A tip of the hat to DU's The Magistrate.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

One of DU's most unique and well-informed personalities. And undoubtedly its most well-spoken.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Absolutely right!

I celebrate his presence here!

[madokie]

2. Very polite to boot

[cprise]

56. Thug tactics against people who post Salon.com, Counterpunch, The Nation, DN!, BBC articles

by using SPAM to drown out the comments are pretty impolite and unbecoming a supposed intellectual.

Those, along with Huffpo and Alternet, are representative of sites that have taken a critical view of the pro-NATO/anti-Russian narrative circulating in the US mass media.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101697273#post4

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101697276#post1

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101697285#post1

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101697261#post1

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101697264

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101697262#post1

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101697271#post1

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101697278#post1

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101697270#post1

He apparently regards diverse, respected authors from these sites as "propaganda drivel" outlets because they tend to question the Washington consensus. Even if an infamous person is quoted with qualification of general disagreement, this is something DUers do constantly to point out that even opponents are forced to acknowledge facts on occasion.

[The Magistrate]

69. I Do Not Know Where Some Get That Idea, Sir

But there are several people, including a pair of budding teen-aged grandsons, who would be surprised to learn that of the bearded old thing that shags them in to do the dishes....

[Ken Burch]

77. I stand corrected.

Sorry about that.

[The Magistrate]

79. No Trouble, My Friend

Lord knows I have done it often enough....

[Samantha]

131. I always love reading your posts and have only one small complaint

There just are not enough of them.

Sam

[Tommy_Carcetti]

81. The audacity of having to read George Orwell!

What spam!

[littlemissmartypants]

82. Lol! Thanks for reminding me. nt

[The Magistrate]

84. A Link For You, Sir

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300011h.html

A lot of good stuff there in the list.

[cprise]

90. And having 10 screenfuls of it repeated at the start of every thread.

Using Orwell himself to drown out discussion then pontificate about "democracy" is itself Orwellian, esp. from a poster who defended voting for the Iraq War Resolution as a political necessity.

It puts this Magistrate quote in an interesting light:

Orwell dissects quite cogently some long-standing attitudes of the left in the West, attitudes which go a long way towards explaining why left parties remain so impotent in our polity. In a democracy, bearing the 'anti-patriot' label is a heavy disadvantage, and to shoulder it voluntarily, and boast of it shrilly, and rub it in at every opportunity, is simply madness --- if one wants to actually gain mass following for one's social and economic goals....

Remember the media RW refrain about "Blame America First liberals" during the runup to the Iraq War? I do. This is a patently neocon talking point.

[The Magistrate]

91. That is The Best You Can Find, Sir?

This?

"Suppose, just for the sake of argument, that the proposed resolution had been rejected by all Democrats in the Senate plus Jeffords. Do you really thnk this would have halted the thing? The preparations, the deployments, all would have gone on on the same schedule. The '02 election would have been fought on the slogan "Voting for a Democrat is voting for Saddam!" The losses in the Senate would have been far worse than they actually were, and the first business of the new Congress would have been the triumphant passage of the enabling reolution. The invasion would have taken place on the same day planned for the previous autumn; there would not even have been a delay. We both know this would have been the outcome."

That is flat accurate analysis of what anyone with the sense to come in out of the rain knows would have happened. It certainly does not reflect support for invading Iraq; you would not be able to find any expression of support for that by me. But that resolution was a political trap, and was intended to be a political trap, and as with any well constructed trap, there really were no good moves for people caught in it.

[cprise]

92. Yet Obama didn't vote for IWR and was elected President

His only "political reality" was accepting the invasion after the fact and supporting a surge.

So that's what the grand Magistrate analytic prowess boils down to... Justifying the political psychosis of the Iraq War for the sake of "political reality". And yes, the Bush admin's "proofs" of WMD were known to be fakes before the invasion.

I'm not impressed.

[The Magistrate]

94. The Illinois Legislature, Sir, Had No Say In The Matter

So of course he did not vote for it....

