A Change in Our House Rules
A quick note to everyone, who visits and would like to leave a comment. Because of the craziness that’s occurred over the weekend in one of the posts below, and because I think it’s a cop out to “comment and run” we’ve changed the commenting feature. From now on, if you want to leave a comment on Hoosier Access, you will have to register with the site. This may affect how many comments we get at first, but I’m sure it’s something we can all get used to.
I know that vast majority of the people who leave comments are actually leaving worthwhile, engaging and conversation pursuing comments, but sometimes a few people can abuse a simple privilege and ruin it for the rest of us. I’m sorry we had to do this, but we at Hoosier Access want to keep our house a clean house with thought provoking conversation and not teenage-like ramblings. We don’t want our comment section to turn into the comment section of the IndyStar or like TDW when Jen was still around.
No more anonymous comments, no more subject titles as names and hopefully, no more comment hit and runs.
Thank you for coming to Hoosier Access and we hope you will agree with our changes.
April 13th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Have you seen the photo of Rokita’s booth at the Gay Pride Rally in Indy?
April 13th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Well WM, at least you will be known as “facts” since that is how you registered.
April 13th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
People who would like to read the comments that inspired the new “House Rules” should READ:
“When Bopp Says You Are A Conservative…”
It’s about Todd Rokita.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:05 am
facts, No I haven’t seen the photo of Rokita at Gay Pride Rally. Furthermore I don’t care. It is irrelevant to pretty much any discussion that we can have here–including painful and very long discussions on same-sex marriage.
April 14th, 2008 at 11:05 am
hey joel, is there a way to change our password to make it easier to remember?
April 14th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Go into your profile, look in the lower right hand corner for the password change widget.
April 14th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Thanks for helping out there Nathan.
April 14th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Joel,
If you haven’t seen this photo, there may be others who visit this website you haven’t seen it either.
Here’s a link to the photo:
Click Here ~ See Todd Rokita’s Booth At The Indy Gay Pride Rally
You may have to re-load the page a couple of times. It seems like a lot of people are viewing this photo.
The photo is on the American Family Association website, a Pro-Family website.
April 14th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Joel,
If the discussion of marriage is painful to you, you are doing it wrong.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Wow! The Secretary of State had a booth at a Gay Pride Rally to register voters!
And you point is?
You have brought it up without making a point in two different threads. Furthermore it has been irrelevant to the discussion of either threads. I hope you have a REASON to repeatedly post this. If you do, make the point.
The painful discussion is the fact that the discussion quickly degenerates into arguments over weird things–specifically if we are equally protecting individuals who wish to marry someone of the same sex. Browse around–we have hashed it to death.
April 14th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Facts–seriously, what is you major malfunction–so what if the secretary of stata has a booth at the gay pride rally? Are they not people too. oh and before you spout off about him not being a “True conservative” because of the photo keep in mind that the face of conservative politics is changing; much the same way that the republican party underwent the republican revolution in the 70’s under the leadership of people like dick lugar and L.keith bulen. They were the new guard at the time and now we’re the new guard.
So please at least contribute somehting of worth or not at all…
April 14th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Not to mention that you postings belong under the section dealing wit the AG’s race–not on this thread–sheesh!
April 15th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
To set the record straight (so to speak), I believe that Todd Rokita has never personally attended the Indy Pride celebration. The office of the Secretary of State under his leadership placed a booth there pursuing not only voter registration but providing education on such things as securities fraud.
A thorough review of that festival would reveal (if memory serves) that virtually every major employer in the state had a presence, including Lilly, Cummins, Chase, and Dow Agro. As Joel Harris has observed, it is becoming somewhat ridiculous to criticize a politician for having a presence at the festival. Indeed, for a politician running for office in Central Indiana, in my opinion it might today be more foolish NOT to have a presence.