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September 21, 2001
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Overhaul on a Whim
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| Posted by TomFulp |
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I decided this past week that I
am sick of stumbling through frames, especially with the site running
so slow, so I ditched 'em. Hope no one minds too much.
Right now there are a few things that still need to be fixed - the USER
RANKINGS will still pop up in frames until Ross changes some scripts.
Most of the site should be working, though. Let me know if you click on
ANY links ANYWHERE that bring up the frames. I want to eliminate them
completely! :)
So.... What does everyone think of the new look? Any suggestions?
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September 19, 2001
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Bags, Bombs, Bastards
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| Posted by TomFulp |
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I hate to change the subject, but I wanted to let everyone know that there are only 10 days left to order your NEWGROUNDS and FDA messenger bags!
Also be sure to give Shok props and listen to his LHM songs on mp3.com!
Rather than getting tons of 9-11 tributes, we are now getting tons of anti-Bin Laden tributes. Remember, whether he was behind this or not, he's still an asshole!
Due to some recent submissions, we have finally decided to create the Bastards Collection.
This includes some of the more tasteless WTC tributes, along with
movies about Aaliyah, Dale Ernhardt, Sonny Bono, and more. Don't like
them? Write a mean review! :)
Please be sure to read my post below and respond if you haven't
already! Also be sure to read everything to keep yourself informed
about how the world works! For example, did you know that the CIA
trained the Taliban to piss off the Soviets, so we basically created
our own worst enemy? Knowing these facts doesn't mean you are
anti-American - but they are interesting tidbits of info!
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September 17, 2001
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Discussion of Current Events
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| Posted by TomFulp |
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We've heard a lot of different response to recent events - many people
want to turn Afghanistan into a parking lot, while others want to
shower Osama Bin Laden with love and show him we are not the monsters
he thinks we are. I would personally like to see his head on a stick,
but before we discuss extremes, lets take a look at someone else's
perspective. The following is part of an email thread written by Tamim
Ansary, Afghani-American writer. He gives his American friends the
perspective through his Afghani eyes:
I've been hearing a lot of talk about "bombing Afghanistan back to
the Stone Age." Ronn Owens, on KGO Talk Radio today, allowed that this
would mean killing innocent people, people who had nothing to do with
this atrocity, but "we're at war, we have to accept collateral damage.
What else can we do?" Minutes later I heard some TV pundit discussing
whether we "have the belly to do what must be done."
And I thought about the issues being raised especially hard because I
am from Afghanistan, and even though I've lived here for 35 years I've
never lost track of what's going on there. So I want to tell anyone who
will listen how it all looks from where I'm standing.
I speak as one who hates the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. There is no
doubt in my mind that these people were responsible for the atrocity in
New York. I agree that something must be done about those monsters.
But the Taliban and Ben Laden are not Afghanistan. They're not even the
government of Afghanistan. The Taliban are a cult of ignorant
psychotics who took over Afghanistan in 1997. Bin Laden is a political
criminal with a plan. When you think Taliban, think Nazis. When you
think Bin Laden, think Hitler. And when you think "the people of
Afghanistan" think "the Jews in the concentration camps." It's not only
that the Afghan people had nothing to do with this atrocity. They were
the first victims of the perpetrators.
They would exult if someone would come in there, take out the Taliban
and clear out the rats nest of international thugs holed up in their
country.
Some say, why don't the Afghans rise up and overthrow the Taliban? The
answer is, they're starved, exhausted, hurt, incapacitated, suffering.
A few years ago, the United Nations estimated that there were 500,000
disabled orphans in Afghanistan - a country with no economy, no food.
There are millions of widows. And the Taliban has been burying these
widows alive in mass graves. The soil is littered with land mines, the
farms were all destroyed by the Soviets. These are a few of the reasons
why the Afghan people have not overthrown the Taliban.
We come now to the question of bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone
Age. Trouble is, that's been done. The Soviets took care of it already.
Make the Afghans suffer? They're already suffering.
Level their houses? Done.
Turn their schools into piles of rubble? Done.
Eradicate their hospitals? Done.
Destroy their infrastructure? Cut them off from medicine and health care?
Too late. Someone already did all that.
New bombs would only stir the rubble of earlier bombs. Would they at
least get the Taliban? Not likely. In today's Afghanistan, only the
Taliban eat, only they have the means to move around. They'd slip away
and hide. Maybe the bombs would get some of those disabled orphans,
they don't move too fast, they don't even have wheelchairs. But flying
over Kabul and dropping bombs wouldn't really be a strike against the
criminals who did this horrific thing.
Actually it would only be making common cause with the Taliban - by
raping once again the people they've been raping all this time. So what
else is there? What can be done, then? Let me now speak with true fear
and trembling. The only way to get Bin Laden is to go in there with
ground troops. When people speak of "having the belly to do what needs
to be done" they're thinking in terms of having the belly to kill as
many as needed.
Having the belly to overcome any moral qualms about killing innocent people.
Let's pull our heads out of the sand. What's actually on the table is
Americans dying. And not just because some Americans would die fighting
their way through Afghanistan to Bin Laden's hideout. It's much bigger
than that folks. Because to get any troops to Afghanistan, we'd have to
go through Pakistan. Would they let us? Not likely. The conquest of
Pakistan would have to be first. Will other Muslim nations just stand
by?
You see where I'm going. We're flirting with a world war between Islam and the West.
And guess what: that's Bin Laden's program. That's exactly what he wants.
That's why he did this. Read his speeches and statements. It's all
right there. He really believes Islam would beat the west. It might
seem ridiculous, but he figures if he can polarize the world into Islam
and the West, he's got a billion soldiers. If the West wreaks a
holocaust in those lands, that's a billion people with nothing left to
lose, that's even better from Bin Laden's point of view. He's probably
wrong, in the end the West would win, whatever that would mean, but the
war would last for years and millions would die, not just theirs but
ours. Who has the belly for that?