And you are, as you have done before, merely making the point I pressed in what you cited above:

"A lot of the problem stems from how long the left has been effectively barred from power and influence on political life here. This means leftist commentators and true believers come to live in a world where they no what they say will never have any real effect and this inculcates an attitude in which irresponsibility, and not only a lack of concern with possible consequence, will flourish. An illustration of this is the strident defense of Nader in 2000 one can still see from leftists of the 'purer than thou' variety --- in this case, their 'not a dime's worth of difference' line, and a few tens of thousands actually acting on it, had the great and grave consequence of putting the reactionary right into power. So unconcerned have such people become with the possible consequences of their positions that they deny this, the one real consequence their views have had for a long time, ever actually occurred...."

Your only concern is whether an act or expression tallies with a pure ideological view, regardless of what the practical consequences might be, and which people in any position of responsibility would, if they acted as you would insist, would have to face, in spheres ranging from actual policy to their careers. That the pure ideological view you insist on is one that is not usually widely popular, and can in a pinch be made very unpopular by a skilled politician, is just icing on the cake.

[cprise]

96. and he attacked Hillary Clinton in 2008 for supporting it.

Obama came out against the IWR when it was up for vote, even if he wasn't voting on it. That issue was on everyone's mind at that time and Obama had a political career to worry about.

[The Magistrate]

97. Indeed He Did, Sir

And doubtless it impressed a number of people who do not think very deeply about national and political events. There was so little real difference between Sen. Obama and Sen. Clinton, in terms of positions and likely policies when elected, that it was necessary in the primary campaign to resort to half-truths and insinuendoes to whip up the spirits of the partisan crowds. If recollection serves, Sen. Obama denounced including an employer mandate in a health insurance reform program, as Sen. Clinton had proposed....

[cprise]

99. That's nice, but this is war we're talking about

The justifications do not add up, morally or politically. They could have spoken up about Bush's fabrications.

Supporters of the IWR vote are culpable for the ruin this and other countries have experienced since.

[The Magistrate]

100. Are We, Sir? It Seemed To Me You Were Complaining About Impurity....

About the posting of an essay by Orwell in response to someone, someone now suspended yet again, for spamming the board with pro-Kremlin swill, and whether that was thuggery, and heavens knows what else.

A casual observer might easily leap to the conclusion you do not like me very much....

[cprise]

103. Drawing the line at warmongering is not a purity test. Sorry.

OTOH, you do like to accuse DUers of being 'insufficiently patriotic'.

[The Magistrate]

105. Now, Sir, You re Just Making Things Up, If You Are Seriously Calling Me A War-Monger

I have pointed out before, and doubtless will again, that in a democracy, for a political party or tendency to gain the name of 'anti-patriot' is a heavy burden, since most people do, without thinking about it much, love their country, and will not feel much fellowship with someone who they believe does not share that feeling.

[cprise]

111. So we should base political decisions on fascist principles?

Trivializing appeals to facts, and counting on reactions to "feelings"?

What lovely political 'realism'.

[The Magistrate]

113. Only, Sir, If You Believe Political Reality Has An Inherent Fascist Bias....

[cprise]

116. It does only if politicos give up on the public's acceptance of facts.

Then they must govern through irrationality.

[The Magistrate]

118. I Appreciate Your Kicking The Thread, Sir

But we are so deep into 'say something once, why say it again?' territory that I cannot must the interest necessary to continue the exchange....

[xfundy]

142. I'm getting the idea

that you need a whole thread praising you like a baby needs a bottle.

[cprise]

147. Yet more irony.

That's not MY custom...

[Gidney N Cloyd]

109. ...

[Eleanors38]

159. Not a bad quote -- from an old gun-toter.

[joshcryer]

162. Bush was invading without AUMF.

[Igel]

86. There is a difference between impolite and polite ...

That allows one to agree impolitely--or to take a poignard to an idea and deftly disembowel it while fully respecting decorum.

There is a vast difference between according one respect and according one courtesy.

[pinboy3niner]

3. Polite to a fault--but with an incisive intelligence and a sharp bite!

[Warpy]

4. Yes, and absolutely devastating when it comes to puncturing gasbags

Magistrate, I am glad you are here. Please never mellow.

[snagglepuss]

5. Indubitably.

3 cheers for the Magistrate.

[sheshe2]

6. Hear Hear~Bravo Sir!

[ChisolmTrailDem]

7. Agreed...

[Blue_Tires]

8. He's also one of the more skilled model builders I've ever sen...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

18. does he do the ships in the bottles?

