Once again, we’re at that time of year when everyone examines the year that was with their clever lists, and wry observations. being neither clever or wry, I’ll simply point out where we weren’t a year ago, before the Dawn of the Age of the HopeyChangeyness (now with Skittles-crapping unicorns.)
A year ago, the government wasn’t the owner of two previously privately held auto companies, the largest insurer in the nation, or a large mortgage bank.
A year ago, our President wasn’t buddy-buddy with Chavez or Castro.
A year ago, we didn’t have a tax-cheat as Treasury Secretary.
A year ago, we didn’t have an Executive Order authorizing the immigration and placement of thousands of Palestinians in the U.S.
A year ago, U.S. taxpayers weren’t funding and facilitating abortions in other countries.
A year ago, five percent fewer federal employees made over $100,000.00 a year. It must be nice to get a raise in the worst recession in my memory…especially when you already have the job security of a federal employee.
A year ago, we had a President who wasn’t on record as thinking that the Constitution is “fundamentally flawed”.
A year ago, we had a President who did not bow deeply to the Saudi King and the Japanese Emperor.
A year ago, we had a President who did not avoid the Senate’s advise and consent role by appointing czars in places where they had never been before.
A year ago, we had a President who did not go out of his way to insult average Americans by casting aspersions on their values and the values of their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents.
A year ago, we did not have a Supreme Court Justice who completely and utterly disqualified themselves before appointment with repeated statements calling their integrity and impartiality into question.
A year ago, we did not have government officials threatening private investors who were trying to protect their legal rights in bankruptcy.
A year ago, we did not have a presidentially appointed self-admitted Communist in government.
A year ago, a government official would not have dreamt of quoting Mao in public as a favorite philosopher.
A year ago, our elected representatives would not have dared to ask constituents for ID before answering their questions, or used union goons and police to silence and remove constituents from public meetings.
A year ago, the conventional wisdom would have laughed at the notion that we need hundreds of billions of dollars in stimulus spending that stimulates nothing in order to turn the rising tide of unemployment.
A year ago, the government did not deign to set compensation levels for employees of privately held companies.
A year ago, the idea of government health care for all was the punchline of a Hillary Clinton joke.
A year ago, we didn’t have a President who has informed a whole sector of the energy industry that he wants to put them out of business.
A year ago, the EPA was not threatening to regulate carbon dioxide emissions if Congress doesn’t.
A year ago, INTERPOL could not operate on American soil without regard to the American Constitution and American due process.
A year ago, we didn’t have an attorney general who believed it was appropriate or necessary to try foreign terrorists in Article III courts.
A year ago, we had a President and administration that recognized that we were already in a war on terrorism, because the terrorists had already declared war on us.
A year ago, a statement to the nation about a terrorist act committed against Americans by the President was a duty, and not an annoyance.
A year ago, carbon dioxide was good because it helps plants grow, and not a pollutant requiring taxes by Congress that will be paid by energy consumers.
A year ago, in was understood that the government cannot force me to buy a government-approved health care plan with the threat of exorbitant fines and/or jail time.
A year ago, it wasn’t the priority of one political party to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to a group of community activists that have engaged in voter fraud and other criminal enterprises…time and again.
A year ago, the government didn’t fire watchdogs who caught influential friends of the government with their sticky fingers in the government till.
A year ago, we had a President and Leader of the Free World who didn’t sit on his hands and “bear witness” to the brutal repression and murder of people resisting a totalitarian regime that is determined to destabilize the region it is in.
A year ago, we had a President who did not support a leader attempting a coup by vilifying the people who lawfully prevented it.
A year ago, we did not face a government that grows fat and belligerent on our tax dollar, while constantly threatening to take more of our money and freedom from us.
A year ago, we didn’t have a President that accused our soldiers of perpetrating war crimes for political gain, or declared police guilty of acting stupidly while admitting in the same breath that he didn’t have all the facts.
A year ago, dissent was the highest form of patriotism; now it’s racist!
Crossposted at The Hostages.
BiW, I think this covers thoroughly the actions of a President and his administration that most offend those of us who love and honor the Constitution, and American Exceptionalism.
It’s hard to take but important to review, internalize, get angry about, and then be willing to take action on.
At this point, our votes are like gold. Never worthless, but their value is increasing as our Country is being devalued.
you hit the nail on the head!
One year ago, I didn’t have one hundred feet of good rope handy.
Today I have it and keep it in the truck, cause ya never know when it’ll come in handy, but I’m fairly certain it will, soon.
Superb listing BiW, superb. I’m borrowing with full credit.
