When we last left dsteelman1, he'd won a IHC-CIA -sponsored trip to the Middleastern country of his choice to whack as many prisoners he could work into his 10-day vacation. Unfortunately, the tickets remain in our Hartville mail drop awaiting pick-up. Now, he's proferring a suggestion that the State of Ohio can clear out its bloated prisons by shooting all of its "violent" prisoners and then move in the "misdemeanor' folks" to fill the vacuum. And, we assume, save dreaded government jobs for the (mostly) lesser class, though he fails to mention that windfall
Im almost in the Marley camp on this one. Im hoping for a little more in the anarchy department .
ANyone who thinks all the prisoners are just misunderstood victims of their upbringing, please start protesting to get ALL of them released.
It would be like Mad max in this state. Maybe then some of you criminal lovers would get a dose of reality.
You want better prisons?? Then make the prisons for the 'misdemeanor ' folks.
Shoot all the violent offenders. You would have plenty of room then. Lower taxes due to less people in prison. I say its a win-win.
But most people today think the criminals have an excuse for thier crimes and will moan and cry if they are really punished( death penalty ) for their crimes.
Someone on here said we have 4 million people in the prison system. How bout we shoot all the violent ones and see how fast people shape up??
We also have a (for now) nicer kinder ohiodude hinting that convicted felons are all Democrats headed for the Halls of Congress and the Whitehouse:
ohiodude wow, here are more democrats that can run for office. since they no longer have to live in cells, maybe one can perhaps make it to congress, the house of representatives and maybe the white house too!
We thereby name dsteelman1 Village Idiot of the Day, October 16, 2009. ohiodude is our runnerup.
For more news on both, go to the Cast of Characters; Plotlines sidebar and click them on. (be sure to look at labels with "marks.)
Finally, we repeat what we wrote last month:
We find it amusing, if that is the correct word, when law-and-order, Constitution-carrying Reppies shred their beloved and favorite legal document when it comes to crime, criminals, and execution. Seems the Constitution and its protections are only for well-behaved, law abiding citizens. Like them.
We've been through this before, but what is it about people who escape Can-Town and make a name for themselves that engenders so much hatred in the locals? In other cities there's such a thing as "pride of place," or put more crassly, civic boosterism. In Canton, however, home town hero-ism, has been usurped by home town class envy-ism. What would Andy Hardy do?
A few weeks ago we learned that Grammy winner and Canton native Macy Gray was scheduled to be a contestant on Dancing with the Stars. The vile comments that followed earned Ohio Dude--real name David Crowe-- a coveted VOID Award. Here's what Dave wrote then:
this slut is a wacked out druggie.........she could not sign the national anthummmm??duh??? at the hof game. the flyover almmvp dc are you on drugs?
In a later thread, Crowe...er we mean Ohio Dude... continued his trope, but the comment was removed before IHC got around to archiving it. We believe Mr. Dude has watched too many Maury shows.
We now have two new sets of carps and complaints about our Ms Gray, though Mr. Dude is, so far, AWOL. Exiled to the the Rep's basement to play with some of Octopuppet's imaginary friends? But when he slid down the chute, it looks like a couple of OP's imps crawled up to entertain and enchant us with their insightful dance critiques. These are especially critical to our enjoyment of Gray's performance since some of them never bothered to watch the show, giving truth to the old critics complaint, "Did fill-in the-critic's name see the same fill-in-the-blank as I did?
Nobody says it better than Octo. What do you think? Or are these comments some cheap imitation? Only its ISP knows for sure.
bella09 She cant even put a coherent sentence together. Looked half stoned like always
zulu726 Last time the Rep seen it fit not to let me comment. So here we go again- She can't SING or DANCE.. Two- Three songs to Fame.. I think not.. SHE is not ALL that..
jen101400 I agree Bella09 - what a shame - is this really someone that the paper should be showcasing so much that everytime she just makes a fool of herself - what example is she showing?
bella09 Exactly, she certainly cannot dance thats for sure. No personality either just a half dazed look. More of Cantons finest. Embarassingisnt it
great life I did change my channel! Another black eye for Canton!
