So, looking now at the time stamps on posts, sure looks like rbnrw started this thread as a direct

response to zappaman's post #12 in that thread I linked.

Cute.
Is someone now going to continue the assholery and pat rbnrw on the back for *his*cutesy cleverness in patting zappaman on the back for his?

What a lovely bunch.

[joshcryer]

35. It's a direct response to Manny's thread.

Which is hyping up WillyT despite that a lot of AA posters have a serious issue with some of his posts.

[kath]

41. No, it's a direct response to zappaman calling WillyT a "sexist, homophobic moron", but doing it in

a cutesy, clever enough way that he didn't get a hide: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251862237#post12
But clearly a bunch of the more obnoxious Hillarians got the cutesy jab, because they all came round to chime in on the name-calling post. Perhaps they put out the bat signal in their cesspool Hillary Cave, 'cuz a bunch of them showed up.

[joshcryer]

53. Sure, they waited for the right opportunity.

zappaman managed not to get a hide (so far anyway). So guess what happens in this polarized atmosphere (and yes, Manny's thread was polarizing and I commented about that in his thread yesterday, so I am not bandwagoning here, I am consistent on this issue; despite your cheeky comment that I somehow joined in this thread an hour later).

Guess what? I don't have to be for Hillary to defend the AA posters who are regularly slammed here by these terrible terrible threads rallying to support clearly antagonistic comments. It's out of a sense of common damn decency.

But if WillyT's stuff gets to stay and the hosts won't do their job and get rid of meta, I'm happy to support zappaman in his endeavors calling it exactly what it is. And yes, it's decent to call it what it is.

[Cha]

56. Yes it is.. most Decent to call it out for what it is.

[rbrnmw]

55. No it wasn't

I have never heard of Hillary Cave. I literally don't know what you mean unless you are talking about the Hillary Clinton group on DU

[kath]

42. And your response to zappaman's post was " I literally snorted all over myself. I need a new shirt,

, haha, holy shit." ( on edit - which was posted a full hour before you came to this thread and said it was all about the "charged AA rhetoric" etc.)

Classy. Real classy.

[joshcryer]

50. I did.

I literally did a spit take.

Big deal? I am against the Stockholm thread and for zappaman's relentless efforts to keep it from sinking to the nethers. Have a problem with that? I support DU's AA posters. zappaman supports DU's AA posters. DU's AA posters are against that BS rhetoric and people rallying around it. So what? I'm against it. I have principles.

And I have no problem with zappaman calling it exactly what it is.

[Number23]

95. ...

[rbrnmw]

61. I'm not a he

I am a female

[kath]

89. Sorry. I usually use s/he when I don't know a poster's gender, but it was the wee hours and I

slipped up. I hate the use of the generic "he" and really wish we had a gender-neutral pronoun.
Apologies.

[rbrnmw]

90. It's all good

[SidDithers]

16. Yup...

Sid

[ismnotwasm]

17. He sure enough does

K&R



To a master!

[PeaceNikki]

18. I'm honored to be in the "group" with him.

He plays that accordion like a fucking madman!

[Cha]

19. zappa!

[betsuni]

20. K&R!

[Number23]

21. I so agree!!!

[kath]

34. Of course you do.

[Number23]

36. Your annoyance somehow, makes all of this even sweeter.

Yum.

[darkangel218]

38. If you think we care, you're fooling yourself lol

[Number23]

94. Glad you already used the yellow cookoo eye rolley man. Saves me the trouble of using him myself

But the dude is still very much applicable to your pointless and weird post.

You obviously do care. Or else you wouldn't be in this thread. Posting inanities, and aggressive ones at that.

[Cha]

44. I know, huh? Like who the hell asked her?

[akbacchus_BC]

27. This is so amusing! Wasn't he after an older person

who is a reporter and he got kudos from a shit site for molesting her?

[Cha]

43. What the hell are you even talking about, akbacchus?

[DisgustipatedinCA]

45. I don't know anything about that. But I do know that he used his host position

...in a way it should not have been used.

[darkangel218]

51. +1

[rbrnmw]

57. What are you talking about?

[NCTraveler]

46. Zappaman rocks.

Zappa doesn't suffer fools, racists, bigots or sexists. They also found a really simple way to show who is attacking the left, from the right.