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Agreed! We have a President who thinks he’s emperor. He tries to rule by dictatorial proclamation.
I may have minor quibbles such as your allusion to Iran(yes he is pathetic but GWB wasn’t a tower of strength on them late in his presidency either) but all in all a very apt description of this malevolent presence running our country(in to the ground).
Again we have to call a spade a spade (omg he’s a racist!)
this guy is milignantly stupid, infinitly arrogant and hopelessly corrupt. Obama has commited any number of high crime and misdemeanors since his decension from Mt Oliberal. That and in the case of Afghanistan has been criminally negligent in his duties as C-in-C.
It’s a shame that impeachment has turned into an essentially a political remedy and not a legal one. This remedy was instituted for men of good faith who would know constitutional malfeasance when they saw it. How many people of good faith do you see in the NDSWP today. Can you say zero? I new you could.
Reprint this at BDP if ya would.
New one for you. Use this. You are lawyer, yes? Damn, can’t put on an accent when I type.
At any rate, you may find this useful in some activity. 😀
http://coordillum.blogspot.com/2009/12/who-will-accept-new-interpol-super.html
excellent BIW! i could only add one more…
a year ago we had a President and government who would not ostracise, castigate, alienate, ignore and betray our number one and only true democratic ally in the MidEast, Israel, while at the same time aiding and abetting all of that ally’s enemies.
may i link to this post on some of my intel blogs?
keep up the good work and Happy New Year 2010!
Uh, BiW, I’ve seen this at different blog sites on Google search. Is this a re-post of someone else’s work or your own original piece? And no, I’m not jealous. Just a firm believer in attributing authorship where it belongs.
This would be my piece.
I wrote it Wednesday night, and posted it similtaneously here and at The Hostages. Because I have never changed over the original wordpress time settings on this blog, it switches over to the next day at 4:00PM pacific coast time, which is why it has a January 31, 2009 date here.
I just did my own Google search on the title.
1. Big Dick’s Place. You my notice in the comments above yours, he asked me to republish it there, which I did about 2 hours ago.
2. EvolutionRight. SoCalOilMan and I are both Rotties from way back, and he knows he has permission to repost anything of mine he likes, as long as he attributes it to me, which he did.
3. A report on the Pope, which contains the keyword “Betrayal”, but does not contain my post.
4. The post at The Hostages. The date stamp says the 30th, but PJM changed the clock for that blog sometime ago.
5. OpEdNews piece, which does not have the same title, but has the keyword “betrayal” in it.
6. Amazon.com. An e-book titled ‘Face of Betrayal’.
7. A NYT article called “Betraying the Planet”.
8. A link to a story about The Bachelor with the word “betrayal” in the title.
9. A link to an article on the novel “The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove.
10. A link to “boardgame geek” on Betrayal at House on the Hill
That’s the first search page:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4ADFA_enUS351US351&q=2009:+The+Year+In+Review:+Betrayal+Edition&start=0&sa=N
The only related hit on the second search page is the EvolutionRight post again:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4ADFA_enUS351US351&q=2009:+The+Year+In+Review:+Betrayal+Edition&start=10&sa=N
There is no related hit on the third search page:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4ADFA_enUS351US351&q=2009:+The+Year+In+Review:+Betrayal+Edition&start=20&sa=N
On the fourth search page, there’s a link to where NiceDeb posted a link at her place at her page. Again, she always has permission to link to anything I put up that she likes:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4ADFA_enUS351US351&q=2009:+The+Year+In+Review:+Betrayal+Edition&start=30&sa=N
When I put the title in quotes, there are only two pages that come up.
Page one includes the Big Dick’s Place repost, The Hostages simultaneous post, the EvolutionRight repost, the NiceDeb link, a link to Curmudgeonisms which shows up because he is on blogsnot and has the widget which shows the latest posts for the blogs in his sidebar. Mine is one of many there. Then there is a link to the publication at my site, followed by a Technorati article that rates it, as well as many others.
Page One:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4ADFA_enUS351US351&q=%222009%3A+The+Year+In+Review%3A+Betrayal+Edition%22&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
Page Two only has the link to Curmudgeonisms again:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4ADFA_enUS351US351&q=%222009:+The+Year+In+Review:+Betrayal+Edition%22&start=10&sa=N
I’m sorry for the long response, but I too am “a firm believer in attributing authorship where it belongs”, and I feel that the statement, though wearing the suit of neutrality, was passing judgment and finding me guilty.
I love watching people whose lives are so shitty, pathetic, and pointless that their only hope of a small victory is to desperately try and find even the most minuscule fault with others’ work.