AmyC Macy looked stoned out of her mine & is very rude!! Did she actually graduate from high school? Wow-she can't even put a sentence together.
cal2410 Where are all the Macy fans that were supporting her in the article the other day? She was an embarrassment to Canton, Ohio AGAIN. Jet lag? Really?? I don't think so. Please let her be voted off soon and let her go back to her chemically induced haze.
amboo64 Who cares? Does anyone remember her rendition of the national anthem prior to the Hall of Fame Game several years ago.
She has a voice that sounds like nails on a chalkboard. She has trouble communicating verbally. As for Grammys - They gave Amy Winehouse a Grammy - obviously talent isn't a criteria.
Cant sing AND cant dance. LOL She should hang it up and go be a parent to her children. Oh wait, she's having too much fun living her own life while someone elses raises her kids. It don't get better then that, eh?
ashielu Maybe if she cleaned up her nasty, foul languaged mouth she would still be on there. People from all over the country vote, not just Canton. Way to show off Canton's finest again Macy! First you don't know the lyrics to our National Anthem on national television, and then you curse on national television with the 'f' word. Yes, she is something to be proud of Canton. Way to go, Macy! I am glad she is off of there and I don't even watch the show on regular basis. I watched it this week to see what she would pull.
As far as we know masochism (other than hard unrequited work) is not a prerequisite for success. After reading these and similar comments, we have to wonder why Canton escapees would be willing to return to town, even for a wedding or funeral.
Perusing our copy of the Stark County Wall of Fame, and other sources we find the following native sons and daughters from the entertainment field (and we know there's more): Irving Barnes, David Canary, Frank DeVol, Peggy Ann Garner, Shirley Givens, Dorothy Gish, Lillian Gish, Marilyn Manson, Bek Nelson, Jack Paar, Jean Peters, Tom Poston, Marlee Jo Sabo, Pat Shannon, BozSkaggs, The OJays, Blanche Thebom, and Joe Vitale. (Does Mother Angelika count?)
As we look back on our long and beautiful life, we don't remember hearing much good about any of these upstarts except Frank DeVol and David Canary (probably because he played football for Massillon and some people don't think of the soap star as anything but Candy on Bonanza.) We don't remember the Gish Sisters darkening the Stark County doorstep much after they left (though Dorothy once held court at a downtown Massillon kissing booth during a World War 1 bond drive. We had a friend whose mother attended high school with Jean Peters (right) and we were regaled with stories of the actress' sluttish East Canton student career, which apparently qualified her for nothing better than to make blockbuster movies and marry low life Howard Hughes, a scandal East Canton took years to recover from. We also heard unverified stories of an ungrateful Jack Paar telling a fan who showed up at funeral of the TV star's mother, to buzz off. And let's not get started on Brian Warner, who a few years ago told Rolling Stone that he loves Canton. Too bad the feeling isn't mutual.
Full Disclosure: We were looking forward to watching Macy Gray (and Tom Delay) and through no fault of our own (nothing is ever our fault) we missed the show We found Macy's performance on YouTube below. We admit she looked a little stiff, but having suffered through Forced Ballroom Dancing 101 at the Reynolds-McIllvaine Dance Studio, we feel her stiffness. And we don't like to lose either!
Woe be to anyone from Canton who escapes the boundaries of our little Hateopolis and goes on to lead a successful life in the real world. We saw this weekend what poor regard our Reppies hold for the O'Jays, the tremendously successful R&B group that has kept its hometown roots alive and well, much to the dismay of local cranks. The O'Jays aren't alone.
Today we have singer Macy Gray. Ms Gray, unfortunate enough to be born here, but smart enough to get out before permanent social warp set in, is the recipient of numerous music awards: American Music Awards, Billboard Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, Soultrain Awards, and 5 Grammies. She will be a contestant in this season's Dancing with the Stars scheduled to start on September 21. Other contestants include Michael Irvin, Donny Osmond, Kelly Osbourne, and the improbable Tom Delay. You'd think in the spirit of hometown niceness, our Reppies could at least wish her luck. But remember. This is Canton and they are Reppies.
