Guest Post by Rob in Nova Scotia
In the spring of 1992 I started work for a criminal enterprise. I wouldn’t realize this until much later. Years in fact. I’m not going to bother rehashing my story. Telling it again will, I think, cause people to divert from the point I am trying make. Rather than focusing on the substance of what I have to say it has been my experience that people will take pity on me. But I will post a link to it below for those who feel an interest in exploring it further. I would ask that you read this first before going to the link.
I am going to jump around a bit chronologically. The reason I will do this is because that I have realized after many years that this is how my brain works.
As I said before in April 1992 I started working for a criminal enterprise. Happy to have a job. I spent the first couple of weeks keeping my head down and trying to get my bearings. Learning my job. My Tasks. I was 26 years old and green as the grass. Previous to me getting hired another man, about the same age as me was taken on board this ship as well. Our lives wouldn’t intersect until May 6th. On that day two very young men would unwittingly play God with the lives of others.
For me it would end up being a phone call and a conversation I didn’t have at the end of day. I have over the years tried to reconcile my actions. Using ignorance and Not my department to justify what I did. I can’t speak for the other man because the last time I spoke to him was on the phone at 10 o’clock in the morning on sixth. He played God too though. He decided to ignore what I had to say. Some years later at an Inquiry he was called to testify. Under oath he lied.
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Portion of Transcript Day 76
This happened on July 11th 1996. Two days after my 31 first birthday. Later in his testimony he proceeded to throw under the bus in both a literal and very real way. From day forward the paths of our lives diverged once again.
Where to turn when one is thinking like this. A path of self destruction I suppose can be logically presumed after something like this happens. So it went. I should have stood up at time and defended myself. But I was God again. This time with myself. My marriage had dissolved and I was staring into an abyss. But I stared the Black Dogs down even though my life had pretty much gone off the rails. I was however a very angry man.
I would find out how angry two years later. Again playing God. This time it was a fight outside a bar. It didn’t even start out involving me. Much like some of the discussion here on TBP. It was friend and some guy I didn’t know arguing at 2 in the morning. We stood around for a while watching the two trade insults. At some point I got fed up with what was going on and started hurling insults at both of them. The man I didn’t know didn’t like what I had to say. And when I wasn’t paying attention he did a bum rush on me. Next thing I knew I was on the ground. Him on top. Things were not looking good but he made what could have been a fatal mistake. He opened his mouth to talk trash. To which I reached up with my hand. Grabbed him by the jaw. Hand in mouth with a death grip I yanked as hard as I could. Stunning him for a second. I managed to extract myself from the situation. Then proceeded to start bashing his head into pavement. I stopped. Shocked at what i was doing. Walked away before anything bad could happen.
The following year I would be God again. This time it was a car accident. Not my fault but I was driving a truck when a man decided unexpectedly to pull u-turn right in front of me. I hit him broadside. Running to his car I arrived just in time for him to look at me then slump over in seat. He died in hospital 5 weeks later.
I tell this story not because I want sympathy or understanding but because I have seen life’s whims up close and personal. I will end this chapter, if you will, saying that 1990’s ended with me lost.
Stop
The year 2000 looking back now was a pivotal year. In the spring of that year my Grand Mother passed away at 90. Always a shining light in my life she left this world loved by many. Including me. Her spirit still guides me today. In the fall of that year I decided to go back to school. Hard to fathom now but I entered school disconnected from the world of webs. Soon I was transfixed. It was the sheer volume of information available. Overwhelming in many ways.
To which I dove in. Never one to do half measures I found deepest parts of pool to wade. Not surprising though. When I was young my Mom and dad bought Encyclopedias. World Books in fact. I spent the next few years reading them. A to Z. Cover to cover.
I had already forgotten more than I knew but decided to embark on this new enterprise not realizing how far down the worm hole I would go. The problem wasn’t the sheer quantity of information but the amount of bad information shaded as fact. But I would not realize this for a while. This information didn’t result in an enlightenment it would in fact lead to a deconstruction of all I held close and dear.
The Trial
I watched the 9/11 attacks live on TV in my classroom. Shocked at what I saw it shook me to my core. This event sent me even further into the wormhole. But even then I had a voice telling me that I should use my third eye to peer at my life. Some two years later I met my future wife. Always a light she has shone guiding me back somewhat from where I was.