It’s kinda like that trainwreck at Walmart @ 2:00am when the guy comes in forgetting he’s wearing high heels and holding a vibrator out of habit, only… much, much worse.
Thank God the internet is forever. To preserve these nuggets of gold.
Pssst! We’re not laughing with you.
a year ago we had a president with a birth certificate. 😉
Oh I think the current President has one too, hilljohnny.
The difference, is that unlike previous Presidents, this one finds it necessary to not allow a meaningful examination of it for some reason.
Go to hell, Dick. Good job, BiW.
B is W,
You are quite magnanimous in even paying lip service that the poster(Folly) was questioning you in good faith.
Folly is probably the type of brain dead lemming who looked at the demonstrations against the federal theft of the healthcare industry with it’s hand made signs and heterogenous make-up and the pro-theft thugs and their professionally produced signs and uniform of the day unoin t-shirts and concluded that demonstrators against the government abolishment of the private healthcare industry were the “astroturfers”
I don’t have to remind you; to the left corformity is originality and dissent is patriotic(when they don’t hold power). they try to redefine the language whenever they lose the argument in there own terms.
The left hasn”t had an origianl idea in it’s history. Marxism is just warmed over feudalism. Only the names have been changed from counts and dukes to the congress of deputies and the dictatorship of the proletariat.
fxpcpa-
I’ve known Folly almost as long as I have known Dick.
I can assure you that she is not brain-dead, or leftist.
Nice job, BiW.
Dick and the asshole above, fuck you both since neither of you know me. Dick, you got something say, say it. Nice rope comment. We both know you don’t have enough balls to actually do anything with it.
Yeesh. What a bunch of retards that hang out here. I’ll go back to my hole now.
Thank God the internet is forever.
Yes, to preserve crapass comments about 100 feet of rope that are designed to make people sound like they are more important, intimidating and capable of far worse than engaging in internet stupidity like the rest of us.
What the fuck ever, “Dick”.
Blow me to Mars.
Oh yeah, BiW, if you wrote this, kudos. I thought it was an e-mail circulating. My bad and big fucking deal in the grand scheme of things.
I certainly hope that “Dick” doesn’t hunt me down and kill me over this. That would be tragic…for both of us.
Happy New Year.
I guess you two missed my last sentence, so let me spell it out for you.
We’re not laughing with you. We’re all laughing at you.
You’re pathetic, weak minded, meaningless, and bitter because you’ve failed at the basic functions of life.
I see a double suicide in your futures.
Have a nice day.
Dear Dick, I am not the suicide type. You, however, are so full of shit that you should be a septic tank.
Have an absolutely lovely day.
Laughing right back at you, “Dick”. Like Folly said, you’re full of shit. Lose the bullying facade and people besides your sycophantic blogtards might find that you have some redeeming qualities.
If you have a problem with me, bring it to me, not BiW’s site. But you and I both know you’re a fucking pussy.
In the meantime, kiss my ass, motherfucker.
Asshole??? Yeah, pretty much. I think I touched a nerve with that last comment.
At least I didn’t obliquely impugn the integrity of the host. He was more than gracious in explaining why you saw it so many times on interwebs and as you have so perceptively ascertained I don’t quite ascribe to being that patient with persons who would question my integrity or veracity. I was complimenting him on his forbearance something which I lack as a human being.
Now whether or not I know you I think I have you pretty much pegged. The fact that you decided to call me a name instead of explaining yourself so I may understand you is all I need to know at this point. And before you call me a hypocrite, I will apologize for calling you a name. That was rather intemperate at the time.
I know Mr B is W doesn’t need my help in defending him as he has demonstrated time and again that he can more than defend himself and I apologize to him for wasting his band width on such a childish endeavor.
Folly- lack of good sense or normal prudence and foresight; a foolish act or idea. How appropriate.
And before you call me a hypocrite, I will apologize for calling you a name. That was rather intemperate at the time.
And that makes you all better than anyone else on the internet, doesn’t it?
Face it, we all engage in behavior we otherwise wouldn’t when we call ourselves fxpcpa, “Dick”, Folly, Grigory or BiW. We’re bored, we wanted a diversuion and we fgopund. So fuck all y’all who think you’re somehow better than anyone else.
Douchenozzles. Oh, sorry, that was rather intemperate of me.
see? All better now.
And now you can all jump on my typos. And my dick. Have a great day!
grigoryrasputin,
Yeah it actually does make me better than a two bit asswhistle like yourself. I don’t engage in any behavior I am not willing to back up in person. I am as arrogant and pretentious in person as I am in print.Bad manners are bad manners and I like to think of myself as a gentleman until I need to be otherwise.
