Holy Cow! Our local newspaper calls teabaggers "terrorists"

[Bluzmann57]

The exact wording on the editorial says, "Congressional Terrorism".
An excerpt from the Sunday October 13 edition of the Quad City Times goes like this, ..."We use the word "terror" emphatically. What else can you call tactics the perpetrators fully intend to wreck the stock market, throw people out of work and remove any semblance of stability for economic growth?"
Good words and long overdue by media publications. This paper also endorsed Romney for PotUS. So it is fairly surprising that they would come right out and call this act of terrorism what it is.
link-www.qctimes.com. Click on opinion tab and the editorial will come right up.

[FarPoint]

1. Link to this article....

We may wish to share.

[Bluzmann57]

7. Read the entire post.

I put in a link at the bottom. I'm just not a good enough typist to type out the entire link. But here we go. www.qctimes.com. Click on the Opinion tab and the editorial will appear immediately.

[FarPoint]

8. After a second read...I

found it...thank you.

[tblue37]

16. But why BURY the link inside other letters and characters so

that it is not a link? Why not just create a direct link to the page? That is how most people do it, and it is what is most convenient for DUers.

When I copy-pasted your link into my browser, it would NOT take me to the editorial, but only to a page with the headings for the different sections of the paper. It would not bring up the actual pages at all.

Now, that is probably a problem with my Mac, for some reason, BUT I NEVER have that problem when people offer actual links to the pages they are recommending!

ON EDIT: Just as I said in my original version of this post--when an actual link is provided, I am able to go to the page with the editorial on it, whereas when I tried using the URL you provided without a link, it kept taking me to a page that just showed headings but nothing else.

When I clicked the link provided in a post below this one, I was finally able to view the page with the editorial, after several futile attempts with the URL you provided in place of a link.

[momrois]

17. Why so nasty?

[tblue37]

24. Not trying to be nasty--just wondering why you didn't give us a link, since that is standard

operating procedure.

Your later post explained why, and I suddenly realized that, like me, you are not as comfortable with computer technology as a lot of other people (especially young ones!) are these days.

I have been where you were--not knowing that I could just copy-paste a URL as a link.

And I am guessing you are from my generation, since all kids learn typing/keyboarding in school these days, as well as learning general computer skills.

When I was in school, we didn't learn to type. Only kids who went to the "commercial" or "trades" high school learned typing. Those in the college prep track didn't (because, I suppose, they assumed we would all have a secretary with a commercial high school diploma to do our typing for us).

That's why your comment about your typing skills made me think you must be in my generation--that and your not knowing how to copy-paste a URL to create a link.

Also, that is why I spelled out the steps for copy-pasting in another post, because when I didn't know how to do that with a URL from a browser bar, being told to "just cut and paste" it would have been incomprehensible to me, since at the time I didn't know what "cut and paste" or "copy-paste" meant. (If in fact you did know how to copy-paste, I absolutely did not mean my directions as an insult. I was just giving you the steps I would have needed if someone had told me to "cut and paste" as that poster had told you to do. I wouldn't have had a clue what he meant!)

By the way, neither did my deaf sister I refer to in that post, so once when I told her to do that to a URL that she wanted to send to me (since she also can't type and kept making errors that invalidated the link when she tried to type it and send it to me)

[momrois]

39. I didn't post the original

I just wondered about your tone.

[nadinbrzezinski]

40. Here

not everybody is that good with the Net

http://qctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/congressional-terrorism/article_f8a7e3a0-0779-5a25-9430-f305eb1ad682.html

[Bluzmann57]

44. Sorry to offend you

I'm a technological neophyte. I have had a computer for many years but since I have an actual life and don't spend every waking moment on the computer, I just haven't really learned to be an expert.
And I want to amend something I said earlier. I'm really not sorry about offending you. Have a great day. Peace to you and yours.

[whttevrr]

2. link

http://qctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/congressional-terrorism/article_f8a7e3a0-0779-5a25-9430-f305eb1ad682.html

[whttevrr]

3. Iowa?

Where is Quad-City?

[Buddha_of_Wisdom]

5. From my memory

Five cities.

Moline, East Moline and Rock Island in Illinois, Davenport, Bettendorf in Iowa

They border each other, so that's why "Quad Cities".

