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July 7, 2007
sympathy, from me anyway
I was very saddened to hear Jim Capozzola died.
Yeah, shocking. Conservative mentioning a liberal guy.
But I remember when he started his blog. Back then, there were about 200 popular political blogs in total, so you knew of people. Whether you agreed with them or not. It was a small town kind of atmosphere, at least, when you compare it to today's insanity.
I wanted to read more about Jim so I ended up (via google) on the fine Huffington Post.
Let's see what Jim Capozzola's lefty compadres had to say:
WEAK STOMACH WARNING...what you are about to read is vile.
What we really need is help with actual survival. Most of us need health insurance. We need computers. In fact, the single biggest thing you could do is set up a program that would give free laptops to bloggers, because so many of us live hand to mouth and when our computers go, we're silenced
Unreal. Lefties wanting strangers to provide for them. Free laptops. Handouts. But it gets better....
And what did his talent and dedication get him on the liberal side of the political noise machine? Some free books. A life that, as intellectually stimulating as it was, reduced him to living on the charity of strangers.
Noisy, yes. But I don't find liberalism intellectually stimulating, au contraire. But at least liberals are seeing one benefit to sitting around at home and blogging all day. Free books! Mental masturbation! Charity whores. Death that can be blamed on America!! YAY.
Yes, there is more from Jim's "friend" Susan Madrak:
Has it even occurred to them how much harder it is to get a "regular" job when you're publicly and politically active?
Wow, no. NEVER! I don't post my professional photography on this site for exactly that reason. Because I like to earn my own living. Much easier to say, "I can't work because I'm politically active" or just point to my maw and insist someone feed it.
What do they want, more redistribution of wealth? Hey, in that case, it's also hard to date and get married when you are publicly political. I want my fucking government matchmaking entitlement.
When does she get around to talking about Jim and his legacy? Ah here we go -- more of Huffington's finest (emphasis is mine):
There is not even a little doubt in my mind that, if The Rittenhouse Review's Jim Capozzola had remained a Republican, he'd be alive right now. He would have been in a well-paid think tank job, living the high life.
Yes, I am wiping my ass right now with a C-note. Later I will shave with diamonds. Then go have sex with my Republican boyfriend who shoots oil instead of semen. I'll give birth to a young oil well in about 9 months. No gifts. Instead send thanks to Halliburton, by earning more stock.
What in the name of truth (to power) is wrong with the left?
A guy died, and they can't even say something nice about him?
You know, "Jim loved the color blue, fought to impeach our President and liked to attend pro-choice rallies". I suppose, had Jim died during the Clinton administration, he'd still be alive today.
Perhaps John Edwards can channel his spirit, and speak for him in front of a jury of hard-up bloggers.
Someone dies. YES dies and all the left can do is turn it into the "bumper sticker". John Edwards is the same one who calls the war on terror a bumper sticker. By all means, he is the expert.
Ann Coulter recently had to readress something she wrote 3 years ago about John Edwards and his "ask me about my dead son" bumper sticker.
The other day we had Al Gore, who claimed on The Today Show that the greatest threat to humanity was Global Warming.
I think the greatest threat to humanity and Democracy (aside from Islamic fascist nutjobs) are liberals who can't string together a thought that wouldn't fit on a bumper sticker.
Rest in Peace Jim -- you are finally free of those libshit nuts.
Posted by Moxie at July 7, 2007 12:11 AM
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Here's a surprising bit of news I found in that same comment thread:
...the Right has set up a Wingnut Welfare system that employs, compensates and rewards an army of hack propagandists, many of them bloggers.
Where do I sign up? I want my Halliburton stock certificates NOW.
Posted by: Mike LaRoche at July 7, 2007 1:49 AM
I think they were referring to Uncle Aubrey's teat...Raj, Rerun and Pajamas Media all nurse off it.
They have Michelle Malkin (whom I love), and maybe three others of value. The rest? Meh.
Posted by: Moxie at July 7, 2007 2:01 AM
"...the Right has set up a Wingnut Welfare system that employs, compensates and rewards an army of hack propagandists, many of them bloggers."