[Blue_Tires]

24. I think so...

I do remember clearly that he does airplanes...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

41. OK, Maybe that was someone else ... I remember now a picture thread

with the model airplanes. Very detailed.

[Brother Buzz]

23. Ah, but he refuses to build Roald Dahl's Gloster Gladiator

[The Magistrate]

66. Thank You, Sir

Here a couple you might like.

The first was completed fairly recently, the second was done a good while back:





It is a Polikarpov I-153, of the 127th IAP, flown by Lt.Zhukovskiy from Avgustove, who was credited with several German aircraft destroyed on the first day of Barbarossa.





This is a Polikarpov I-15bis, operating on the Lagoda sector during the Siege of Leningrad early in 1942, as a ground attack machine. Unit is un-known, but things were pretty ad hoc then in any case; there is a good photograph of the thing, however.

[mopinko]

151. good to see you my friend. we should get together.

these look like fun.
you know, if you go to any granite counter top fabricator, they will give you the cutouts from the sinks. for a couple bucks they might even polish the edges for you.

rock on old man. it is our sad duty to keep these trolls in the real world.

kids these days.....

[The Magistrate]

153. Another 'Meet Up' Gathering Here Might Be Nice, Ma'am

It has certainly been a while.

That is an interesting idea about the granite remnants. The things I use for the bases are intended for wall plaques, I gather. My usual shop has just now closed down, though it is to move, fortunately, not to shutter up completely. Its new location, though, will not be nearly so convenient....

[mopinko]

166. i did my first taxidermy project

took a small private class. stuffed a pheasant.
big fun. very tactile.
they handed out little slices of logs.

i have a small flock of chickens now, is what made me want to take the class. hoping to sell some feathers. have lovely birds.

i immediately started being flooded ideas for the hilarious things one could pose a stuffed chicken on/in.
i thought it was super easy, but very complicated at the same time. but in my wheelhouse.
i turned the worst pelt in the class, not my fault, into a decent stuffed pheasant.

chauncy-

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=700317563323259&set=pb.410796658942019.-2207520000.1405109120.&type=3&theater

rocking chair aint got me yet, tho, so i dont have much time for hobbies.
wont be able to help myself come time to cull the flock, tho.


and yeah, meet up. maybe we could do a dinner cruise on the lake.
or y'all could come to the farm.

[bigtree]

9. hear, hear!

[immoderate]

10. Indubitable, sir.

--imm

[CTyankee]

11. Glad to join in with my tip of the hat.

The Magistrate is my idea of a gentleman! Bravo.

[Cali_Democrat]

12. One of DU's best

[Coventina]

13. Yes, one of DU's greatest.

[MoonRiver]

14. Totally agree!

The Magistrate rocks!

[H2O Man]

15. I agree.

Recommended.

[n2doc]

16. Always a delight when they contribute to a thread!

And with style!

[lunatica]

17. I have a great deal of respect for The Magistate

[justhanginon]

19. Allow me to add my appreciation also as I too enjoy your posts. n/t

[Rowdyboy]

20. I find his wit refreshing and his commentary incisive....

An asset to any community.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

21. He is One of a Kind, The Magistrate.

[kcr]

22. I'll gladly rec this

[littlemissmartypants]

25. Indeed. eom

[bravenak]

26. You are right, sir!

I like the Magistrate.

[riqster]

27. Indeed!

A toast as well!

[calimary]

28. OH Absolutely Positively Unquestionably, sir!

And so elegantly well-mannered, too. Agreed!!!!

[greatauntoftriplets]

29. I'll drink to The Magistrate!

In fact, I've had a drink with him!

[Benton D Struckcheon]

44. Haven't had the pleasure,

but I'll dedicate this ice cold scotch & soda to him. He's a pleasure to have around.

[The Magistrate]

70. I Remember, Ma'am

Quite a sundress you had on, I recall....

Be well!

[greatauntoftriplets]

72. It was warm out!

Be well youself.

[The Magistrate]

74. No Fool Like An Old Fool: Put This In The Wrong Place

Ah, well, good to have noticed soon, anyway.

[Glorfindel]

30. Most definitely - credit where it's due!

Articulate and civilized.