Projection is a terrible thing. I was wrong for calling “Folly” a brain dead lemming before I had more evidence to corroborate that assement. In his comments since I see my original assessment was correct especially the brain dead part. You my friend will get no such benefit of the doubt. You have in every comment I have seen on this thread been an utter douchebag.
As opposed to you who has to hide behind the handle of a drunken, corrupt, lecherous con man my handle is exactly who I am. My real initials and my real profession.
Oh and I am not so petty as to jump on your typos when your complete lack of content and civilty makes a much bigger target.
Settle down, Francis.
Dear FXPCPA, I am a “she” not a “he.” I’m not brain-dead either. I gave BiW kudos on his work when he said he wrote it.
Part of our jobs as legal professionals is to question everything. BiW knows that. The problem is that he, unfortunately, has a bunch of nitwits like you and Dick who think he needs defending. BiW is quite capable of telling me to pack sand and doesn’t need a brick layer (or whatever Dick does for a living) and an accountant fighting his battles for him. You do him a disservice by taking up the banner like he’s helpless and defenseless.
Grow up.
PS I looked here
http://asswhistles.com/
and, no, I’m not pictured there. I’ve been called worse by better, bud.
Someday, I’d like to have more than one post that gets linked in other places that doesn’t end up with a flamewar in the comment thread.
Folly,
That’s good to know(that you are a she). I apologize for misinterpreting your remarks. And if you read my later comment I don’t presume to speak for the good counselor. Again I apologize for calling you a name first. That was bad manners and inappropriate. It was an opinion. Obviously one formed out of ignorance of the players involved. Again madame I sincerly apologize for offending you.
B is W
I apologize to you for speaking intemperately, she was right I had never seen her in the remarks and I had no idea where she was coming from. Again I fully realize you don’t need me to defend you. I guess that’s what happens when you let ideology take over for reasoned thought.Mea Culpa. In the future if allowed to post comments I will refrain from mentioning particular personalities. Normally I don’t, I won’t again.
Someday, I’d like to have more than one post that gets linked in other places that doesn’t end up with a flamewar in the comment thread.
Folly didn’t start one. Your buddies jumped her shit in your “defense”.
Normally I don’t, I won’t again.
BULLSHIT. Obviously you do. Own it.
It was not my intent to start a flame war. I asked a question, BiW answered it and I complimented him on a job well done. It is an excellent post and summary of the last year in this country.
However, every single time I post a question or a comment, the usual suspects jump out of the wordwork and start a gang bang out of personal animosity. I could recite the alphabet or the national anthem and some one would get nasty.
There was a time when BiW and I could discuss things freely. Those times are gone due to certain individuals and their personal vendetta.
I will no longer comment at this site. BiW, I wish you the best of luck.
Sorry, that last post was me.
I never disowned it. I started I took the shit for it the end. I apologized to the people who deserved it. I was wrong. You can believe or not believe as you will. Normally I engage in long rambling incoherent posts(sort of like this one).
Again, Folly I apologize for starting this. It was bad form.
I went back and examined the things said in this thread.
1. It was implied that I had taken someone else’s work, and passed it off as my own. I am willing to believe that you were tired and allowed yourself to say something that you did not mean to imply, in spite of the fact that it was certainly possible to infer much, if not all of my lengthy explanation if you took the minute or so necessary for each Google hit to click through and read the first paragraph or two.
However, it was also possible to raise the question privately at first before publically phrasing your inquiry as you did. Not only have you and I regularly conversed by email in the past, even if you had lost that address, it is still in the sidebar. It would not have been too troubling for you to make the inquiry privately, and then if the answer did not satisfy, you could then ask publically, here, or raise the question at some of the other places where it was linked or posted, if you were concerned that such a comment might not see daylight here.
2. Dick says what Dick says. You see it as one of my “buddies jumping in [Folly’s] shit in my defense.” As has been pointed out, I don’t need others to defend me. What he said does not constitute a defense, poor, or otherwise. What it does do is pick up on the tone of the question raised, and answer what he believed to be the sentiment underlying the question. Hate him for it, or don’t, it really doesn’t matter. We all started reading Dick years ago because his opinions are almost always bold, brash, and occaisonally brutal. He hasn’t stopped being himself, and recently admitted on his own blog that he doesn’t have the same patience as other blogging acquaintances (not me) that they exhibit for other people (not you).
While what he said didn’t help matters because it invited a response, I can’t take it as a defense, because if it was, it utterly failed. It offered no facts to dispense with the question, nor did it question the logic and reason of the the question. Instead, it took the question, and some degree of prior knowledge, and inferred what it meant about the questioner. That probably constitues a critique of sorts, but not a defense.