But still I searched checking out links to this and to that. So much to ponder. Now some have accused me of being not quite right. It is after many years of thought by me a charge to which I would have to say there is some truth. That being said I will state that I am no fool. In high school I scored in the 92nd percentile on tests that I purposely made mistakes on. But I am on a spectrum I suppose. My wife was married to me for 6 years or so before she even noticed. I’m saying this because I do see the world differently.
I don’t know what it year it was maybe 2008 or 2009 but I found the blog. The Burning Platform. Like a moth to a light I was drawn. First and foremost because I thought it was a place to connect with conspiracies and like minded people. But a funny thing happened after I sat and watched the ongoing debates and about this and that. It ended up a surprise. But rather than journeying further down I began regain my love of rhetoric. My brain reignited not by skepticism but love of facts and absolutes. I had regained my footing in this world.
So here I am.
Outside The Wall
I can’t punch cows and shit rainbows.
There are people with all the answers and people with all the questions. Then there are people with both. Those people are dangerous. They will be the prophets in this 4th turning but I am no Prophet. I have come to realization that it is easy to look away from me. To discount my voice. But I am fine with that. I started writing not for the masses but for that one person where ever they may be who can relate to my life experience. Maybe I can help that one person staring into the abyss to step back from the edge.
Take a deep breath, enjoy life again and
Tear down the wall.
Link to my article
http://www.naturalresourcesmagazine.net/?article=closure
Wasn’t lucky. Oh well.
100, I won!
G’nite EC… am weary of driving cross country and back. Long story for another day.
You did win, indeed. Nithgt.
Aw, shit. Y’all Full Retards win everythang. It just ain’t no fair.
Soup is good after a long drive, stomach won’t handle much else. I drove 860 miles one day and didn’t stop to eat, I was ravenous when I got home, bought a bucket of KFC. It gave me a terrible stomach ache.
Rob, I finally got back to read past the first line. Sounds like we’re the same age. You might not be “quite right” but who the hell is? I’m certainly not. Sometimes I’m deliberatly out there. Sometimes it’s just me being me. When it comes to hoomans, all I know for sure is that the older I get, the less I understand or even want to understand about them. I’m pretty sure most of them are far more fucked up than I am. The difference is that you and I KNOW we’re not quite right. The majority never see their own flaws.
I used to be angry as well from about 18-40. Never understood why either. Luckily nothing bad resulted as a result of my anger. In 2006 it just left my body one day. No idea why. Maybe it found someone else to fuck with or maybe it’s sleeping…….gathering strength.
You’ve had more trials and tribulations than I have to be sure. I’ve led an almost embarrassingly charmed life so far which probably means that my trials and tribulations are still coming. I figure that as long as you can learn something from your missteps and chart a better path toward the future, that’s about all you can do.
Get a dog too! Working or playing with my dogs renders the rest of the planet invisible. Dogs are cathartic. They don’t give a shit about any of your issues and only live to be happy and have fun. You can teach a dog to do some pretty cool shit like sniff out truffles in the forest or to do volunteer search and rescue or just to do tricks. Either way you both win.
Life *is* a trip……that’s for damn sure! Make sure you intentionally grab some happiness along the way because this might be the only one we get.
Rob, what troubles you is part of you. Don’t let it own you. Mistakes, even horrible ones, are just education. Hindsight is 20/20. Foresight is a skill that takes lots of practice. Repeat after me. “The world may kick my ass, but i won’t kick my own ass.” Hardscrabble, whatever unhappiness is bubbling up right now, same thing, control it. Nothing to be gained by letting it run amuck. You may have to make changes. Just the way it goes. Figure it out, and do what you need to do. You got too much to lose. Maggie, there is a time to be stoic. Well played. Llpoh, lots to learn from you. Others would be wise to pay attention, and think instead of reacting. I know where you’re coming from. Starfcker. Out.
Francis –
1) I do not know much about Unfriendly. You will need to draw your own conclusions
2) me left leaning? Guess you have trouble comprehending much at all. The drool must keep your clothes soaked.
3) I am not character assassinating HSF. He managed to do that all by his lonesome. I am just pointing out his likely character based on previous actions.
4) hmm, you are a minority because you are ill or some such. That is a laugh.
I do not use my racial background as a crutch. Never have. Not worth my time.
Re my dislike of white supremacists, let us start with the definition of such:
A White Supremacist is “a person who believes that the white race is better than all other races and should have control over all other races”.