[Squinch]

31. Good idea. I like that guy!

[Spazito]

32. Totally agree!

[Tom Rinaldo]

33. I usually stay off tribute threads

But there is an exception to every rule.

[The Magistrate]

119. Thank You, Mr. Rinaldo

I have a great respect for your comments here, and always am glad to come upon them.

[Lochloosa]

34. Totally agree Sir.

[SidDithers]

35. An appreciation thread I can happily endorse...

Sid

[DinahMoeHum]

36. Hear, hear! With a Pimm's Cup to toast.

I always enjoy reading his comments.

[Bobbie Jo]

37. I'll rec that!

One of my faves.

[tenderfoot]

38. I agree Sir!

To you Magistrate.

[William769]

39. A BIG K&R!

[WillyT]

40. Agreed... K & R !!!

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

42. K&R sir

[leftstreet]

43. Uh-oh. What has he done?

DURec

[On the Road]

45. I Remember a Thread the Magistrate Started on Kosovo

composed an extremely long, well-written piece on the history of the area going back centuries.

A poster chimed in to say "you forgot to provide a citation." Another poster then replied "Um, I think The Magistrate actually wrote that himself." Which turned out to be the case.

[The Magistrate]

67. Happy To have That Remembered, Sir

Thank you.

[SunSeeker]

46. K & R

[rocktivity]

47. SIR! I most wholeheartedly concur, SIR!

rocktivity

[randome]

48. What? The Magistrate is dead? When did this happen?

WHY DON'T YOU PEOPLE TELL ME ANYTHING?!
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[Jack Rabbit]

49. He has been so since 2001

!!

[The Magistrate]

68. Must Appreciated, My Old Friend

I have been recalling you a bit recently, as I recently ventured into the current incarnation of our old 'sand trap' for a few posts....

"Law west of the Pecos."

[Jack Rabbit]

98. !!

To the law West of the Pecos . . .
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[MohRokTah]

50. WWTMP?

What would The Magistrate Post?

I think I'll try to take that to heart from now on when responding to all threads.

[steve2470]

51. *tips my hat also*

I can envision him wearing black judicial robes as he types.

[LongTomH]

52. A gentleman and a scholar who has proven that one can debate in a civilized manner.

[sinkingfeeling]

53. K & R

[Skidmore]

54. Intelligent, knowledgeable, and gracious

while taking no prisoners. I always look forward to reading his posts.

[Hekate]

55. I'll add a formal bow to The Magistrate, Sir. One of my favorite DUers.

[The Magistrate]

57. Thank You, Mr. Carcetti

You will, I expect recall these bits....







http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2011/03/when-its-not-your-turn-the-quintessentially-victorian-vision-of-ogdens-the-wire/

[Tommy_Carcetti]

59. The pleasure is all mine.

Loved the reads!

[NuclearDem]

60. I'll second that.

[TheCowsCameHome]

61. And That, Sir Or Ma'am, Is A Fact.

Three thumbs up.

[hrmjustin]

62. Love The Magistrate!

[PeaceNikki]

63. he's one of the good eggs

[sufrommich]

64. He is a great DUer. nt

[cry baby]

65. Highest respect for The Magistrate! nt

[freshwest]

71. Proud to be the 101st Rec!

[mcar]

73. K&R

The Magistrate is great!

[The Magistrate]

75. I Appreciate Your Kind Words Very Much, My Friends

Thank you.

Here is a bit from Mr. H. H. Munro, an especial favorite of mine....


CLOVIS ON PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES

MARION EGGELBY sat talking to Clovis on the only subject that she ever willingly talked about – her offspring and their varied perfections and accomplishments. Clovis was not in what could be called a receptive mood; the younger generation of Eggelby, depicted in the glowing improbable colours of parent impressionism, aroused in him no enthusiasm. Mrs. Eggelby, on the other hand, was furnished with enthusiasm enough for two.

“You would like Eric,” she said, argumentatively rather than hopefully. Clovis had intimated very unmistakably that he was unlikely to care extravagantly for either Amy or Willie. “Yes, I feel sure you would like Eric. Every one takes to him at once. You know, he always reminds me of that famous picture of the youthful David – I forget who it’s by, but it’s very well known.”