3. fxpcpa commented after the real defense had been presented. He had the benefit of hindsight with regard to the question and the answer, but no personal history or experience with which to form an informed opinion about the questioner. It is unfortunate, but it is a mistake we all have made at one time or another, and he apologized for it. As far as I am concerned, that closes the matter.
4. The rope comment and the criticism of it (and similar comments in other threads here and elsewhere…)
You have implied more than once that such talk is just useless bullshit. The problem is that the critcism is as cynical and useless as it proports the original statement to be.
In an active comment thread, on The Reclamation of Independence post, you first tossed the “its all bullshit, you aren’t willing to do anything because you’ll have to give up your cushy chair and ham sandwich” or something to that effect. To be honest, I really struggled with a response, not because I believe you to be correct, but because something in your reasoning wasn’t ringing true. I am a christian. Maybe not a good one, but I am a work in process, and I do understand that some ideas are worth dying for, and at some point the you stop talking and start walking. That, and something I saw in the response to that post really nagged me with regard to that comment. That something has only recently started to make some sense to me, and I’m still not sure that I can adequately put it into words.
I don’t know how deeply you’ve delved into the epistomology; I know it wouldn’t be my first choice of topic to pursue in my spare time, but in that serendipitous way that seems to happen to me a lot, some recent reading has enabled me to see the connections between a lot of things that I felt were related, although it was not immediately obvious how.
Surely you are entitled to your “Screw you, you talk big, but you aren’t willing to step out and do anything about it” opinion but as I watched the reaction to that post, and the very clear indication that it struck a chord with a lot of people, I could see that there was a “the rest of the story” here, even if it wasn’t neatly gift wrapped and set out for all to see.
Was that post wordy? Yes, but that was how the words came to me. Did it adopt a tone that you felt was inappropriate? Clearly, as the “bloviating” criticism demonstrated. Neverless, there were many other positive reactions to it. Why? Are these people simply unsophisticated rubes for whom a plate of Alpo is no different than caviar? Maybe, but they also could see that there was an element of truth in what I said. I wasn’t the first to say those things. I have no exclusive claim on the ideas. But the manner in which it was presented said somethings that are rarely heard outside of our rarified medium or talk radio these days.
If I took your criticism at face value, then I can only assume that you would have expected every patriot farmer who expressed his opinion about the Crown’s tyrannies to simply arm themselves with muskets and march off, in uncoordinated fashion and without a plan to set things right with the British, rather than organizing and keeping company with those of like mind, and answering the call when our adversary makes a move that we can all recognize as one too far, like the march on Concord. The action you criticize us for not taking right now would be doomed to failure because it simply is not yet time (and I pray it never will be), but also because such action would surely result in division and persecution by a government so corpulent with its own corruption that its very coherence is at risk, but still determined to rob us of every right that was never intended for it, but only for we alone.
Maybe you can see this, and maybe you won’t, but frankly I’m tired of this particular argument because I see it carrying the potential to harm the conservative cause much more than it could ever help it. There is a time for everything, and the time for the terrible things we all contemplate is not here yet, but it harms nothing to keep your powder dry and to let your opponent that you have an eye on them.
Oh…and “jump on [your] typos”? No. I’d rather try to have a substantive conversation, rather than championing form over substance. We get enough of that in our meatspace lives right now, don’t we?
Folly,
I simply find it odd that you only comment here in an attempt to knock BiW down, to pick, and accuse him of wrongdoing. You pulled this same stunt on a post a month or so back, and now you do it again.
You and I see political issues virtually eye to eye, but you continually attack, and then you act as if you’re insulted when somebody fires back.
What, are you stupid, or just terminally thick headed?
You and I have been and can be friends, but you must do a few things before it’ll ever happen, and honestly I could care less if it does.
1. We owe you nothing. Stop acting like we do.
2. Knock that chip off your shoulder, both you and M.
Y’all are the two biggest assholes on the internet today.
Bar none, no question about it.
3. Who cares what you or I say or type? I mean, really.
4. Get over yourself. You’re not special, nor are you better than others, so please, stop acting as if you are.
And just so you know, I used my rope today.
Love the list. Don’t know how true the Chavez point is but otherwise I likie.
B is W
Thank you for your graciousness it is greatly appreciated. I will be more circumspect in the future.
Y’all are the two biggest assholes on the internet today.
Bar none, no question about it.