[PatrynXX]

27. yeah and I was born in one

but well because something called Farmall used to be in a few of those quads I ended up being born in Davenport. too bad it shut down not long after

[Bluzmann57]

6. Quad Cities is a two state area

Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa and Rock Island and Moline, Illinois as well as other towns and cities in the area. It has an overall population of around 300,000 residents.

[B Calm]

9. Davenport

[pangaia]

30. Where is Quad-City?

Man, get real.
Quad City Bandits.

[kestrel91316]

34. No idea. I HATE newspaper/tv websites that provide ZERO information

on where they physically are.

Are people supposed to be psychic?

[Bluzmann57]

10. Thanks

I'm not a very good typist so I don't care to type out the entire link. So the fact that you did is a blessing. DU where people can always get help from someone.

[former9thward]

13. No need to type.

Just do a cut and paste at the url address.

[tblue37]

21. AHHHH--a neo-Luddite (like me!)

If you are anything like I am about technology (and especially computers!), that bit of instruction might not suffice!

Here are the actual steps to follow:

~Click the browser bar on the page you want to link, and the URL will turn blue.
~Then right click your mouse and click "copy."
~Then point your mouse to the place in your post where you want to put the link, and then right click the mouse and choose "paste." The stuff you have just "copied" with your mouse will then paste right where you have indicated.

Once we learn to do something with our computers, we forget that not everyone already knows how--even basic stuff.

I remember when I had no idea how to create an email account and sign in to it! In August of 2000, when I came back to campus for fall term I found a computer on my desk, provided by the university. I had never used a PC before, so I had no idea how to do even the most basic things. My daughter had to come home one weekend from her first term at college to show me how to use the darned thing!

When she signed me up for a Hotmail account and also showed me how to sign in and then send emails or read and reply to those sent to me, I sat there with a little notebook, writing down every single step:

~Go to "hotmail.com" and click "sign in."
~Then type in xxxxx for my user name and xxxxx for my password.
~Then click "compose" to write a new email.
~Type in the other person's email address in this box, but type the message subject into that box. Then click "Send."
~To reply to an email, click "Reply."
~And so on!

And the first several times I used email, I actually had to use that list of steps in order to manage at all. (I really am a technophobe.)

I still can't do some of the most basic things on the computer, even though I am a prolific internet writer and use the machine constantly.

For example, I cannot find any file in my Word program if I have to know its drive path (I think that's the right name for that list of information--but of course I am not sure about that either). I can only find a file if I already know what folder it is in and can go to the list of documents and find its actual name. I have lost a lot of files that way--and I have never been able to use the "search" function to locate a file, since there always comes a point where the search box will ask for some bit of information that I have no clue about.

I lost touch with one of my sisters for 8 years because we were both too deaf to chat on the phone, and we were too ADD to successfully carry on a snail-mail correspondence. Then my sister finally got online, and when I heard that she had, I immediately sent her a long "reconnecting" email. But she didn't reply. I kept sending "Why aren't you replying" emails, until several days later, when I got an 8-page snail-mail letter from her telling me that she knew how to read my emails, but had not yet figured out how to reply to one!

In this article from my deaf website (I'm Listening as Hard as I Can!) I tell that story about my sister's initial inability to reply to my emails:

"Deaf Sisters Reunite":
http://deafnotdumb.homestead.com/reunite.html

And in this article from my Teacher, Teacher website, I relate my early inability to do even the most basic things with a computer to my responsibility as a teacher to recognize what my students don't already know and to not blame them for not already knowing what it is that I am supposed to be teaching them:

"Beginner Mind"
http://teacherblue.homestead.com/beginnermind.html

[Enthusiast]

36. I am equally inept.

Worse. I have all sort of computer problems that I suspect are of my own doing.

I would like to buy a new computer, or even a used one on E-bay, because, according to my brother, mine doesn't have enough of a certain kind of memory. But I have no idea how to move all the stuff over to the new computer. I feel so inadequate.

[nadinbrzezinski]

41. If your brother is good at this

ask him for help.

I know that one of these days I will have to do that for mom.

There is no shame really in doing that. For the record, also ask him to set an external back up for you on an external drive. He'll know, it sounds like, what I am talking about. With Apple it is extremely easy, and modern windows machines are also that easy. But do ask him.