“That would be sufficient to set me against him, if I saw much of him,” said Clovis. “Just imagine at auction bridge, for instance, when one was trying to concentrate one’s mind on what one’s partner’s original declaration had been, and to remember what suits one’s opponents had originally discarded, what it would be like to have some one persistently reminding one of a picture of the youthful David. It would be simply maddening. If Eric did that I should detest him.”

“Eric doesn’t play bridge,” said Mrs. Eggelby with dignity.

“Doesn’t he?” asked Clovis; “why not?”

“None of my children have been brought up to play card games,” said Mrs. Eggelby; “draughts and halma and those sorts of games I encourage. Eric is considered quite a wonderful draughts-player.”

“You are strewing dreadful risks in the path of your family,” said Clovis; “a friend of mine who is a prison chaplain told me that among the worst criminal cases that have come under his notice, men condemned to death or to long periods of penal servitude, there was not a single bridge-player. On the other hand, he knew at least two expert draughts-players among them.”

“I really don’t see what my boys have got to do with the criminal classes,” said Mrs. Eggelby resentfully. “They have been most carefully brought up, I can assure you that.”

“That shows that you were nervous as to how they would turn out,” said Clovis. “Now, my mother never bothered about bringing me up. She just saw to it that I got whacked at decent intervals and was taught the difference between right and wrong; there is some difference, you know, but I’ve forgotten what it is.”

“Forgotten the difference between right and wrong!” exclaimed Mrs. Eggelby.

“Well, you see, I took up natural history and a whole lot of other subjects at the same time, and one can’t remember everything, can one? I used to know the difference between the Sardinian dormouse and the ordinary kind, and whether the wry-neck arrives at our shores earlier than the cuckoo, or the other way round, and how long the walrus takes in growing to maturity; I daresay you knew all those sorts of things once, but I bet you’ve forgotten them.”

“Those things are not important,” said Mrs. Eggelby, “but – ”

“The fact that we’ve both forgotten them proves that they are important,” said Clovis; “you must have noticed that it’s always the important things that one forgets, while the trivial, unnecessary facts of life stick in one’s memory. There’s my cousin, Editha Clubberley, for instance; I can never forget that her birthday is on the 12th of October. It’s a matter of utter indifference to me on what date her birthday falls, or whether she was born at all; either fact seems to me absolutely trivial, or unnecessary – I’ve heaps of other cousins to go on with. On the other hand, when I’m staying with Hildegarde Shrubley I can never remember the important circumstance whether her first husband got his unenviable reputation on the Turf or the Stock Exchange, and that uncertainty rules Sport and Finance out of the conversation at once. One can never mention travel, either, because her second husband had to live permanently abroad.”

“Mrs. Shrubley and I move in very different circles,” said Mrs. Eggelby stiffly.

“No one who knows Hildegarde could possibly accuse her of moving in a circle,” said Clovis; “her view of life seems to be a non-stop run with an inexhaustible supply of petrol. If she can get some one else to pay for the petrol so much the better. I don’t mind confessing to you that she has taught me more than any other woman I can think of.”

“What kind of knowledge?” demanded Mrs. Eggelby, with the air a jury might collectively wear when finding a verdict without leaving the box.

“Well, among other things, she’s introduced me to at least four different ways of cooking lobster,” said Clovis gratefully. “That, of course, wouldn’t appeal to you; people who abstain from the pleasures of the card- table never really appreciate the finer possibilities of the dining-table. I suppose their powers of enlightened enjoyment get atrophied from disuse.”

“An aunt of mine was very ill after eating a lobster,” said Mrs. Eggelby.

“I daresay, if we knew more of her history, we should find out that she’d often been ill before eating the lobster. Aren’t you concealing the fact that she’d had measles and influenza and nervous headache and hysteria, and other things that aunts do have, long before she ate the lobster? Aunts that have never known a day’s illness are very rare; in fact, I don’t personally know of any. Of course if she ate it as a child of two weeks old it might have been her first illness – and her last. But if that was the case I think you should have said so.”

“I must be going,” said Mrs. Eggelby, in a tone which had been thoroughly sterilised of even perfunctory regret.

Clovis rose with an air of graceful reluctance.