The thread became so abusive that it was shut down late this afternoon. Before the thread went dark, we collected early comments. "Unfortunately," we were unable to retrieve later racist posts before they were axed. For a taste of how bad they got sample"ohiodude" below.
New Dancing with the Stars Cast Revealed Jayhawk_in_OH Just don't let her open her mouth. gmorris Man the producers are real desperate!!!!! They have mostly has beens anyway on this show.
taxedtoomuch Who cares?
Doreen Big whooptiedoo. Ooopsing the National Anthem should have been an embarassment to her and her mother. How was she a good influence to the kids at Souers when she didn't even attend there? I agree, her mother is an awesome lady. But I don't hold her in the same regard. A good influence does not lie about their age nor do they have children only to have their parents raise them. Sorry, my opinion.
ohiodude this slut is a wacked out druggie.........she could not sign the national anthummmm??duh??? at the hof game. the flyover almmvp dc are you on drugs? pt-king Other reasons to cheer for Donny Osmond....he's got morals, he's got God, and he is truly just a really nice guy.
And lest we forget that no good deed goes unpunished in Canton, we have Pizza Hut Delivers 100 Pizzas to Salvation Army. Who would complain about that, you might ask. jdawg987, that's who. We had no idea that Pizza Hut had become a subsidiary of Stark County taxpayers.
jdawg987
honestly people, there is someone flipping the bill for this. Probably tax payer money, this is ridiculous. My opinion is people who go to soup kitchens are the same people pan handling and asking people for money downtown. They need to stop mooching off society and get a job
As usual, its difficult to judge who is the bigger idiot. We'll cut the Macy Gray naysayers loose, using them as an example of native negativity. (Have you noticed more and more people are complaining about the general negativity of posters?) today and cut to the chase.
Who better than "ohiodude," IRL old Rep regime poster, David Crowe, to exemplify Canton's attitude toward successful and famous natives. Would he have been equally generous in his praise for world renowned mezzo soprano Blanche Thebom, a 1935 graduate of McKinley High School? Probably.
We can't, however, forget jdawg'sattack on charity--and those who receive it. Even badlarry liked the story. What kinda of a guy begrudges kids a pizza? We know.
So, in the name of fairness, we name "ohiodude" and "jdawg" co-recipients of the August 17, 200i Village Idiot of the Day Award.
I Hate Canton planned to post from Ohio's Heart of Darkness, but between fighting off thugs and developing cultural critique, there was just no time. We have returned from our brief sojourn to the jungle and expect to catch up, or at least pick up where we left off.
I Hate Canton is surprised (if that is the correct word) at the hatred SARTA riders engender in the anti-tax crowd. Having spent 25 years using the old Canton City Lines/RTA, we feel your pain to an extent. Buses back then were full of noisy high school students (including ourself) and wrinkly old babbas dressed in black dresses and witch shoes, pounding their canes and babbling away in Greek, Italian and Yiddish. These undoubtedly illegal alien grannies of an earlier generation should have been thrown into camps for not learning to speak the Queens's English and refusing to shop the Hattie Carnegie line at Stern & Mann's. Instead, these sleeper socialists were allowed to ride the bus on the cheap and formulate SARTA socialism for a future generation of layabouts.
And don't remind us of the bus drivers. I Hate Canton had one RTA driver on the South Market route who whiled away his boredom starring in his mirror and up the dresses of female passengers. (He bragged his hobby to us, though we already suspected it). Around 1974 we had a cute blond early- morning Country Fair-area driver who informed us he liked to drop acid before starting his day's sojourn through the streets of Can-town. We liked to believe that wasn't true, but his driving, while adequate, didn't lie. To this day, when we take a bus, we fortify ourselves with a couple quick hits of Wild Irish Rose before heading out the door, and hope for the best.