[rbrnmw]

59. Exactly

Why does everything have to be a conspiracy?

[Cha]

74. +1000000

[AOR]

87. You say...

"Zappa doesn't suffer fools, racists, bigots or sexists."

Oh really ? How does "Zappaman" feel about the homeless, the poor, the degraded, the downtrodden, and those down on their luck ?

You also say... "They also found a really simple way to show who is attacking the left, from the right."

Oh the irony in such a statement.

mirror image definition --an image or object that is identical in form to another, but with the structure reversed, as in a mirror.

[NCTraveler]

88. Ask zappa.

" How does "Zappaman" feel about the homeless, the poor, the degraded, the downtrodden, and those down on their luck ? "

I think you should ask zappa.

[AOR]

92. No... YOU should ask Zappa...

I already know the answer. The depths of the hypocrisy are breathtaking.

[leftofcool]

47. Yep!

[treestar]

48. Yeah!

[randome]

49. So many rocks!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Aspire to inspire.[/center][/font][hr]

[darkangel218]

52. Bwahahahhahahahaha!!!!

A lot of rocks, indeed..

[Cha]

58. Yeah, there's those "rocks" and there's people who really do rock 'cause they're capable of telling

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it like it is on DU and lucky enough not to get a hide for it.

[darkangel218]

60. !

[randome]

63. You don't need to be 'lucky' to avoid a hide. Good communication skills help, though.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Aspire to inspire.[/center][/font][hr]

[Cha]

66. Sometimes you do. I've seen bogus hides.

[randome]

82. Random jury means random results. It happens.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Aspire to inspire.[/center][/font][hr]

[Cha]

86. It's a crap shoot.

[rbrnmw]

69. Like zappaman does on the regular

[Cha]

71. Yeah, and a

lucky dawg for truth!

[rbrnmw]

75. I know

[ProfessorGAC]

62. Zappaman Is Mad At Me!

Just kiddin', but he was most distressed that i once i had breakfast with Frank in Germany. He thinks that because he's a bigger fan it should have been him!
Nah! Z is one of my guys!

[rbrnmw]

64. zappaman likes my kind of music

Public Enemy and Queen Latifah

[tammywammy]

65. Agree, zappaman is one of my favorite posters here

[Iliyah]

67. Zapp Rocks!

[MeNMyVolt]

78. Yep.

[greatauntoftriplets]

79. That he does.

[pintobean]

80. The zappa

[zappaman]

81. Thanks but this thread is bitter sweet...

If Clinton wins the primary, we will be losing DUers in this thread.
I suggest if that happens, this thread becomes a tribute to them.

[ismnotwasm]

83. That so very kind of you!

Another example of not only how much you rock, but how well you rock the house...

[Gothmog]

85. Agreed

[AOR]

91. Aww..is this a tribute to a DU legend...?

If that's the case I don't really know what to say but to repeat some fond platitudes - that have been uttered by the multitudes - in glorious celebration of such a legendary and righteous "beacon of the left."

So then... Mahalo !!! Namaste !!! All You Need Is Love !!! Don't worry Zappa has our back !!! Zappa Rawks !!!! Compassion !!! Empathy !!!!




Funny thing about legend worship though. Sometimes things are not quite as they seem and the illusion put forth by the worshipers doesn't match the reality of the legend. With that in mind...a few words below from the legend and some of the legends neighbors showing some of the fondest human compassion and empathy for their fellow brothers and sisters.


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"Also, for homeless people living on the streets, they really don't take care of their "home." There's litter, filth, human waste, and garbage all around their "living quarters." How we can respect them when they don't even respect themselves? Get them in a shelter or get them off the streets. Life isn't fair, homeless losers. Get over it. I'm tired of walking around you."


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"I get my coffee every morning at the Cafe Collage and they did indeed remove the tables because it was getting out of the hand. Some days you literally had to push your way through the homeless hanging out, smoking weed, pissing round the corner and asking for handouts.

That was where I had a guy tell me he was "gonna get me some money and come back and f@ck you up". I asked him "why not f@ck me up now?" and he stumbled away muttering.