Now, I have no problem with part A of that. They can believe whatever they want. It is the part B that gets my goat. A white supremacist wants to have control over me because of my race. Ding ding ding. That is fucked up.
Now, from the NYT, and I quote “The newest councilman in Hopewell Borough revealed this week that he was a member of a national white supremacist group but said he was not a racist.”
Well, there you have it. HSF was a member of a group that wants to control me because of my race.
And that, sir, I find extraordinarily objectionable.
Has he changed? Was he unintentionally or ignorantly involved? I do not know for sure. But I now believe not.
I ignored this for a long time. But I now have listened to my inner misgivings.
I repeat – he was a member of a group that wants to control me because of my race. And I am not forgetting that.
Thanks star.
The bit that sent me off was a former member of a white supremist group objecting to someone coming around his family. On so many levels it told me the guy has not changed. His comment re beating third graders was fresh in my mind.
I will no longer be quiet and ignore this guy.
FM, LLPOH is a big dog, hardly in need of advice on internet manners. He has been quite nice for some time. If he waited this long to call out HSF, all I can say is wow!
His reply to you is a marvel of restraint. You questioned his gender and told him to mind his own business and he gave you a very political reply without ripping your shrivelled nutsack from its rotted moorings? Awesome!
Go buy yourself a lottery ticket because you are having a lucky streak, my friend.
The story Llpoh dug up is old news. HSF gave me the background on this issue before he started posting articles on TBP because he was worried it might hurt the website. He has also written articles regarding this part of his life. This is no revelation. It is particularly worrisome that people who are like minded on most issues, so easily turn on someone and try to savage their reputation in an instant. There is no one on TBP that agrees with everything posted on TBP or the views held by everyone else. If this is how we treat our fellow TBP contributors, imagine what will happen when the shit really hits the fan.
I consider Llpoh, HSF, and Rob to be valuable contributors to TBP. I think it is time to call off the attack dogs and lighten up.
I remember reading a hint of an allegation about HSF quite sometime back. Never gave it another thought as there were no details and nothing further came from it. I only skimmed HSF’s Question Authority post along with some of the comments. Never did get the gist of brouhaha involving Rob in NS. I just don’t have the time or mindset to go back and read it. Now that the worm is turning here on Rob’s post, I thunk I’m as up to speed as I need to be or want to be regarding the best wordsmith I’ve seen on TBP. I am willing to listen to any response he may provide.
In another time, not so long ago, a man could genuinely change his beliefs and eventually get out from under a thing like that. Today? Not so much. It’s a lesson that is going to come back to haunt a great many youngsters that grew up in the age of the internet. Such lessons are handed out with increasing frequency these days.
I do believe that a man can come to a genuine change in beliefs as his experiences broaden. I know that mine have changed but I also know that the only who can ever know that with 100% certainty is the one whose beliefs have changed. Convincing others is far from certain.
Personally I can never judge an entire race of people based solely on the color of their skin for one reason. Not a single person in the history of the Earth has ever had the slightest fucking intentional input on the color of their skin at birth. Experience tells me the only rational method I can use to judge anyone is my own personal interaction with them. I can’t have that in this case. Da innerwebz is a poor proxy for face to face interaction.
When Billy (not trying to call you out) came here declaring every person on Earth with black skin to be niggers I took exception to that. Perhaps we should have defined terms like *nigger* first? It would have saved time. I’ll let Billy state his own beliefs here if he wants. Suffice to say that over a year or more of shitfest style commenting, I came to an understanding of what he truly believes on the matter. He’s the same distance right of center as I am left of center on the issue of race. I know I was honest with him and I believe he was honest with me. Again, da innerwebz is a poor proxy for face to face interaction.
I’m not particularly fond of the word *nigger* and rarely use it in a defamatory way. I think it will forever limit the opportunity for any kind of sincere discussion on the issue which is my primary aversion to the word. In and of itself, it’s just another word would multiple meanings which I read in a grade school dictionary after being scolded for using the word for the first time in my life which is why I looked it up in the first place. I wasn’t told or encouraged by anyone to look it up. I just didn’t understand why some words were “bad”. The word *fuck* and *cunt* were in there too because I checked. The latter came in handy a year or two later when I read a cartoon in the first Playboy I ever encountered. Read that sucker cover to cover after my meat got too sore to beat but I digress.