Bigger assholes leave comments that clearly show they have no regard for one’s personal business that doesn’t remotely relate to the thread in question. That certainly isn’t Folly or I. Have a nice life, “Dick”. Hope the rope didn’t chafe too much.
BiW: I didn’t read your comment as I don’t intend to come over here again. However, try defending the people that you have poured your heart and soul out to over the phone rather than faceless nitwits on the Internet.
Dick: I’m not the one with the problem. You started it again with your shitty comment. Try figuring out why you’re so pissed off all the time. People who make the comments you make generally have some deep-seated issues they need to address. Maybe your Dad didn’t love you or something. All I know is that I’ve never posted personal information given to me by BiW or anyone else on my site and trust me, I’m full of information about a whole bunch of people.
I asked a question, it was answered, I offered my congratulations on a post well done. Again, I didn’t start the bullshit but I’m getting the blame for it. Sounds to me like there’s some sexism going on around here by the He Man Women Haters Club.
“Uh, BiW, I’ve seen this at different blog sites on Google search. Is this a re-post of someone else’s work or your own original piece? And no, I’m not jealous. Just a firm believer in attributing authorship where it belongs.”
Ya know, you may be an unemployed mouthpiece and all, and you can claim all sorts of bullshit about how I started it.
But everybody on the fucking planet can plainly see your venom and disdain for BiW in this shitty and outright mean comment.
Once again, you’ll never get it. To your ‘friends’, you’re evil, hateful, spiteful, and easily make the Grinch look like great neighbor material as compared to yourselves.
Oh, and you’ve never sold a single book. Lmao!
outright mean comment.
This from the king of shitty comments.
How many copies of that vanity press book have you sold, “Dick”?
Three? Five? Enough to cover the cost of massaging your own ego? Keep it up, “Dick”. I guarantee I can make shit here a lot worse than you possibly can. I suggest you just run along back to your site before I decide to make things REALLY ugly here. In fact, BiW might want to think about closing comments here pretty goddamned quick if you don’t back the fuck off of Folly.
BiW: Better jerk your dog’s leash, pronto.
Oh dear. I must have hit home with that, “Daddy didn’t love you,” comment.
I’m not unemployed, genius. I’m self-employed. Big difference.
I love BiW like a brother, and like a brother, I can question him. It wasn’t done out of spite. It simply did not resemble his usual writing style. Add to that the fact that the title of of, “The Reclaimation of Independence,” just happens to also be a title of a political science book written 60 years ago. It should have been credited to that original author but was not. A mere oversight, perhaps?
My “friends?” Which “friends” would those be? The ones I see and interact with in real life or the ones on the Internet who wouldn’t know me from Eve if they met me on the street? My real friends know me as honest, trustworthy, loyal, and independent. I don’t kiss ass to part of the “in crowd.”
I feel sorry for you, Dick. I truly do. You have a lot of misplaced anger that you direct at everyone else.
Why is it that your little dog Toto must follow you everywhere?
Can you not stand on your on merit, or do you even have any?
And speaking of Toto, are all of the other contractors still being mean to you? Wahhhhhh!!!! How bout them taxes? They paid yet?
Vanity press? Works for me just dandy. Money’s money. Once again, how many books have you published?
None, that’s how many.
Oh, and your little, “You don’t know me!” remark…
heh… Boys talk. They always have and always will, and your boy couldn’t STFU. Once again, heh…
Your turn to throw a chair.
Oh, and I meant unemployable. Big difference.
And just so you know, self employed only means something if you actually have work.
Hi Dick, not unemployable, dear. Not that you would know anything about the legal profession.
I have clients. In fact, got a court hearing tomorrow. My schedule is pretty busy in fact.
Boys, talk, eh? Girls talk too, darling and I have loads to talk about. Especially when someone encourages another to dump his unfaithful wife to pursue other interests….
This would be me.
Taxes paid? Yeah. You a big fan of Uncle Sam all of a sudden that you try to use that as a means to try and insult me?
What happened to the big talker that was tired of all of us getting fucked up the ass by the government? You a turncoat now? Gettng paid by the IRS to find tax dodgers and cheats? At least I am not so broke that I have to act like a fucking redneck and eat squirrel for dinner, Jethro.
Fuck you and your little dog too, asswipe.
Oops, that one was me…
Toodles, all. It’s been loads of fun.
Perhaps this year, I’ll fork out a couple of grand and publish one of my books. Then again, it really doesn’t mean that one is a real writer, does it? Self-publishing usually comes after one has been rejected by publishing houses and the author is so convinced that he has talent that he’ll fork out the money to prove it. It doesn’t mean he has talent, of course, because really any idiot with a manuscript can pay to have it printed.
