There was a comment posted yesterday that I think was saying that we edit or refuse to post comments that we do not agree with. I say think because the comment was hard to understand. I reprint it here for your convenience:
Sounds like someone is making excuses for editing or deleting comments that he doesn’t agree with. Chicken shit bloggers always fail.
If your commenters are hurting your ego, maybe you ought to rethink your incorrect conspiracy theories.
To my knowledge every legitimate (non spam) comment that has been sent in has been posted. There may have been an instance where I edited out some vulgarity.
I don’t know why this blog is getting spam. The service we are using catches several bogus messages every day. When I set the site to allow all comments to be published automatically, some spam messages get through. This is an inconvenience to those who get an email from the site when activity is posted.
I choose to vet comments from new posters before they are published. Those who have commented more than a few times are evidently white-listed and their comments go through without delay. I have published every comment that seemed to me to not be spam. I plan to continue to do so and I also reserve the right to edit comments to keep them civil, although most on this blog are civil.
It appears that the same person who made the comment also has his own blog. I do not know that they are the same people but I do know that the names match.
He published this yesterday about ElPasoSpeak and it’s readers. While I appreciate the different point of view, I have great difficulty understanding why some people feel the need to get personal or to try to put words in someone’s mouth.
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
Take it as a compliment towards you and your blog. My belief is that this young man is just expressing feelings of inferiority when he attacks you like a third grader.
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Let’s also keep in mind that this is also the same brain-dead nut who was stupid enough to waste a fortune on trying to sell us a ton of “Keep El Paso Backwards” shirts, bumper stickers, key chains etc. The one time he ran for office, and we’re talking about JUST a primary, he recieved a whopping 5 votes. (That’s an exaggeration, but not by much.) DK is not “politically astute,” but rather just plain stupid. And when he accuses of being “conspiratorial,” he’s really talking about himself 100 times over and here’s why: not long ago he posted that ‘lf Larry Romero is elected, he’ll do the bidding of the westsiders.’ ‘Romero hates whites.’ ‘Holguin hates whites.’ ‘Holguin hates women.’ ‘Carl Robinson hates Joyce because he is a misogynist.’ ‘Norma Chavez apparentlyl weilds a lot of influence/power.’ ‘Shapleigh – the Shapleighites want to reclaim some power.’ Clearly, DK is nuttier than a bag full of nuts. But here is where it gets really good: Read his latest comment about what he thinks about the stadium. (6/27/2013, 3:12pm) l’ve spent at least a year on various blogs mentioning what a financial disaster this stadium is, and after you read his comment, you’d think that he hates the stadium deal worse than l do. lt seems that he’s “suffering” from a moment of sanity by using phrases like, ‘being sparsely attended after a few years’ and ‘costing us 2 million a year to operate.’ Unfortunately, l have a feeling that his embracement of reality is just temporary.
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The bad news is, is that l screwed-up big time when l posted that Davey Krapforbrains mentioned that the stadium was a bad deal. He was referring to the arena (another disaster on the horizon) and l was too dumb and tired to carefully read what he said. This does NOT cancel my accurate portrayal of all of those other lunatic-y things that he has posted. The good news: l’m going to be extra brilliant in pointing out why the stadium is a nightmare of a deal. ‘The hotel tax will pay for most of it.’ ln other words, the stadium can’t pay for itself so we’re going to tax an entity that has NOTHING to do with AAA baseball and call this “stadium wealth generation.” Unless an out-of-towner says to himself, “Gee, l hear that EP has a baseball stadium, and l’m going to go there just to see a game. And l think l’ll stay overnight in one of their hotels.” That probably lS our hotel industry benefitting from the stadium, but what l just described is only a microscopic # of people, if even that many. ‘ The rent has doubled, so this means that we’ll have this baby paid-off in no time.’ $400000 + the microscopic amount collected in parking + junkfood MIGHT add up to an anemic annual 1% on a $60 million investment. lt’s much worse than that, and here’s why: TRUE WEALTH can only be obtained by the stadium from non-915ers for the obvious reason that if one of our locals purchases $500 in baseball stuff and then decides that he’s not going to buy $500 for the football season like he usually does, then the city did NOT collect extra taxes. Do you really believe that even lF 1000 Juarez-ians attend every game that they were not otherwise planning on spending $ in El Paso, that this is going to financially “save us?” You know the answer, and you should also know that your professor is now WAAAY too tired, which means…..CLASS DISMISSED!
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Only In El Paso,
I thought for a very brief moment about responding to some of the blatant inaccuracies and wrong-minded thinking in DK’s recent comments about the ballpark contract and the economics of the deal, but I realized I don’t have a full day to spare. There’s that much wrong in his babbling. Despite what he says, he has no grasp of contracts, business and finance; or even basic math for that matter. Generally, when a person spends a much time as he does calling everyone else a racist, it generally reflects their own bigotry and prejudice. He can keep telling himself and everyone else how smart he is, but it won’t change reality.
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David can’t help himself. He failed here in El Paso and had to work for mom and dad. He had to move away to get a job and that sticks in his craw. He is an asshole and I believe it was passed down from his mom. She is one too. She is the one posting as MEK from what I can tell. His father seems to be a good guy though.
