In particular, it seems Jay Valentine bought American Thinker - or something.
The last 4 days he's held the first position on American Thinker. Yesterday he garnered almost 700 comments, and this morning he's already at 209 comments at 6:30 am (PT), which is almost unheard of.
If you click on his name there is no info on him, but his first article for AT was back in 2009.
He's putting out a lot of truth, and truth always wins.
HERE WE GO @TheHipHopPatriot · Public Figure
AKA Jeremy Herrell
It seems like Jeremy has been kicking around for quite some time without my knowledge. How is such a thing possible? A friend sent me this video on Facecrap and I was quite impressed. It's worth the time.
About Mask Mandates
Our local city council declined to order a mask mandate. Good thing too, since I would end up in jail.
In the future anyone who tries to speak to me while wearing a filthy mask will be told to back the heck up since I don't want them spewing their germs, which are passing happily through that rag, on to me. I suggest you do the same - politely, but firmly. If they persist, you have permission to call them selfish.
Folks, those rags are germy, foul, and nasty. As my friend, Ragin' Dave , calls them - germ sponges. This new rule does not apply to the poor employees who are forced to wear one since they've already suffered enough humiliation.
I thought I'd better check in from my snowy abode (I may escape today for a bit) so you wouldn't think I'd fled the planet.
Lent started with a smashing sacrifice when I couldn't get out on Fat Tuesday to gorge on a carb laden pile of pancakes or filled doughnuts. Do I get a do-over on Fat Tuesday? Maybe LSP can give me a special dispensation to indulge today (please?)
Even worse I couldn't get out on Wednesday to attend Mass and have ashes plastered on my forehead. Sigh.
Disturbing Content
No - not the wacked out commies further pushing their anti-American agenda and their relentless pursuit of trashing our duly elected president. I resent every tax-payer dime these enemies of the state are sucking up instead of doing their jobs.
This is about a number of articles in the American Thinker from last week.
On February 28 Is a Second Civil War Coming?was posted and scooped up close to 1700 comments. The following dayAmerica's Second Civil War Has Already Begun gobbled up over 1200 comments. On March 3, they posted What does it take to start a civil war?with well over 500 comments. Then on March 6, Lloyd Marcus posted What If Trump Loses in 2020?alsowith over 500 comments. Why am I mentioning the comments? Anyone who has hung around my corner of the internet knows that I spend quite a bit of time perusing comments on articles. While I like reading what intelligent people post, I'm even more interested in how people respond. I found the responses a bit alarming. The comboxes, other than the trolls, were filled with people who were equally alarmed, but still pragmatic about the outcome of the politics of today. These were not comments from wild eyed skin- heads, but mostly well thought out responses. I've always thought the idea of Civil War was impossible. I'm not so sure anymore. I have taken my own temperature on the ignorant antics of the commies in this country and it's has soared into the brain frying area. Hoaxed
This comment from American Thinker brings me to the next subject - the documentary Hoaxed.
We are already deep into a civil war. Because much of the fighting is done with information, not hand to hand combat, most don’t see it. The war is well underway.
Not only does Mr. Robert Curry do an outstanding job with his article on the defense of the 2nd amendment, but..........wait for it - he's actually responding to comments.
There are sites who have developed a camaraderie between commenters like our beloved MOTUS A.D.andWeasel Zippers. There are other sites whose commenters are quite bright and don't need much in the way of feedback. And then there are the sites where people are yammering away in an echo chamber - cold, alone, and ignored even if asking a direct question of the author.
Taking into account the massive amount of blow-back on the way Facecrap runs its site, you would think that people would understand that commenting and having a conversation on any of the blogs or news sites would fill a big part of the need for uncensored chit chat. So when an author fails to respond to a direct query, I seldom return.
Take a moment to read Robert's fine article (he said I could call him Robert because we're all friends on American Thinker☺) and take a moment to thank him or add a bit of your wisdom to the discussion.
Tomorrow (Mon. 4/16)...
is my preliminary cataract surgery appointment which is scheduled to take most the afternoon. They will be dilating my eyes so I may or may be here.
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another example of media bias and outright silliness.
It seems someone named Marilia Duffles penned an article that was accepted by American Thinker for publication.
In this article, she, with nothing in her background to suggest expertise, has called Trump a psychopath and compared him to Mussolini and Ted Bundy. She admits that Trump is not a full-blown psychopath who kills people, but displays many of the traits of a psychopath. So do I. And so do you.
American Thinker tells us that Ms Duffles is a contributor to The American Spectator and The Financial Times, a former scientist, and worked in the Reagan and Bush I administrations.
Marilia
Duffles (2nd from left) & Former U.S. Rep. Charles Djou (2nd from
right) file Gov. John Kasich's ballot paperwork with officials from the
Hawaii Republican Party. (Stacey Djou (far left) and George Simmons
(far right) joined Congressman Djou and Ms. Duffles at the official
filing.)