Whoops! Must’ve hit a nerve.
Damn it’s fun watching you two tards come unwound!
Wahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!
This is just like Springer, only better!
What are you in trouble for that you have to show up in court?
Oh Folly! You funny!
It’s still a terrific piece, BiW. I trust you’re enjoying the increase in traffic.
The winner writes the history, and I won, hands down.
Now, let me pick up all of this busted up furniture and laugh.
Add to that the fact that the title of of, “The Reclaimation of Independence,” just happens to also be a title of a political science book written 60 years ago. It should have been credited to that original author but was not. A mere oversight, perhaps?
I see. So before I put a title on anything, I have to:
1.)Do a search for other written material with the same title; and
2.) Attribute it to that previous author, even if I never saw or heard of that particular work or title before writing my post? Really? That seems like a pretty high bar. High enough that it made me curious. So I spent all of five minutes at Amazon.com. I typed in the search “Faith of our fathers”. What came back was:
1. The Faith of Our Fathers, by James Cardinal Gibbons
2. The Faiths of Our Fathers: What America’s Founders Really Believed, by Alf Mapp
3. Faith of Our Fathers by Chan Kei Thong and Charlene L. Fu
4. Faith of Our Fathers: A House Divided by Nancy Campbell Allen
5. Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir by John McCain
6. The Faiths of the Founding Fathers by David L. Holmes
7. Faith Of Our Fathers: Reflections On Catholic Traditions (Continuum Icons) by Eamon Duffy
8. Faith of Our Fathers: Through the Perilous Fight (Faith of Our Fathers Series #3) by Nancy Campbell Allen
9. Faith of Our Fathers: A Study of the Nicene Creed by L. Charles Jackson
Now that was on the first page of the search only, and I omitted the NON-print materials like DVDs and CDs.
http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1262570156/ref=sr_pg_1?ie=UTF8&rs=&keywords=Faith%20of%20our%20fathers&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3AFaith%20of%20our%20fathers&page=1
Now, I couldn’t use the “Look inside” feature for all the titles, but in the ones I could, I didn’t see any attribution to the authors with the titles prior, or very, very similar, but I may have just missed it. Or maybe their publishers didn’t really see an issue with it. I don’t know. But seeing as I hadn’t ever heard of the book, and intent is an element of fraud, as you know, it just doesn’t rise to the level of plagiarism, and as I have never read it, it can’t fairly be said that it influenced what I wrote. And since it was written 60 years ago, and I wrote about contemporary issues, I doubt that author and I were writing about the same things.
As it happens, it’s a settled matter of law that titles are not copyrightable. I confronted the same issue a few years ago, over my first novel.
I re-iterate, remarkable patience towards someone who is essentially calling you a plagiarist. And by what I can see in following this thread, intimated by someone who should know better.
The preceding statement was a compliment and was not intended as a defense or for any other purposes.
“Especially when someone encourages another to dump his unfaithful wife to pursue other interests….”
“Folly
Oops, that one was me…”
With the current and ex no less.
Jesus, it’s like watching three monkeys fling shit at each other just because they can. No substance, just a lot of foul crap.
BiW, nice job on the post.
Fuck you, Watson.
Now we all know you don’t have the balls to stand for your friends.
That’s why I love you Dick. You’re like Pavlov’s dog. Dance monkey, dance!
You’re right, I don’t have balls. But I will stand up for my friends and fight ’til the end to protect them. That’s where you and I are exactly the same.
No you won’t. You’re a gutless fucking Liberal coward.
Not to mention, a worthless shitbird who’s under the false impression that he has a remote.
Oh, and unless you have a PhD in biology and have worked as a molecular biologist for the past ten years or better, I’d lose that fucking moniker. Either that, or I cut my wife lose on your tired ass, and she’ll tear you a brand new ass.
Next up, the jive! Get your dancin’ shoes on, Richard! You and I are going dancing tonight!
Perhaps a nice foxtrot next?
I do love you, Richard. You are my favorite blogger of all time.
PS. – I know quite a bit about molecular biology. Your wife would be impressed.
P.P.S. – I am not a liberal by a long shot. As a matter of fact, I fall more towards the Libertarian side. If you noticed, in my first post, I gave props to your buddy BiW for this post. I thought it was good. Maybe you should read the whole post before slinging insults left and right.
So in other words, you’ve taken a couple of courses, but other that that… not really. Another faux conservative.
Now, allow me to explain something to you.
Your money quote:
“I will stand up for my friends and fight ’til the end to protect them.”
Now I understand BiW might not be a friend, but the fact is, you never said shit, until it was over, when you thought you’d be safe.