Nothing has prepared us, however, for comments posted the last few days after SARTA announced major layoffs and route cutbacks. Not only did Reppies exhibit jumpin' joy over tax leeches (union bus drivers, mechanics) losing their jobs, but took particular enjoyment that SARTA riders might now be forced to live like car-driving, law-abiding, tax-paying citizens, instead of the entitlement tax cheats they are.
Until we read these comments we had no idea that public transportation is welfare. We had no idea that we personally are tax chislers, welfare queens, and entitlement whores. We had no idea that bus riders were spendthrifts and that the old and feeble who need to get someplace were poor money managers, bad social planners, and a drain on taxpaying society. We had no idea that buses aren't a normal mode of travel. Having spent an inordinate amount of time in large American and European cities with buses, and trams, and subways, and trains that the majority of people--even the "rich"--use to get around, we can only guess that none of our Reppies have ever left the confines of Canton, Ohio.
"Unfortunately," some of the worst Reppie comments have been removed, including our favorite, the one that referred to SARTA riders as "shoplifters." That lack, however, will not stop us from dedicating today's Village Idiot Award to those anonymous Reppies who rank public transportation up there with Lenin's First 5-Year Plan. Current comments appear below in general "subject" order rather than chronologically.
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IS NOT NEEDED: I DON'T USE IT past7971 Sorry public-transit fans, but SARTA has been a financial waste of tax dollars since it began. As for checking any national public transportation website for facts--Please be serious. I really get a kick out of these 'cost-savings' they promote. What do they base their cost to drive personal cars on--a brand new Lexus or Escalade??? I have a very dependable S10 pickup that gets 30 mpg i paid $500 for years ago. It costs tax-payers millions so people can ride this wasteful 'service' for $1.50 !!! How about this, raise the fare to $5.00 to help cover these expenses. As I've heard the levy supporters say---thats just the cost of a pack of cigarettes, a Starbucks coffee or a McDonalds lunch. If you cant afford that, you obviously cant afford to go to the mall anyways."
CJ74U2NV
To the poster that said it only costs $1.50 to ride the bus....YOU ARE WRONG. You might only put $1.50 in the fare box, but my tax dollars are putting in the rest it costs to shuttle your rear end around the county. If I could get MY fare money back that I don't even use, I could reduce my auto costs significantly.
For what it's worth, I ride my bike to work. It costs you AND me nothing.
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IS NOT NEEDED: DON'T WORK IF YOU DON'T OWN A CAR CJ74U2NV Why in the world would you take a job that is driving distance when you don't have a car to drive? This is Stark County, not Fulton County Georgia (that's Atlanta for the geographically challenged here) where buses and trains are full during rush hours and on weekends. I've never seen a SARTA bus half full let alone completely full. If it were run like a private business it would close, but since it's government, they just keep wasting money so some politicians can say they have a nice public transportation system like the big cities do."If Stark County actually had a real need for this service then it would be self sufficient. The problem is the people that believe in the 'entitlement state'.
SARTA AND SARTA RIDERS = POOR FINANCIAL PLANNERS UNLIKE ME
zedsdeadbaybee
Justiav: We are ALREADY 'helping' by giving SARTA MILLIONS in our tax dollars.
If its not enough, I'm sorry, but they need to LIVE WITHIN THEIR MEANS LIKE THE REST OF US!
SARTA = TAX CHISLERS
rincanton
Shut it down. If SARTA can't stand on its own 4 wheels, it must be because they burn a whole lot of fuel driving empty buses around. Government waste at its best. Wonder how many of those employees are union.
Clarence Beeks
More government subsidized WASTE. Ironically, the majority of SARTA riders don't pay taxes so of course they want to keep the service around at all costs.
dsteelman1 I am simply amazed the people at Sarta arent protesting in the streets rioting that we havent passed an emergency 10% sales tax for them.
I mean really, cuts to a program??
Perish the thought yea of little job and less future , we the tax payer will be burdened very soon so you dont have to be.
ohiodude Bummer, what are all those invisible people going to do? Nearly every bus I see is 95% empty and that is that......NO MORE TAXES !!!