Brazilian by birth and having lived in Brazil as a child and in Hawaii
since 2003, my dual-cultured heart is bursting with excitement over this
opportunity to “talk story” (as we say in Hawaii) with President Obama
as he prepares to visit President Dilma Rousseff. It is with this
spirit that I appeal to him to open his eyes and heart on this Atlantic
journey whose people will make this a nostalgic trip back to his Pacific
ohana.
And here's what I couldn't find with a cursory search this morning. I can't seem to find one single article where Ms Duffles criticized Obama for trashing the constitution. Not one. But, she feels confident that Trump will rule like Mussolini. Somehow or another the other branches of our government are just going to sit back and let Trump do whatever he wants. I don't think so. He is, after all, white. We all know the reason Obama has not been impeached. It is because he is "black" - even though he's not.
I remember not so long ago looking forward to reading The American Thinker. While I didn't always agree with every author, I did enjoy the comments and often learned as much from the regular commenters as from the authors.
Not anymore.
The combox is overrun with unfamiliar names that I suspect are paid trolls, and has sunk to the level of childish taunts and insults.
I guess there's some woman who's turning her back on technology, although she has an iPhone. The fact that it has a cracked screen and is taped up is supposed to be testimony to her creds. Ah, no.
I have nothing against technology. However, I think the people who walk around clutching a phone in their hand, or seeing every event through the pinhole of a phone are very sad creatures.
After a busy day on Saturday having our car hauled out a snow bank in our driveway again (we've become a legend and a joke at the towing company), I was able to finally get someone out to plow our driveway. I actually called one person who said he didn't want to do it because he "might break his plow." I kid you not. The tow truck driver recommended someone because he felt my pain and probably figured our Allstate towing bennies may be running low. I called, and this wonderful man, who works with his little fur ball of happiness Pomeranian doggie, Wendy, showed up in 30 minutes and cleared our driveway. He charged $35.00. I gave him $60.00, and a big stack of fresh out of the oven sugar cookies.
He also does landscape work, and if our regular tree guy can't come out this spring, he promised to help. Our broken and felled trees from the heavy snow fall are legion.
On to Sunday:
Sunday was spent clearing out a bunch of old papers and notes that were stacked everywhere in my office. In one of the stacks was a copy of an email someone sent with recommendations of things to read. Unfortunately, I copied and pasted the info into Word and can't remember who sent it.
One of the recommendations was Richard Mitchell (1929-2002), the Underground Grammarian. All of his books are online and free. I started reading Less than Words Can Say, and he had me smiling broadly before I even finished the forward.
The first thing he makes fun of is the use of the word "basically." Listen to any talk show or anyone being interviewed today and their language will be liberally sprinkled with the word "basically." When I hear it, I'm driven to basically what could be considered basic violence - sort of, basically.
Also recommended was The War Against Grammar by David Mulroy, which proves that the war on grammar is an intentional war, not an accidental one.
And here he expounds on boredom, zombies, and economic collapse. What I wouldn't give to have a long dinner date with him.
Did any of you ever dare to say to your mother you were bored? I sure didn't. Actually, I can't ever remember being bored.
Thirdly:
American Thinker has a raft of pretty good articles today with all of them garnering many comments. The comments are usually my favorite part of articles.
Fourthly:
My Dick Blick order of the last remaining art supplies I needed to begin painting again came Saturday. On Wednesday I will commence with my painting career again, because man doesn't live by politics alone.
Yes, I know this post is long, but tomorrow is haircut day, along with Costco, and some other errands, so I will be absent.
Doug Hagmann, at Canada Free Press, has a wildly different take on the Iraqi issue than Mike Konrad at American Thinker. Mr. Hagmann sees the middle east conflagration as the beginning of WWIII, and Mr. Konrad thinks we should just sit back and let the Muslims kill each other.
While I like the idea of the Muslims wiping each other off the map, common sense informs me it isn't going to happen. They've had thousands of years to reach that goal, if you date it back to Ishmael from the Book of Genesis, the son of Abraham by way of his handmaiden Hagar, and they're still around - sort of like cockroaches. And while they're killing each other, they're also torturing and killing anyone who gets in their way, with Christian deaths really lighting up their frontal lobes.
I've been reading Mr. Hagmann for more than a few years now and he always makes sense. I know something about his background, and his approach to these issues constitutes more of the "big picture", as opposed to an immediate short-term feel good approach.
I have no idea of Mr. Konrad's curriculum vitae other than what he says about himself. He publishes under a pen-name and runs a blog dedicated to what he calls the "amazing Arab subculture in South America."
I've always advocated for the "simple approach" to matters. However, when it comes to the middle east, there is nothing simple going on. We're dealing with hundreds of years of hostility and economics in the form of oil and currency wars. A one-sided approach could get us killed.
Read them both. Think it over. Let me know what you think.