I can hold my own, but it makes me wonder how many tourists and smaller people get hit on by these losers.

It also smelt like piss every morning.

They had to get rid of the seating outside and I'm glad they did."

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"It's not an emergency when you choose to live in an RV or on the streets.

16 years on the street is a lifestyle decision, not an emergency.

Furthermore, "People that want to live and abide by the law, if only they could" is also wrong.

The whole point of the recent whining by the VDs and their enablers is that they are upset they are no longer getting away with breaking the law like they have been for years. They have no desire to "abide by the law" and only want to change it so they can continue leeching off the goodwill of Venetians."

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"Thank you for agreeing that one of the reasons the gutter punks prefer the streets is that they can be high and not have to follow rules."

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"My car was broken into last July for the first time in 25 years.

Stole CDs, change, and a bottle of mouthwash from the glove compartment.

Obviously, we are talking about transient losers looking for simple items to trade for drugs.

Hope you get some of your stuff back and maybe invest in a dog, alarm system, or a nice weapon.

At some point, these losers will get emboldened and try something on someone they shouldn't.

My dog silently prays they hop my fence..."

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My thoughts on the homeless....

The availability of marijuana is why these fuckers are here? Are you kidding me?

They're here because they can steal our *#!%$! and get away with it.

They're here because our VNC seems to believe that Venice is some fairy tale land where gumdrops rain from the sky, kittens run freely, and the no-good, wannabe-homeless criminals have a right to make Venice their own personal shithole because "hey, they're people too".

Until they start getting their asses tossed in jail once in a while and word gets out that Venice isn't gonna tolerate their bullshit anymore, these gutter punks will just continue lowering the living standards in our community.

Amazing how some people just don't get it."

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"These people need to be removed!

Tents on the street? where are the cops?

If they want tent city go out to the mountains

Time to clear the human garbage off the streets and make these jerks earn their keep instead of giving it to them

Want to feed homeless do it at the shelter not the beach

Want a place to keep your stuff, buy it or rent it. Leaving it on the street means you don't want it anymore, it is trash to be removed!

Don't give me that NIMBY sh*t it has been in my backyard (our backyards!) only and no where else

You want to help the homeless...so do I

I would like to help them get out of this community."

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"And arrest them once in a while. Put these gutter punks in jail for a couple of nights and let them know their *#!%$! will no longer be tolerated in Venice. It's disgusting out there now. Signs aren't gonna do much and good luck getting Venice merchants to stop selling single beers. They make a boatload of money doing so."

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All quotes from the legend and the legend's merry crew of loving and compassionate neighbors can be found here along with dozens of others showing such admirable traits in the fight for social justice.

http://www.yovenice.com/forum/


We report you decide on the wonders of such a legendary crusader for social justice, compassion, and equality. Imfao

"Mahalo" and Namaste indeed.

[wendylaroux]

93. what a guy!

thanks for this info AOR.

Kind of already knew it,from his pompous posts.snob.

[darkangel218]

97. OMG..

I wasn't aware of those posts.. Holy shit....

[MannyGoldstein]

102. Another I've-got-mine 'Democrat' nt

[hrmjustin]

103. Who are you referring too?

[Capt. Obvious]

104. Not in the least surprised

That's why he rocks though amirite?

[rhett o rick]

96. Does he actually post OP's? nm

[pintobean]

99. Why yes, he does. Does that matter somehow?

It seems like you would have mastered the advanced search feature by now.

[rhett o rick]

100. LOL, that's why I asked the question. But I can see how it might not matter

to those who hide from discussing issues but choose to limit themselves to ad hominem attacks.

Oklahoma has a major problem with fracking. It is destroying their water supply and causing hundreds of earthquakes. H. Clinton thinks that fracking is ok because it makes big profits for corporations and they in turn support her foundation, her campaign and her personal goal to acquire wealth. So why won't HRC supporters discuss fracking? 1. They don't care about the damage to the 99%. 2. They are totally ambivalent to what she stands for. 3. They think that corporations are the mother they never had.

[darkangel218]

105. +1!

[Gothmog]

98. Kicking

[hrmjustin]

101. Love him!

[bettyellen]

106. He rocks so hard! Did he go somewhere?