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As my Mamma used to say, “consider the source.” In addition to the above commentary about the “man” and his character– all of it verifiable by the endless litany of anger-filled rants in his blog (better that he express his anger in his blog than out with the public)– consider these other tidbits, also gleemed from his extreme anger and self-hatred therapy blog exercise:
* he is a self-admitted liar who under the pressure of litigation, had to issue a poorly written public apology and admit to lying for no reason in his sporadically read blog at the time according to him (the deposition is out there and his mea culpa on his therapeutic blog record)
* you’ll often find he’s for things that he was against or vice versa or against that except for this, like say a triple AAA stadium but against an arena. He’ll probably be for that too eventually depending on which way the favoring winds blow.
* He’s seems angry that he, a white man of some means, could do no better than UTEP, so he attacks his alma mater and anyone who is succesful and happened to attend a perceived better school (it must kill him that his self-created nemesis, former TX State Rep., Norma Chavez, graduated from UT Austin). That by the way is just our crazy perception, not fact.
* he has written about his own personal financial woes and inability to handle credit reaponsibly, but he not only wrote credit history didn’t matter, he’s now in a position to render judgment on public spending and proper fiscal management, as well as the financial feasibilty of public projects.
* he majored in journalism apparently according again to his own words, but instead depended on his parents for several of his adult years. But journalism is a tough profession these days. He’s referred to that training to attack reporters whose views don’t fit his agenda dujour (the EPT and its employees stopped being hated on). To his credit, his training is evident as he writes very well… even his hate-filled rants.
* he seemingly failed in DC once– although no one really knows if he ever really was a lobbyist or worked at Subway and maybe he set the record straight. few really care other than he speaks with airs of insider knowledge and the best of the pundits. Maybe he’s just an armchair pundit like all those glued to Fox News, MSNBC and a couple on his blog.
* he’s back in DC, far removed from El Paso politics, but still in the opinion captain’s chair. Many say, he’s a lobbyist hobknobbing with the powerful political establishment, but he’s never said that we think or to our knowledge corrected such wrong assumptions. Maybe he is. Maybe he golfs with Paul Ryan and Ted Cruz every Sunday. Maybe he just delivers water on Capital Hill. Who cares. But he is deemed to be in that political blogging category, no? Either way, you would think thousands of miles beween him and progress-laden DC and backward El Paso would quell the hate and anger. Apparently not.
Hell hath no fury like an angry, scorned and rather fickle blogger. (Read his response in his blog… He seems to scours the internet for comments about him, it makes him infamous if not popular at least)
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It is always fascinating to read the stern words of those so afraid of standing behind them that they use a fake name to share them. Any one word I write under my real name is stronger than 10,000 words of someone afraid to own them with their own name.
I could spend all day rebutting the total nonsense here, but the fact that the cowards are afraid to use their own name (as are the purveyors of this blog) is enough to let anyone know they are flat out lying. Anyone telling the truth has no problem attaching their name to it. Anyone lying has every reason not to identify themselves.
My family has lost millions due to our inability to sit by and act anonymously. Being an honest, up front person has its drawbacks. Although, the benefits are astounding. I can say that acted when it was needed. You can’t claim anything – anonymous is nothing and nothing does nothing.
You all wonder why you can’t make a difference and you haven’t even looked at yourself. If you don’t like what’s going on – say it from your own voice. If you think commenting anonymously on the internet will change anything, you’re obviously not all that upset about the direction of things.
My blog remains a place where no one will read your post before it is posted. I almost cater to all of you spineless anonymous people who make your protest in a manner that makes it meaningless. On the day that we declared our independence, I think about how YOU would have been a loyalist and not a revolutionary when it came down to it. People were willing to take on the greatest army on earth to secure freedom and you won’t even use your name to bitch about bond rates. You fail the founders of this country.
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DK,
Whenever I think about responding to one of your self-indulgent, self-important posts, the first thing that always flashes through my mind is the Saturday Night Live point/counterpoint skit in which Chevy Chase always let Jane Curtin speak first, after which he responded: “Jane, you miserable slut.”
That always brings a smile to my face. So, please keep embarrassing yourself. I’ve decided to just sit back and enjoy watching you become increasingly unraveled. I can’t speak for Brutus and the powers that be, but please feel free to stop by any time.
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I’m just enjoying being the topic of your most commented post. You will learn like other bloggers – I’m a bigger draw than your thoughts will ever be. So do yourself a favor – mention me more often if you want the clicks.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pseudonyms_used_in_the_American_constitutional_debates
Even the great David K used Brad Kanus on the old El Paso forum.
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Ah, isn’t Davey Krapforbrains just wonderful! He now thinks he’s George Washington incarnate! It’s interesting how you’ve spent all day CLAIMING you could spend all day rebutting our words. Heh heh heh heh. You’ve implied that (unlike me) that you’ve “made a difference.” lf “making a difference” means: FAILING on the radio, FAILING to sell any of that stupid merch on your blog, FAILING to get more than 5 votes, FAILING to help your parent’s company so that they could afford to pay you a decent wage, FAILING to get the people that you want elected to get elected, and FAILING at having ANYONE in this town to hire you (either in the public or private sector) to be their assistant. BTW- that piece that you wrote where Shapliegh and Ray Caballero are “secretly” controlling Newspapertree, that’s precisely the type of “black helicopter” nonsense that we’ve come to expect from you. You see Davey, your not JUST a mindless clown, you’re OUR mindless clown! And that’s why we love you! xoxo
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