Bin Laden does. Anyone else?
I'm not sure when this email was written - but Pakistan has since
pledged support to the US. I am guessing that would include sending
ground troups through Pakistan. I also doubt that we will be turning
Afghanistan into a parking lot. Anyone who has been reading up on our
current military status may have seen that we have two prototype planes
with high powered lasers, capable of destroying a single human target
in a crowd from 180 miles away. I'd like to see us use that between
Osama's legs. But I'm getting sidetracked...
My main reason for posting this was, what does it make you think? Does
it change your view of Afghanistan? Does it change your feelings
towards what must be done to end this conflict?
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I don't know if y'all heard what happened. The two WTC building were
hit by two kamikazee TERRORIST planes. They got tooken out bad -
smoking like two roman candles. Also A BOMB went off in Washington DC -
in I believe the PENTAGON building. The damage to the WTC was so bad
that ONE tower has COMPLETELY COLLAPSED and is COMPLETELY destroyed. I
have been watching this ALL MORNING.
I live right across the HUDSON RIVER and see the WTC buildings like
they were a few blocks away. I was home when the first explosion
happened (like 8 years ago?). I heard that EXPLOSION and I looked out
my window. I was also home when a blimp crashed into the WTC and I
looked outside and saw that crazy image.
A whole F*CKING World Trade Center Tower is tore down. It looks like
the end of the world - if you could see TV. If you are lucky you have
CNN. The weird shit is all the TV communications are in the WTC and
when the tower went out - so do all the TV channels.
When shit like this happens - I think what will happen? Who is our
president? What will he do? This shit is crazy. I am going to go
outside and take in some more of the mayhem. Right now it's crazy.
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September 8, 2001
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The Clock Crew Situation
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| Posted by TomFulp |
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Just some quick reminders:
Disorderly launched this week and you must play it!
Disorderly Merchandise is available and it is HOT! Buy today!
Newgrounds Messenger Bags are only available until the end of the month!
Every once in a while I get the urge to post funny emails on the front
page, and I don't know why I never do. Yesterday I got a real zinger,
so I thought everyone would get a kick out of it. Anyone who frequents The Portal
is familiar with the "Clock Crew" - a bunch of names beginning with
fruits and ending with "Clock". They submit movies that tick everyone
off, and I get TONS and TONS of emails asking me to ban them. Well,
yesterday I got an email from the Clock Crew themselves. Have a look!
Subject: "Clock" situation
Dear Mr. Tom Fulp,
I would first like to state that going to Newgrounds.com over the past
few days has been a burden rather than the fun, entertaining place it
is meant to be. This is due mainly to the fact that the
so-called "Clock Crew" has been dealt a gross injustice by fellow users
of the web site. Not only have numerous users of Newgrounds.com
offended us several times on the BBS and in movie reviews, but they
have also taken the liberty of making and submitting degrading Flash
movies using our likeness to convey hatred, anger, and downright
bigotry toward us. The following is a list of movies that we feel break
the Newgrounds.com rules and therefore should result in account
deletion or, in extreme cases, a ban to the users listed.
Provided are links to the movies in question along with the title and user whom submitted it:
anti strawberry_clock - by user "raxar"
anti strawberry_clock II - by user "raxar"
Clock Subliminal Messages - by user "GrandmasterJ"
Life of Strawberry Clock - by user "GrandmasterJ"
Kill strawberry clock - by user "kl0ne"
StrawberryClock: TheTruth - by user "kl0ne"
Madman v Strawberry_Clock - by user "ZidaneX"
Strawberry_Clock Speech - by user "ZidaneX"
Biggest Asshole Winner - by user "Mr_Congeniality"
Die Strawberry clock!!! - by user "Thepoombas"
Strawberry - Orange Clock - by user "Sir_Pizzaman"
StrawberryClock Testimony - by user "waf"
Strawberry_Clock's Fucks - by user "FUCK_YOU_ZILLA"
Not only are the movies both offensive and extremely inappropriate for
the content of Newgrounds.com, but the authors make numerous threats to
the so-called "Clock Crew," including death threats, threats to our
family and friends, and talk of violent or homosexual
acts directed toward us. This harassment is not limited to Flash
movies, however, it can also be found in the reviews for the
aforementioned movies, and on the BBS chat.
If that is not shocking enough, users tend to vote "X" or "0" without
even watching our movies or giving them a score that they really
deserve. Several users (Pants01, Mr_Congeniality, GrandmasterJ,
ChronoBasher, MrLicky, Quirion_Dryad, and VdIbV, to name a few)
search for our movies and specifically vote "X" or "0" to get them
deleted so we cannot be a part of the Newgrounds.com community. These
users have not been provoked by us in any way, they simply do not like
us because they think the movies we make are "stupid" and
have "no effort" put into them, despite the fact that these people
create movies of poor quality themselves or do not create movies at
all.
This aggravation has led to a disliking of our visits to Newgrounds.com
when having to face the humility of being called a "faggot," among
other disheartening words, reading users' posts describing various acts
of violence which they would like to act upon us, and having our
quality movies deleted for no good reason day after day.
We feel that these users should be dealt with immediately seeing as
they are trying to get our accounts deleted and/or banned because they
believe that we are somehow violating our Newgrounds.com agreement as
well. With the exception of one movie made by StrawberryClock in
retaliation for the 13 or so "anti-StrawberryClock" movies, we have not
crossed any lines or broken any rules set by the good folks at
Newgrounds.com. All we want is fair treatment and justice served for
those whom segregate the Portal.
Thank You.
So, what does everyone think of this? :)
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