If HSF tells me (us really) that his beliefs have sincerely changed 90 to 180 degrees from what is implied by the very limited amount of material I read then all I can do is accept that for what it’s worth. (I only read three different newz articles, one that included two paragraphs excerpted from an essay titled “Freedom” attributed to HSF.) Again, that pesky, perpetual innerwebz limitation rears it’s head complicating such an assessment. I’d like to think a sincere man could get a fair second chance but everything on the internet is as fresh as the last date it was viewed.
This event is a bit different than the usual TBP fare it’s going to be interesting to see how it shakes out. I can easily see it going several ways……….not many of them good and none easy. Could be a ripple or a tidal wave. I’m still a bit shaky on the Rob in NS connection and the “beating third graders” angle but I suspect those will not be germane to the discussion at hand.
Admin – I appreciate your comments.
Fact is though I cannot come to trust HSF. I have more reason than some given my background. You believe he either has changed or never was as described. Hope you are right. As I have said I could care less what people believe, unless that belief is a stated position to control folks such as me. HSF aligned himself with such a group, intentionally or otherwise in the past. That troubles me greatly. And always has.
I will try to let it be.
Admin, can you tell me if my newest fan is from Kentucky? I am drawing in the disturbed crowd like flies on shit.
Wow, that was reprehensible.
How do you even begin to respond to a character assassination made by an anonymous coward regarding a matter that has no bearing on anything that has EVER been posted by me on this blog?
I think the entire thread/threads say volumes about the character of everyone involved.
I was going to C&P the email string between NS Rob where he asked my advice about the farm he was considering purchasing, about his business opportunities, etc. That was the one where I offered both he and his wife a visit, meals and lodging at our expense so he could see how “going Galt” actually works. Rob, I suggest you go back and re-read it, unless you have no decency in you you’ll probably feel ashamed of yourself for what you’ve done here and all of it because you took offense to me questioning aspects of science? Mind boggling.
I own my words and my actions and I make no apologies for having lived my life on my own terms. If someone thinks I am going to address 15 year old politicized smears written by people who don’t know me in order to push a tired old narrative that everyone on this blog is all too aware of in this day and age, they will have to find some other person. Every year or so I have to deal with this steaming pile of BS because some self righteous asshole thinks he’s some kind of Internet sleuth. Understanding what that kind of charge can mean for someone accused of it makes the dredging up all that more nasty. You have any idea how many positive reviews, awards, commendations, salutes and other positive things someone has to wade through until they found this? It’s pathetic, really, but it’s a great reminder of why I chose to live my life the way I have. Since you can’t change the past, you can alter the future and that I have done and I am very proud of it.
I tell the truth.
I’m loyal to my family and my friends.
I’m helpful to strangers.
I write about it.
That’s it. I get mocked for the “rainbow farm” literary style and that doesn’t bother me in the least because that’s the way I write. What I don’t do and what I haven’t done is start anything with anyone. I don’t hurl insults and profanity, don’t ridicule people and I certainly don’t go out of my way to try and cause people trouble. That’s intentional and it was meant to inflict harm, not “inform” people and I’m surprised you actually thought that fig leaf was cover.
Over the last month I have a lot of contacts with people from this blog- emails, phone calls, visits to the farm. Every last one of them was positive. I hope that every one of those people felt the same way and are able to make their own mind up about the kind of person I am.
Admin started to post my stuff here on his own, I never approached him or asked to be one of the writers on this blog. I was grateful for the opportunity and I took great care and deliberation in each and every thing I wrote. I went to visit him and inform him of my past- and to give him the opportunity to continue posting or show me the door. I never wrote anything inflammatory, never got down in the gutter in any comments and my greatest crime- clearly- has been the past several months of thinking out loud about various science orthodoxies. The anger and vituperation has been mind-blowing.
Clearly I had to respond to this (again) although there are few things in life I desire less. It would be like taking the single thing you like least about yourself and having to celebrate it annually with a room full of strangers, but that’s my cross to bear and bear it I must.
Everything else aside, this was a shameful display.
That’s all I’ve got, back to the jackals.
I think every regular contributor/commenter on TBP has similar values and beliefs. But, we are not totally aligned on all subject matters. It’s an open forum where disagreement and debate are encouraged. It goes off the rails when we interject personal aspects of others’ lives into our disagreement on subject matters. I’ve been accused of racism for my 30 Blocks articles. Llpoh has been accused of racism for his views on IQ. Billy has been accused, along with others. Are we really going to turn on one of our biggest contributors because of some unfounded accusations from 13 years ago?