SARTA IS OPERATED BY THIEVES
lvmypets
Get rid of Sarta's Director of Finance! She was one of the thieves using SARTA's credit cards for personal purchases!!!
PUBLIC TRANSPORATION = SOCIALISM AND ENDANGERS AMERICAN FREEDOM csdunson
Another Gov't program that is a failure. Add it to the long list: the Post Office, SS, Fannie and Freddie, Medicare, Medicaid, AFDC, and Conrail. future failures will include: Cap & Trade and Healthcare reform. Socialism doesn't work folks. Nowhere has it been tried and succeeded. You are trading a small bit of security for a large chuck of your freedom.
I RIDE THE BUS, BUT I'M NOT ONE OF "THEM"
jessic_2001 Well I didn't read the comments until after I posted mine. It is a shame that you think most riders dont pay taxes and are scum. I am 24 working at wal-mart. Been there for two years. Work my but off and pay my taxes. Trust me it does make me sick the people that do ride and collect government moneys. I see those people to lazy to get a job and now rely on a food card. When I barely make a good wage and pay every dime out of my pocket for my family's food. If all these people would try (key word) to get a job and pay taxes they could have more money without these cuts.
OLD AND INFIRM SARTA RIDERS = LAZY TAX CHISLERS This comment deserves a special note. It is dsteelman1's response to Donna Whelan, retired school teacher, Repubican, and neighborhood activist and crime chaser--and a personal acquaintance of I Hate Canton-- who rides the bus due to personal health concerns. Ms Whelan's post appears followed by dsteelman1's response.
Donna Whelan EXCUSE ME! I actually only made it through the first 15-20 comments when I decided to make a comment. IF your health is fine, IF you think that things won't happen to you...guess again. People who ride the bus aren't beggers. I pay my $43. full fare per month. I've had a series of mini-strokes. I've CHOSEN not to drive [and not kill you all stepping on the gas rather than the break]
What dont some of you all get? Not everybody should or can drive...elderly, handicapped, ME!~ I could drive, chose not to...what art of that don't you morons don't understand?
dsteelman1 Well Donna Ill tell ya what part.
The part where paying for your ride to work takes money out of my kids mouths.
The part where some of MY money could be used to by myself a newer more reliable vehicle to get to work. For the record( 97 Suburban , 170,000 miles, no heat ,only 4th gear.)
The part where todays 'people' insist that there need of my money is so overwhelming as to describe people like me as hatemongers, wingnuts, uncaring , etc, etc.
These are a few of the 'parts' I dont understand.
What part of, we the people are having just as hard a time with paycuts , layoffs , paying bills in this economy as you or anyone else. And to top that off , we hear from people who DEMAND our money for themselves and their own needs, do you not understand
We hope that you agree that dsteelman1, who has previously argued that welfare recipients be "spayed and neutered," their "urchins" starved in the street, and that "large population centers of America aren't any safer than Iraq" deserves first prize of the day. Mr. ds1's neighbors should march on his house, confiscate his smelly SUV and pull it to the nearest junkyard leaving him desperate and carless and eventually jobless. We congratulate Ms. Whelan for not obliging ds by sticking her head in the oven. We trust she will continue her nightly raids into his kitchen to feed her greedy SARTA habit. We wonder, though, if she ought not bring a dentist with her to help extract dsteelman1's money from his children's mouths.
Second place goes to CJ74U2NV. As a bonus, he or she will be dropped off on the outskirts of Limaville for one week and expected to walk to The Strip from there. The walk will be monitored. No bike. No cheating allowed.
Tied for second place, csdunson is also dropped off in Limaville; only he or she will be flogged through a guantlet of red banners swung by the Peoples Congress of the Stark County Communist Party aka, the SARTA Board.
Third place goes to Clarence Beeks. He also gets an IRS audit.
For her psychic ability to sort out food card holders from the worthy low incomed (such as herself) we give our first I'm Not With Stupid Award to jessic_2001.
The rest of our winners receive honorable mention.