“I have so enjoyed our little talk about Eric,” he said; “I quite look forward to meeting him some day.”

“Good-bye,” said Mrs. Eggelby frostily; the supplementary remark which she made at the back of her throat was -

“I’ll take care that you never shall!”

[Bluenorthwest]

76. More Meta Wanking

I personally don't care for the whole ma'am/sir routine. It is performed without any inquiry as to the gender identity of the person being addressed and that is rude and should not be imitated by anyone. If you don't know, don't presume. Ask.

[Rex]

78. True, never broken character once.

Puts me to shame as far as manners go.

Hat tip to you too TC for a classy thread!

[malaise]

80. Yes Sir!!

indeed

[Sissyk]

83. K&R for The Magistrate!

[90-percent]

85. I'd like to hijack this for just one post

And give thanks to the great contribution's Octafish has made to DU over the years.

The Magistrate is not on my radar, but he will be now. That is all.

-90% Jimmy

[The Magistrate]

88. Be My Guest, Sir: I Think He Is An Excellent Fellow

We do not always agree, mind, but he fights his corner well, and makes a valuable contribution here.

[navarth]

120. you read my mind. nt

[ColesCountyDem]

87. A gentleman of the old school, and one of the few here whose posts I always read.

You are, sir, courtly, witty and always incisive. You remind me very much of my favorite Illinois Supreme Court Justice, the late Joseph Goldenhersh.

[Still Sensible]

89. Yes indeed

[mac56]

93. x1000

[blogslut]

95. I dig him

[KurtNYC]

101. I heartily agree, sir.

[scarletwoman]

102. The Magistrate has been a dear and valued friend since my earliest days here.

I can truly say that I love him unconditionally.

I am instantly cheered whenever I see a post by him, whatever the topic, whatever he has to say. His incisive intelligence and dry wit are invaluable, and DU would be a much poorer place without him. Behind the persona there is an honest heart of great compassion and tireless commitment to integrity and truth.

to The Magistrate!

[The Magistrate]

114. Thank You Very Much, Ma'am

You are coming very near to making me blush, and may be sure the feelings are reciprocated. I value your friendship here very much.

[scarletwoman]

115. ...

You are coming very near to making me blush...

Then my work here is done.

[Duckhunter935]

104. Yes, he deserves it

[JI7]

106. i think he is funny

[Threedifferentones]

107. I find the sir and ma'am routine to be annoying and condescending.

But then again I've often been called an inconsiderate jerk. Probably I just prefer to people to treat me the way I treat them.

But, his views generally seem well informed, and his arguments logically sound, which I guess is what really counts.

[lovemydog]

108. Heck to the yes sir

We've got many great people here at DU and The Magistrate is most certainly one of them. I enjoy reading all his posts. Even the arguments in which he is sometimes a part provide food for thought and a model on how to disagree without being a jerk. Bravo!

[DoBotherMe]

110. I agree!

Cheers to The Magistrate Dana ; )

[Enrique]

112. he brings to DU...

[IronLionZion]

117. A tip of the hat to the good sir

One of DU's most polite and patient gentlemen. I enjoy reading his posts.

And I've wondered how to tell if someone is a sir or madam if its not obvious from their profile or handle. How does one address androgynous posters in a post gender world?

[WilliamPitt]

121. Absolutely

[The Magistrate]

125. Thank You Very Much, Mr. Pitt

[azurnoir]

140. A question Sir something I've wondered if you will

in the nonvirtual world does the Magistrate speak in the manner he writes or something like it?

[The Magistrate]

141. Someone In The Lounge, Ma'am, Once Described 'Deadwood' Dialogue As 'Magistrate With Tourettes'.....

My diction and vocabulary are what they are, but I can certainly get a bit to the blue, which generally I do avoid here.

[azurnoir]

144. Lol I'm trying to imagine that

but a bit of blue properly used could add a certain flair

[The Magistrate]

154. That It Can, Ma'am

I do not hold with those who say profanity is the recourse of those who cannot think of anything else to say. It can be very useful in the proper circumstances, and there are meanings and imports nothing else can convey.

