Today, truthseeker77 published a "comments disabled" post entitled Keith Olbermann and the straw man fallacy.  I'm not recommending that you read it.  In fact, I didn't read it, and I'm making it a general rule to never read posts that have comments disabled.  But after I clicked the link, I realized that when someone posts something that looks interesting or provocative, I often scroll down to the comments first--before reading the post.  I guess sometimes the effect is more interesting to me than the cause.  Seeing that grey "COMMENTS DISABLED" thing at the bottom of the post caused me to reach for the Back button before the page had even finished loading. 

The futility and arrogance of trying to prevent replies to your public pronouncements should be obvious to all, but apparently it's not.  In my opinion, disabling comments is a silly, cowardly practice, and I'd like to see a warning right on the "Recent Reader Posts" list so I could avoid clicking the link in the first place. 

At any rate, if you happen to feel the overwhelming urge to read and/or respond to truthseeker77's post, please feel free to use the space below to reply to whatever the hell it was truthseeker77 wrote.

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An interesting tidbit from the Minnesota Independent:

"Less than two months after he was elected in 2002, Norm Coleman used the power of his yet-to-be-assumed U.S. Senate office to try to leverage a presidential pardon for convicted money launderer and Tom Petters associate Frank Vennes Jr. And two years after that, Coleman wrote yet another pardon plea on Vennes' behalf.

Vennes, whose criminal record includes 1986 pleas of guilty and no contest to a set of charges involving money-laundering, drug and firearms charges, is currently implicated -- though not yet charged -- in the Tom Petters financial fraud scandal. As Jon Tevlin reported in the Star Tribune, Vennes' home was raided by federal authorities on September 24, and "[a]ccording to a federal search warrant affidavit, Vennes was a facilitator who persuaded five major investors to invest $1.2 billion in companies controlled by Petters. The document says Vennes collected more than $28 million in commissions for his work."

Read the rest here:

http://minnesotaindependent.com/17098/norm-coleman-like-michele-bachmann-wrote-pardon-letters-on-behalf-of-petters-associate-frank-vennes-jr