I Hate Canton needed a butterfly net to catch all the idiots scampering through the Rep yesterday. Obama. Taxes. Tea Parties, Republicans. Democrats. Socialists. Liberals. Sarah Palin. Perry Heights. Gangbangers.
Nothing though, tops the comments about Michael Jackson, specifically the comments posted by ohiodude about MJ. It takes a special kind of person to write these things.
Read for yourself
Television Networks Planning Jackson Coverage (comment removed) ohiodude ...here is another great idea. put a hidden camera in his casket so we can watch worms and maggots craw thru his skull and bones while wiggling to the thriller soundtrack. what a beautiful service? are you nuts? this guy was a sick, kidchasing pervert who deserve's to be in prison as someone's bitch. rot in hell, jackson. too bad the family gets to fight for the money ignorant fans will be paying. he was a no good scumbag, bleached to be white yet looked like a mummy from some third rate horror movie. for you who try and twist his sickness into something non-freaky, you need mental illness help. rot in hell, jackson!
and
ohiodude
..lots of black people have adopted white's? i have never, never seen any of that. white taking in blacks, yes, but never, never blacks adopting whites!
and
ohiodude
jackson was a democrat. one down in hollywood.
and
ohiodude
yeah, that was a beautiful service. who sold all the blue-ray $10.00 sunglasses? why were there no rhinestones around the rims? all the tears really tore me up. my heart crys with pain of the loss. oh, i was talking about the indians. they lost again. bad season. can't wait for the browns to beat the steelers. heard some pervert died?
Motorcade Leaves Michael Jackson's Parents' Home (all comments removed) ohiodude rot in hell you pervert. may the worms crawling in your eyesockets enjoy the yummy treat. sick sick and sick are your supporters like the postings saying ' not a dry eye'? burn, baby, burn!
Kinda makes ya proud to be a Cantonian, huh?
We are thrilled to name ohiodude Village Idiot of the Day, July 7, 2009. May the worms turn in your skull. Oh, that's right. They already have.
PS: You'll find ohiodude here also, where he ridiculed the mentally retarded. What a winner!
The abuse of dead children continues to be a Rep Wrecker theme. We hesitate to classify these cheap shots as village idiocy. After all "idiocy" is generally a sign of abject cluelessness or purposeful ignorance. Using or attacking dead children to hurt posters, is simply evil.
I Hate Canton believes that psychic pedophiles should be held up to public ridicule and scorn. It would be even better, of course, if these deviants posted under their real names, so their neighbors and friends could know them for what they are and treat them appropriately. The vampires, of course, know this and would as soon ascribe their name to their demented comments as they would move to North Korea.
After deliberation, we have decided to forgo our Daily Village Idiot Award today, and once more focus on the continuing abuse of dead children.
We Want Justice Not Revenge. Instead of discussing the horrible tragedy of the Eakin/Mammone murders and respecting the dead, LevypassedEveryonegetsaraise takes up space lobbing a hatchet into Mary Parker's heart, mocking the death of her profoundly retarded son, while at the same time trivializing the Eakin/Mamonne murders.
All of these these remarks have been removed by the Rep:
LevypassedEveryonegetsaraise
This is a terrible tragedy but I still think the MRDD levy passing was much, much worse.
LevypassedEveryonegetsaraise
hey mary v. aint ya glad ya got the levy passed now. your credibility is buried deeper than you know who
hahahahahahaha
Collaterial Damage: Levy's comment on harasxlacidar's remark that she knew James Mammone from taking a class with him at Kent -Stark, and found him creepy. Under normal circumstances this post would qualify for a Village Idiot citation:
LevypassedEveryonegetsaraise harasxlacidar,
I think you and the other girls were pretty safe. Generally guys like Mammone are only interested in the attractive girls. So you and the other moo cows were probably never in any danger, in my opinion.
MRDD Eliminates Jobs to Cut Costs Let's not forget Ohio Dude. Mr. Dude has turned verbal assault on the mentally and physically disabled and their families into an art worthy of a Brown Shirt on a drunk. This remark has been removed by the Rep.