[grahamhgreen]

122. Kick! M can be reasoned with!

[KoKo]

123. Are you Serious? "The Magistrate" has been Threatened and Needs Our Support?

Last I saw he was ALIVE AND WELL...with No "Time Outs" or anything against him. He "holds his own" when a post offends him.

I find him a great person to Debate With and not in Need of any "Extra Help" here on DU.


What is this post about?

[Surya Gayatri]

124. Will always make a point of reading any Magistrate

post right to the end. No skimming or scanning.

When The Magistrate puts fingers to keyboard, you know it's worth the read.

[Billy Budd]

126. at first I did not take to him

but once I read more I started smirking and sneering ...can't stand the egotism....Sir yes Sir

[MADem]

127. I think the Magistrate is a big part of what makes DU wonderful! nt

[flying rabbit]

128. I concur.

[MrMickeysMom]

129. I'll say…

We all need a little humility now and then and need to pay attention to what and how he posts.

KnR

[Liberal_Dog]

130. K & R

I don't always agree with The Magistrate, but he is definitely an asset to our little community.

[tishaLA]

132. there's nothing about The Magistrate I dislike

Even when I disagree with him. He is, to me, the very best f DU.

[Barack_America]

134. My most-respected poster, hands down.

A "memory lane" bit on the subject:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3659016

[Lithos]

135. Stand Gentlemen

He served on Samar!

[The Magistrate]

139. Good To See You Here, Sir

And nice to see the old toast recalled.

As you may have noted, I was briefly down in the old haunt under press of current events. A bad business all around....

[Lithos]

155. My pleasure

Was good to see your comments. It's truly a bad business.

"Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both." - Tryon Edwards

[The Magistrate]

163. I Expect It Will Only Get Worse, Sir

Certainly so long as Likud governments are put in place, it is a fair summary of Israeli policy to call its aim 'one land between the river and the sea', and its tool annexation in all but name of the portions of the Jordan valley over-run in '67. It did not have to be like that. I suspect Netanyahu will go down in history as the man who did more damage than anyone else to the future of the state of Israel.

[beam me up scottie]

136. You remind me of my Dad, sir.

Don't ever change.

[maced666]

137. When world leaders meet, he's never invited - his attendance is assumed.

Tried selling that off to the Dos Equis people but they weren't buying - humbly apply it to - Magistrate

[Ellipsis]

138. I do so enjoy THe Magistrate.

[DeSwiss]

143. In my view......

...The Magistrate is the epitome of civility.

- K&R, indeed.

[Violet_Crumble]

145. Now, this is one tipping of the hat thread I can agree with!

The Magistrate and I go way back to the dinosaur days of DU1. I'm a volatile and sometimes slow learner, but he taught me something when he gave me some home truths back at DU2 about the way I'd been behaving, and he was right about it and I learnt from it. I don't always agree with him on some issues, but I can forgive that in someone who has the knowledge of Middle East history that he's got. Plus he's a genuinely great person.

[The Magistrate]

149. Thank You Very Much, Ma'am

Glad to have you as a friend.

[BumRushDaShow]

146. Oh hell yeah!

[Sunlei]

148. Appreciate The Magistrate posts!

A voice of reason

[egduj]

150. Way to go The Magistrate!

[The Green Manalishi]

152. Undoubtedly.

I may not always agree with him, but I can count on a well reasoned and properly composed explication of his point of view; free from histrionics, germane as to the issue at hand and addressing the burden of rejoinder if there is one at play.

[The Magistrate]

158. Idiosyncratic Use Of Language Fascinates Me, Sir

You seem to take the term 'bullying' as meaning 'disagreeing forcefully and effectively with your views'. It seems of a family with the people who cry they are 'being silenced' when they encounter comments that do not agree with the views they express.

The rest of your comment says much more about you than about me....

[nyabingi]

160. Well, when you gather your disciples to get a comment

hidden from view, then I think that would be rightfully called "being silenced".

This is your world man, I'm just a squirrel trying to get a nut.

[The Magistrate]

161. You Mean A Jury Hid One of Your Posts, Sir?

And you imagine I somehow orchestrated the thing, packed the jury, solicited alerts, what?

[Populist_Prole]

157. Copy that!

[burrowowl]

164. Here! Here!

[The Magistrate]

165. Again, My Thanks To All Who Replied Here

I appreciate the kind words very much....