The nastiest and useless shitfests all revolved around the personal lives of the combatants. Reverse Engineer got banned for bringing my family into his comments. Stuck, Llpoh, Smokey and myself all unfairly used personal stuff in some of our nasty dust-ups over the years.
I think we need to layoff people’s personal lives and agree to disagree on various contentious issues which may be hot button issues for various people.
HSF, as a guy who have personally met you and visited your wonderful farm, I can vouch for your honesty and integrity. Sorry you had to go through this.
Please don’t stop posting here.
That would truly be a shame.
Does the Man with no Name check IP addresses for you or can you do it? Inquiring minds want to know.
Maggie- If that crack about your new fan being from KY was aimed at me, let me assure you I have never had an unkind word to say about you. This was a Llpoh/Stucky tag team with EC icing the cake and I would return it in kind if it were me and I were you.
Rob has some things he needs to deal with and I hope he can find peace. Attacking HF was shameful.
The bullying is all fun and games until someone is better at it than you are, and you know who you are. FOAD.
Maggie
Unfriendly isn’t from Kentucky. He’s been posting for months with the Un- as his monicker. Just ignore the comments of people that don’t matter. I can’t play policeman here all day long.
“This was a Llpoh/Stucky tag team with EC icing the cake and I would return it in kind if it were me and I were you.” ———– Bea Lever
How about you go fuck yourself, you inbred cocksucker. Yet another goddamned LIE you attribute about me.
I have NEVER had an unkind word to say to Maggie.
Goddamn, you’re the lowest of lowlife shits here, and that’s saying something. How about you go ahead and stick your head in a wood chipper.
Stuck
How’s your Dad?
Maggie- Someone is all bunged up this morning so I will say that it was Llpoh/Someone who uses Stucky’s writing style. Doubt it was just Llpoh being a assclown by himself.
Either way, nobody really cares now do they?
@Bea, Lawdy NO. I asked Admin if he could check IP Address locations because a phrase was used by Un”decided” on moniker used a phrase that caused me to suspect it was an old “chum” from Kentucky who knows I am a TBP junkie. About a year ago, her young adult daughter called me a dickhead on my own little blog page because I linked the article about the young man shot by the copf*k for flashing his bright lights to tell the cop his brights were on.
I had made the comment that I always flash my brights on and off quickly when I realize an oncoming car out in the country has brights glaring. I know on a dark road, the brights of a single car can almost blind me. I cited the court decisions that were posted on TBP where the court clearly supports one’s rights to signal oncoming drivers of a speed trap, so surely my right to give a quick flash to help me be safe driving at night must be protected.
Her daughter called me a dickhead and said I was F*cking stupid for doing that. She said everybody under 80 damn years old should know that flashing lights is a gang sign [this from a young woman in Moonshine Country, Kentucky] and that I was just asking for someone to shoot me or stop me and “beat my ass.” I told her that while I respected everyone’s opinion, disagreed and would rather she remove her profane language from my page, since I am friends with a lot of people whose children read my blog and follow the Henhouse Adventures and Raisin’ Wabbits videos I post. I suggested she link the article to her page and then she and her trendy friends could chat about what other civil liberties they were ready to toss out the window so they wouldn’t get shot.
She immediately replied that “this here world wide web” allowed her to write whatever she wanted and I couldn’t stop her. I told her that while that was true, as manager of my own page, I could delete her opinions if I didn’t want them there. Saying “Watch this” to her, I went to her offensive comments and deleted them all. One by one.
I got an Instant Message from her MOTHER, the Sherbitch, who said “I’m begging you to stop this now. You are making [name not given because it is her daughter] very angry.”
Well, thinks I… why doesn’t her daughter just leave my domain. And suggested that to Chummy Mummy, who replied that [name not given because it is her daughter] could care less about me and in fact had already unfriended me. (The PAIN was almost unbearable, I’m telling you.) But on the second monitor, I was watching her daughter post yet another filthy comment, so I had my son ban her IP address.
So, later that night, after everyone in the world should have been tucked in for the evening, [name not given because it is her daughter] drove 5 minutes to her mother’s home, logged into my page as her mother and left another hateful, profane comment on my page which I saw when I opened the page the next day.