(I need to go buy a drive and do that with all the things in the WIN machine)

[Enthusiast]

42. Thanks for the advice.

I do appreciate it.

[Bluzmann57]

45. Thanks

I really didn't intend for this thread to be an instructional on how to post links but what the hell. I guess we are never too old to keep on learning things. Peace to you and yours and hope your day has been a good one so far.

[PatrynXX]

29. I don't particularly find the arrows being thrown because you didn't

know how to cut and paste to be very effective. Took several complaints before someone bothered to post the link. Never seen anything like that. Usually someone just posts the link and no complaining.

Perhaps what you could say is you and your computer are not friends I know many people who have little knowledge on cut and paste so your not the only one. I could tell my dad 900 times how to do it and it gets no where.. Maybe DU needs a bookmarklet (ahem non computer folks ignore that) so when we see a link we can just hit that button and it pastes here Some bookmarklets are strange. Print Friendly doesn't always work in Opera. which is now a Chrome Clone

[socialist_n_TN]

4. Well if they supported Romney, they are probably......

part of the establishment wing of the Republican party and know that the Teabaggers are out of control.

[LiberalElite]

11. So far only 1 commenter out of 6

agrees with them.

[Bluzmann57]

12. Not surprising

The teahadists are very vocal around here, as they are everywhere else. But they are keyboard commandos and have no guts.
I have an account with the online edition so I suppose I'll go in and comment soon.

[47of74]

32. Same up in Dubuque too

The teabaggers up here are loud, racist, and obnoxious.

[Lancero]

14. How long before...

The local Teahadist's declare a holy war against the editorial board, and demand their heads?

[progressoid]

15. Whoa! The QC Times?

I thought they were kind of conservative.

Regardless. This is pretty amazing

We use the word “terror” emphatically. What else can you call tactics the perpetrators fully intend to wreck the stock market, throw people out of work and remove any semblance of stability for economic growth?

[leftyohiolib]

18. when they were messing with the 99% they were patriots now that this will affect the 1% NOW theyre

terrorists

[Ruby the Liberal]

19. Just a guess - blaming Congressional Dems for not "negotiating"?

[SoapBox]

20. Terrorists? Why yes they are!

THEY are going to be the destructors of America.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

22. Another crack in the wall!

Keep it up thinking people, watch your alleged friends closer in the future.

[gopiscrap]

23. Excellent

[PatrynXX]

25. Quad City Times????

O_O hey I was born in Davenport hello. Go QST!!!!

[fleabiscuit]

26. Question...

I found it ironic that paper had an advertisement at the top of their page from a bank that is FDIC backed. I have been pondering a question this morning:

If Ted Cruz and the Tea Taliban manage to shutter and default the United States does that mean that the meager savings some peeps have will NOT BE COVERED by the FDIC when banks and credit unions shutter too?

I don’t like thinking such things.

[aquart]

33. Good scary question.

Make it an OP so we can tweet the hell out of it.

[fleabiscuit]

35. Done

'Shudder' I'm nervous.

[nadinbrzezinski]

28. Full link to the editorial

http://qctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/congressional-terrorism/article_f8a7e3a0-0779-5a25-9430-f305eb1ad682.html

[Enthusiast]

38. Wow!

Shocking to read that, there.

[47of74]

31. Holy shit

If only a certain other newspaper here in Iowa would show the same level of courage.

[Uncle Joe]

37. Well the definition certainly fits.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/terrorism?s=t

ter·ror·ism/ˈtɛrəˌrɪzəm/ Show Spelled [ter-uh-riz-uhm] Show IPA
noun
1. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.
2. the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization.
3. a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/terrorization?s=t

ter·ror·ize/ˈtɛrəˌraɪz/ Show Spelled [ter-uh-rahyz] Show IPA
verb (used with object), ter·ror·ized, ter·ror·iz·ing.
1. to fill or overcome with terror.
2. to dominate or coerce by intimidation.
3. to produce widespread fear by acts of violence, as bombings.

Thanks for the thread, Bluzmann57.

[Cha]

43. They are! thanks for the report, Bluzmann

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

46. It's about time!