Ohio Dude keep cuting the fat until we can take off the constant tax increases........for the blind fools that voted for this, for the mooches that live off our limited income, for the 'for the disabled' patrons, enjoy. never, never vote for a levy !! how about a revote??? how about a redo? this is bull !! Hey Mary Parker, where is your bleeding heart talk now? you mrddwhinning folks are not qualified to vote !!
MORE! Then there's the non-existent "Darryl and Shirley Reddling," who posted the following awhile ago under the "We Want Justice" thread. Regular readers will recognize this comment as a direct reference to Mary Parker's regular visits to her son's grave. The post is now gone.
Darryl and Shirley Reddling
Well one day sooner or later, this fellow will be buried six feet under and then his mother and sister will be the only ones to visit his gravesite.
Never let it be said, though, that simply removing a post will remove an harasser. This showed up around 3:00 PM in the same thread. We reported it to Jeff Gauger directly and it was removed within minutes. Thanks, Jeff!
M R Dede
If you want to doublepunish this clown, after his death sentence and lethal injection, bury him next to that cantankerous old bats' offspring. Then for all eternity, (or at least until Satan calls her home), he will have to listen to her b*tch and moan about every topic under the sun on her weekly visits. That would serve him right.
I Hate Canton cannot even begin to comprehend the cruelty of the person or persons (and we bet dollars to doughnuts who is making these remarks) who post this vileness. And we cannot comprehend what Mary Parker has done to deserve this vile treatment. Words really fail.
Earlier today, Mary posted her response to this cruelty on Jeff Gauger'sblog. If I get Mary's permission I will post it here too.
Today we have singer Macy Gray. Ms Gray, unfortunate enough to be born here, but smart enough to get out before permanent social warp set in, is the recipient of numerous music awards: American Music Awards, Billboard Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, Soultrain Awards, and 5 Grammies. She will be a contestant in this season's Dancing with the Stars scheduled to start on September 21. Other contestants include Michael Irvin, Donny Osmond, Kelly Osbourne, and the improbable Tom Delay. You'd think in the spirit of hometown niceness, our Reppies could at least wish her luck. But remember. This is Canton and they are Reppies.
The thread became so abusive that it was shut down late this afternoon. Before the thread went dark, we collected early comments. "Unfortunately," we were unable to retrieve later racist posts before they were axed. For a taste of how bad they got sample"ohiodude" below.
Jayhawk_in_OH
Just don't let her open her mouth.
gmorris
Man the producers are real desperate!!!!! They have mostly has beens anyway on this show.
taxedtoomuch
Who cares?
Doreen
Big whooptie doo. Ooopsing the National Anthem should have been an embarassment to her and her mother. How was she a good influence to the kids at Souers when she didn't even attend there? I agree, her mother is an awesome lady. But I don't hold her in the same regard. A good influence does not lie about their age nor do they have children only to have their parents raise them. Sorry, my opinion.
ohiodude
this slut is a wacked out druggie.........she could not sign the national anthummmm??duh??? at the hof game. the flyover alm mvp dc are you on drugs?
pt-king
Other reasons to cheer for Donny Osmond....he's got morals, he's got God, and he is truly just a really nice guy.
jdawg987
As usual, its difficult to judge who is the bigger idiot. We'll cut the Macy Gray naysayers loose, using them as an example of native negativity. (Have you noticed more and more people are complaining about the general negativity of posters?) today and cut to the chase.
Who better than "ohiodude," IRL old Rep regime poster, David Crowe, to exemplify Canton's attitude toward successful and famous natives. Would he have been equally generous in his praise for world renowned mezzo soprano Blanche Thebom, a 1935 graduate of McKinley High School? Probably.
We can't, however, forget jdawg's attack on charity--and those who receive it. Even badlarry liked the story. What kinda of a guy begrudges kids a pizza? We know.
So, in the name of fairness, we name "ohiodude" and "jdawg" co-recipients of the August 17, 200i Village Idiot of the Day Award.