I blocked them both and other associations that I have no other reason to communicate with except via or about them and continued to live. A number of supporters (okay, I have about a dozen readers and two fans so that would be three people) sent me supportive messages, saying they were stunned by a woman supporting that sort of behavior from a daughter. I said it is just a sign of the times and moved on.
However, I get nasty messages from time to time that are “anonymous” from various IP addresses tied to Kentucky. Perhaps library computers or just coincidence, but having come close to being shot by someone who decided I didn’t deserve to live because I was acting in a way that made them look bad, I try to keep track of where my enemies are located.
So, NO, Bea… not you.
However, having publicly proven them both wrong and
Admin… didn’t really expect you to. I just wondered if you could check them.
But thanks.
Something happened to dad’s index finger …. no one has any idea what !!! …… but it grew to more than twice its normal size ….. and the doc said something about toxins or poisons in his body …. and at even one point mentioned some shit about some flesh-eating disease …… oh just fucken great!! …. but he’s out of IC and seems to have stabilized …. although they don’t yet know if they need to amputate his finger. That’s where we’re at. Thank you for asking.
I forgot to finish the last line: Proving them both wrong publicly and freeing my self from another set of Clingons seemed to really create a need for revenge in them.
I’m leaving this worm infested comment thread.
I/S- Most of my ire is directed at free shitters who feel they are entitled. I know some very decent black people but they never had the backbone to call out their fellow blacks who are hell bent on wreaking havoc. Whites on the other hand can’t wait to jump a fellow white for trying to save what is left of this shithole formerly know as UNITED States of America.
Admin writes:
“I think we need to layoff people’s personal lives and agree to disagree on various contentious issues which may be hot button issues for various people.”
You’re right.
Retard writes:
“_Insert Name De Jour Here_ is a big dog… His reply to you is a marvel of restraint.”
This is an adolescent statement. Moreover, it smacks of ass kissing. Either you have something relevant to say and can back it up or you can’t. Any of us can write like we’ve come unglued here. It’s easy – we just use the language we learned in middle school and presto. We can all pick each other apart piece by piece like hyenas on a zebra carcass by using the variety of tools in our asshole box that we bring to play with each day. The only difference between all of us when it comes to shit flinging is how much time and energy each of us is willing to dedicate to it. It’s the internet for Christ’s sake – everyone’s a tough guy if they want to be.
Who needs “Big Dogs” when there are such talented assclowns…….wait, could they be one in the same?
Unchanged- Who are you to hide behind your new name and threaten me? Go ahead and say what you REALLY think of me ya limp dick idiot. I’ll scorch your ass into eternity and back and laugh all the way so GFY.
Some decisions and actions leave stains that can’t be erased. Being incensed that is so does not change the reality of it. That is why one’s reputation must be closely guarded, for once lost it may never be regained.
It takes a great many a taboos to overcome one “oh shit”. Sometimes it is not possible.
“Attaboys”
That’s right Llpoh and to launch this personal attack on HF or anyone else is so shameful as to cause that attacker to never gain respect from the TBP community again so they would be smart to let it go and STFU. Don’t you agree ?
FM, he was nice to you.
LLPOH has changed.
Many folks here have changed.
When there is no change, time has been wasted.
I thought the pig story was HF eliminating something from his life.
You should read it again. It dovetails nicely with his haunted house story.
We are all haunted by something and sometimes comments here bring it all back.
I may fuck with Billy but I like his stories also
For you to call me juvenile because I use simple language is hurtful. You might as well call me an assclown. If my thoughts don’t resonate in your mind, it is not my fault alone but some of it may be a deficiency of imagination on your part.
Bea Lever says: Unchanged- Who are you to hide behind your new name and threaten me?
Bea, Unzipped is crazy. He’s JFish. He can make silly comments all day but sometimes he actually makes real sense. He fucks with me too, I take it as ‘funnin’.
Unfortunately, Maggie is convinced he’s somebody else who has been tormenting her elsewhere. Poor Maggie. Internet bullying is real. When you let shit get under your skin, the shit starts to hurt.
I told Unglued that it’s not nice to fuck with people’s personal life. You can bullshit all day about them being gay (unless it’s true) or have a small dick but getting personal is a no-no. It just means you have run out of ammo, you came to a gunfight with a knife.
El Retard- I know who Unchanged is but good try to cover.
Meaning what?
EC… It isn’t under my skin. I didn’t realize JellyCarp was lurking around posting with the as the Un-cola. I will skip all Un (worthy) comments from now on.
