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TheUptightMidwesterner
10/09/09

In reply to Michele Bachmann Calls MSNBC Anchors "Stalkers"
This woman thinks SHE is being stalked? I swear, she could make Jesus put out a restraining order against her.
I want to stalk her across the face with a copy of the Constitution.
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Trulymadlyme
10/08/09

In reply to Michele Bachmann Calls MSNBC Anchors "Stalkers"
This is going to somewhat controversial but the whole use of "stalker" when it's clearly not the case?

See that big bad man. He keeps asking me questions! He won't stop!

There is this severely fucked up undercurrent of playing the helpless female, damsel in distress, that her comments definitely implicate. And it pisses me off when women are truly dealing with stalkers, abuse, rape, and other horrific crimes that are the result of the inherent sexism in society. She wants to be the bully without getting the push back.
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curiousgeorgiana
10/08/09

@Trulymadlyme: Yes. Thank you. There are real stalkers out there and true victims. This is insulting.
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redqueenmeg
10/08/09

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Ooo, is this part of the "I'm so pretty the left can't leave me alone" schtick?
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curiousgeorgiana
10/08/09

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Anyone notice that Palin and Bachmann have the same hand motions? Double finger pointing-- is there a school that teaches that?

On the idiotic stalker remark-- like way too many people on this website, I've been stalked. I had a gun held to my head while my ex opened his trunk and showed me the handcuffs, plastic garbage bags, and syringes full of tranquilizers. Without the distraction of a passing car, my ever present can of mace, and some pure luck, I have no doubts that I would be dead right now. And that that death would have been horrific.

Keith's got it right--terror is the only word to describe it. Michelle needs to get a clue or just stop talking altogether.
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lisas
10/08/09

@curiousgeorgiana: I read that politicians are trained to speak with two hands as much as possible. One-handed gesturing looks dishonest apparently. I have no backup for either of these assertions.
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curiousgeorgiana
10/08/09

@lisas: Interesting! I'd like to see a study on that. In general, the fewer motions the better for me, but I do like Obama's one handed finger jab. It works for him.
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maude_flanders
10/08/09

In reply to Michele Bachmann Calls MSNBC Anchors "Stalkers"
She is such a fucking stupid piece of shit. She's Congressional Speidi, and she's in good company (Sarah Palin, Jon Kyl....people who are either brilliant in their courting of controversy and their base, delusional assholes, or both).

I hope she and Jon Kyl and anyone else who obliviously and glibly brushes off real victims (I haven't forgotten Al Franken's amendment recently...good for him, and I hope the MSM is covering the bill and the "nays") of the system's shortcomings--be it women in the healthcare system, or stalking victims--is REAMED and punished.

Fat chance.
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WashingMyHair
10/09/09

@maude_flanders: Congressional Speidi will now forever be burned into my mind.
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Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini
10/08/09

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Yeah I've had two full-on, dangerous, restraining order-inducing stalkers in my life and it's terrifying. Go Team Keith!
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morninggloria
10/08/09

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She sort of reminds me of the leader of Heaven's Gate. You know, that guy with the crazy eyes who convinced all of those people to put on sweat suits and Nikes and eat poison pudding and then die on bunk beds.
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rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny
10/08/09

@morninggloria: To be fair, thinking that Hale Bopp was masking the arrival of an intergalactic spaceship that was going to whisk you away is like .2 percent less crazy than some of these people.

Minus the mass suicide, there's little funny about that.
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cynicalbeatle
10/08/09

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God, what I wouldn't give for a reanimated Paul Wellstone right about now. *sigh*
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
10/08/09

@cynicalbeatle: Is anyone looking into the cryonics thing?
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Brian Fowler
10/08/09

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Knocking on wood here that she talking crazy batshit right until her election, and gets voted out in place of an 'inanimate carbon rod'.
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suddenvalley
10/08/09

@Brian Fowler: Here's hoping!
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whats_in_a_name
10/08/09

@Brian Fowler: No way, inanimate carbon rod doesn't stand a chance against buckminsterfullerene
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mariamariamaria
03/23/09

In reply to Police Can't Help Woman Who Has Been Harassed Online For 18 Months
CLOSED CIRCUIT CAMERA!!!!!!! I'm sorry, I'm getting all Nancy Drew here, but it occurred to me that Ms. Goddard's harasser is either close enough to read the signs on her door or one of the dudes coming to the door is reporting back to her, so the police needs to start recording who comes to Goddard's door 24/7. If they see any "repeats" they can question him. And if they see the harasser on the property, then maybe they can get her for something like trespassing.
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PersonOfInterest
03/22/09

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This is slightly off topic, but... There was a girl in the news last year in Orange County, CA who went missing after going out on a date with someone she met on Craigslist. They tracked him down through her computer. He was a registered sex offender. He was sent to jail for not registering as a sex offender. He recently claimed she came over to his house to do drugs. He said she accidently overdosed and he panicked and threw her body in the ocean with weights. He is being charged with involuntary manslaughter rather than murder because they haven't found her body and they just have to take his word that he didn't rape her and kill her and toss her into the ocean.
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onehotmess
03/23/09

@PersonOfInterest: the internet is a dark, scary place sometimes...
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picardia
03/22/09

In reply to Police Can't Help Woman Who Has Been Harassed Online For 18 Months
She needs to publish/publicize the name of the woman harassing her, who would probably back down fast after the resulting shitstorm hit. Absent that, it's possible that this other woman is actually not sane, and the question needs to be about her mental health. Somebody needs some institutionalization, away from a computer keyboard.
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Jack_Burton
03/22/09

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Bans based on IP are easy to get around... My guess is that CL doesn't do that anyway, but would pass the IP and email addy on to police in an ongoing investigation. But again, it's pretty easy to spoof an IP, or use a series of proxies to hide the origin. Unless the Feds get involved, it would be pretty hard to track down due to jurisdiction and cooperation of ISPs, etc.

If CL banned the IP, and it were an IP from a public library, say... Or a WiFi link at Starbucks... They lose out on a fair amount of business.

An IP doesn't identify a person either. But it might be enough for a search warrant that could yield that result.

Probably this is someone she knows, with a grudge. Or a kid that she pissed-off.
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Veni Vermini Vomui
03/22/09

@Jack_Burton: You could get the IP and the MAC address. That would be a bit better, don't you think?
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Jack_Burton
03/22/09

@Vinnchan, that dude, with the hair... you know?: It's trivial to spoof either.
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Maritsa
03/22/09

In reply to Police Can't Help Woman Who Has Been Harassed Online For 18 Months
Hopefully a lawyer will read this and take her case to sue this person. This is intentional infliction of emotional distress to the nth degree. What a bastard.
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kikichanelconspiracy
03/22/09

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Ugh. That poor lady. I would be so upset if I were her, or she were my mom (she's the same age as my mother). I can't believe the police are all *shrugs, hands up* 'What can you do?'. Are they waiting for some weirdo who can't take 'no' for answer to show up and hurt her?
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IBleedGlitter: The High Priestess of Tinsel
03/22/09

@kikichanelconspiracy: I would livid if this were my mother! I'm not a violent person and I probably wouldn't do much damage, but this story is making me punchy.
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