Its an example of the left's accusing others of what they themselves do. In this case, the left has long since set up interlinking, mutually supporting job/career industries that promote their ideology and provide employment for themselves, their children, and their supporters. These insdustries are enormous: Unions, K-street, 'advocacy groups', environmentalists, gov't bureaucracies, charities, foundations and trusts, even food banks and animal shelters.
Posted by: Largecanine at July 7, 2007 9:06 PM
This post is one of your best.. and dead-spot-on. I wish I was still a hacker..I'd change all of the progressoblogs titles to "The Road To Serfdom", apologize to Hayek's ghost, and lose every bet that the p-kidz get the irony. 'Cuz if they had their way, every death of would be an opportunity to add some pavement to that road they want oh so badly for the rest of us.
Posted by: jason at July 7, 2007 9:12 PM
Wonderful post, Moxie.
Posted by: reagan80 at July 8, 2007 5:05 PM
I don't get it. Are these people saying he starved to death or something? If he had a terminal disease, how would a free computer have helped him? Apparently he had been ill for some time and therefore unable to work steadily -- how would being a Republican have made him wealthier and healthier? I registered as a Republican a few years ago and I'm still waiting for my diamond tiara and the Bentley I was promised. Oh wait -- I wasn't promised a damn thing, and never expected to be.
I vaguely remember getting into some sort of scrim with him on an issue I now forget, but I haven't thought of him in ages. Still, he seemed to deserve -- not free stuff and a titanium immortal body designed by Halliburton, but a bit better of a sendoff than "the dirty Republicans killed him!"
These people have rocks in their heads.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at July 8, 2007 5:09 PM
Dead on! Now that was an old school Mox post. One of your best...
Posted by: J at July 8, 2007 5:29 PM
Are these people saying he starved to death or something? If he had a terminal disease, how would a free computer have helped him?
Andrea, yes, I believe he had a terminal illness exacerbated by his lack of GOP membership card and a computer he had to pay for himself.
Like you, I have no idea how a "free" computer would have fixed him, or how being Republican makes you immune from illness. My own dear friend Cathy Seipp passed away in March, and she was a Republican. Life is terminal 100% of the time.
More and more "progressive" means to me -- taking one tragedy and twisting it -- to make progress in an unrelated partisan cause.
Total rocks and shit for brains.
Posted by: Moxie at July 8, 2007 5:35 PM
She explains what happened to him here. But I still don't see how a new computer or being a republican -- or even socialized medicine -- would have saved him. Sometimes medicine just can't help (my grandmother died of almost exactly the same medical catch-22).
Posted by: Tanya at July 9, 2007 8:45 AM
Posted by: neo at July 9, 2007 10:25 AM
The assumption of many advocates of socialized medicine is that the same types of treatment would be available as under the current system, on demand, with the same rate of technical progress, only it would all be "free". How anyone can look at those countries that actually have socialized medicine, and believe this, is beyond me.
Posted by: tschafer at July 9, 2007 11:41 AM
Actually, his lack of health insurance and money to pay full price probably meant he got the sort of healthcare that is equivalent to that available to people in countries where medical care is heavily socialized, and therefore restricted. In fact, there was no need for him to avoid the care he needed because he couldn't pay -- just set up a payment plan on a sliding scale, poor people do it all the time in Florida. He was probably just afraid of running up an endless debt, but many financial institutions are understanding of medical debts as long as you pay whatever you can steadily. And isn't your health worth more than your credit rating?
Posted by: Andrea Harris at July 9, 2007 4:35 PM
And isn't your health worth more than your credit rating?
Well, it's a hell of a lot better than being dead.
Posted by: SondraK at July 9, 2007 4:46 PM
You guys are obviously not liberals.
Posted by: Moxie at July 9, 2007 5:01 PM
came to this a week late after some vacation.
I am sorry for the loss. He sounded like a decent enough guy in a time when personal connections despite political differences is becoming rarer.
the post you linked to is an example of the fundamental differences between the rank & file of both parties. There is simply no way that I could conceiveably blame any friend's death on the political policy of the governing party.
Death is a personal time for reflection and mourning, not political opportunism. These posters do not inhabit a world in which I disagree politically; they do not inhabit any world i recognize.
Paul Wellstone's funeral could only have happened on the left
Posted by: rod at July 13, 2007 1:40 PM