You have fun with the funnin.
@Stucky: Regarding your Dad, I was bitten by a scorpion once and my index finger swelled up tremendously. Make sure they check for that before doing anything drastic. My cure was to stick my hand in an ice bucket for as long as I could stand the cold. After a couple of days the swelling went down.
Stucky – it’s really cool how you take care of your parents. Regarding the rest of you, I have a temper. I mainly just get pissed off at the world and sometimes I am overcome by melancholy. I look into my kids hopeful eyes, and at times, I am overwhelmed with sadness. Then I get pissed. At world events, at my own physical fraility the older I get, and you buttheads on TBP. It ain’t personal. My deal. I am working on it and consider this place as a “process”. That’s all…
Unflushed, Bea thinks I’m covering for you.
Good luck Stuck. A friend of mine had that symptom – swelled finger. It was a staph infection, and it was very serious.
FR – that makes me laugh. You’re my worst enemy. And my best friend. That’s why it’s so funny.
I lost the love of my life, “Rose”, with MLK. Maggie on Hunger Games. I did stick up for Bea when he flounced on Sandy Hook. But I thought he was a chick at the time. 🙂
Oh well. Fully Retarded is still here. Good enough for me.
Bea – seriously, the last thing I need is approval from a dickhead like you. BTW – I said nary a word to or about Maggie. I think Stuck’s comment about you sums it up nicely.
Bea Lever says:
“I know some very decent black people but they never had the backbone to call out their fellow blacks who are hell bent on wreaking havoc. Whites on the other hand can’t wait to jump a fellow white for trying to save what is left of this shithole formerly know as UNITED States of America.”
I hear ya. Until the recent adoption of my Carlin-esque attitude I used to ponder those kinds of things. The truth is that knowing the reasons behind those conundrums will do me any good. Hoomans are just fucked up and knowing why won’t change it one bit.
I don’t believe for a minute that the former USA can be saved. ‘Muricans no longer value ‘Murican ideals. As our empire crumbles, the tyrants who have been focused subjugating foreigners in foreign lands will increasingly turn towards abusing it’s own citizens right here at home as their money runs out.
Admin saves the day! I fully expected to wake up to a thinner herd of shit throwing monkeys and a scorched and burning landscape. Great job admin! I saw this as a one possible but unlikely outcome. My fear was that if it went full nuclear you might pull the plug and us monkeys would be tree-less.
I take three days off from TBP to get shit done on the home front and ya’ll produce this beauty?
We need an international “shit-signal” so I know when to load the catapults and pull up the drawbridge!
PS: The only problem I have with HSF is how he’s in two places at once. The only farmers I’ve ever met who could post with his frequency (and during the daylight no less!) are row croppers with massive acreage to till/spray/plant/harvest.
Everyone else has too much stuff to do. Once the weather warms up farm life leaves little time for “ass in seat,” which is traditionally where lengthy memoirs get banged out.
I figure he must have plenty of help or a store to mind or something, but it always boggles my mind.
TPC, the farmer I get my milk form has a small dairy herd, laying hens, and free range meat chickens. As you pointed out, daylight hours are totally consumed by work, even on a small place. The farmer I mentioned sends out emails to his herd share subscribers around 11PM. If I email him he may or may not be able to answer that night.
Also, he has two adult sons, and a son-in-law and his wife and daughter helping all day, every day. I get one line responses to emails from him or his wife or daughter. To get a 5,000 word “news from lake woebegone” missive, even once a year from the dairy guy is unimaginable.
Good point you made there.
Llpoh:
Have not noticed yet how racist a large number of Aussies are? This is a common observation among Kiwis.
Cheers!
Missed the whole goddamn thing and couldn’t be happier that I did. Makes me more sad than anything. Admin is right…what the fuck can we expect when shit really hits the fan. I can find more constructive and critical thinking, as well as more basic decency on Yahoo.
Personally, I need not judge HSF’s (nor anyone else’s) character, because I do not know him personally. I simply judge the stuff he writes, which I find oft inspiring, universally well-crafted, containing some terrific ideas and a few that are simply bewildering. For most people posting shit on the internet, I find only this last.
According to Stucky, we should hate our enemies…I ask, why? When indifference is a far more powerful, as well as a far easier and less destructive weapon to wield. Also, it is the sentiment much more closely attuned to libertarian beliefs, which so many of you claim vehemently to possess and so clearly do not.