Once again, you’re nothing but a gutless Liberal coward who should be strung up until ya stop breathing.
Fuck you, and your parents.
Now, now Richard. My parents wouldn’t be too happy to hear you say that. There’s no need to bring them into this.
I only said shit when it was over because my first visit to this site was yesterday. I believe your buddy BiW can confirm that information with you, if he has a reliable StatCounter. Otherwise, I would have been happy to jump in quicker.
BiW is not my friend, in fact, I don’t know him well at all. I don’t know why you insist on calling me a liberal when you and I hold the same values, but I guess that’s just your meathead noggin talking. I’m far from worried about being safe, as I know that I can fend for myself quite well, and my partner would fight like a pit bull to defend me as well.
Is graduate school in Genetics good enough for you? That’s my experience. So, I’m guessing that I have experience enough for your standards. What would you like to talk about? Telomeres? Mitosis? Plasmids? By the way, Ph.D. has some punctuation in between the letters, or did your wife not tell you how to spell that correctly?
Sorry douche bag, graduate school doesn’t quite cut it.
And yes, with you I smell nothing but an Obama voting, Democratic Underground reading, MSNBC watching Liberal.
You’re mentally weak, and bring your ol’ lady to the party, that is, if ya don’t mind losing her.
And just let her know in advance, I like my eggs over medium.
Finally, once again, your parents should be beaten and scalded, for not teaching you whom you should avoid picking fights .
Wow, Richard. Does your wife have a Ph.D.? Just checking.
My “ol’ lady” would probably take offense to being called that, just to let you know. More like my “personal bodyguard.”
Obama voting. LOL! I voted for McCain, as he was the lesser of two evils, though Fred Thompson would have been my ultimate choice. Ron Paul had lots of good things to say, except for the fact when he turned into an insane idiot, so I guess McCain was the best bet I had. Unfortunately, he lost and we’re stuck with the Commie Osama bin Barack. It’s cool though, if you want to try to drive away a member of your own party. I’ll prefer to make my own decisions, thanks. I’m a free thinker like that, ya know?
My parents are wise beyond their years and they are smart Conservatives as well. They have been as far as I can remember. I’m sure your right wing father would agree with them on most, if not all points and they’d probably get along like peas and carrots, as Forrest Gump would say. It’s awful rude of you to insult them without knowing them.
Shall we tango next, Richard? I do love a good Argentinian tango.
God I fucked up that last sentence…
Personal bodyguard? How big is this ol’ gal? Does she shave her face? And I’m terrified to ask about the rest.
Your parents are leftist commies, just like you, and your ol’ lady.
“Ron Paul had lots of good things to say, except for the fact when he turned into an insane idiot,”
Most accurate and funniest fucking statement I’ve read this week!
And stop watching that godawful “So you think you can dance”.
No real conservative would ever be caught watching that trash.
(yeah, I’ll be beaten for that one)
Oh, if you want to write at BDP, just send me an email and I’ll zip ya off a log on.
You need a better outlet, and yes, that was a compliment.
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Richard, lets get down to facts here. I mean, if your going to try to insult me and my family, you should at least have the facts straight, so as to get the most sting. Mom & dad are pro-life and against stem cell research. If I’m not mistaken, you support stem cell research and are wishy washy over the whole abortion thing. So, who is the real liberal here?
As for my partner, he gets a little stubble sometimes, but nothing I’d call a real beard. I like men, Dick, so try a different angle of insult.
Thanks for the writing offer, but I just don’t have the time.
Actually, the question should be, who’s cut more of the libertarian cloth.
As far as the partner thing, I surrender as I just realized you’re either gay, or have tits, and I’m guessing the latter.
See ya around, comrade.
Oh, big tough guy internet bully won’t debate with a girl? You pussing out on me, Dick? Or is it that you can dish it out but can’t take it? Or maybe your only able to sling insults instead of intelligent conversation?
Let’s debate, Sugarbritches.
Pick your topic.
This is probably not the place. We can take this elsewhere, no problem, and debate anything you like. I suppose your webpage is the ideal place.
Frankly, at this point, all we’re going back and forth about is discussing the insults you threw at me and my family after I said watching you and Folly and grigoryrasputin was like watching monkeys sling shit. Which I still think is true, considering all you three did was sling insults at each other.
By the way, I highly commend you for sticking up for your friend. Folly’s original comment was uncalled for and shame on her for trying to run and say she didn’t start anything, when she knows damn well it was purposefully inflammatory.
With friends like that, who needs enemies.
Feel free to debate here. It could be interesting, and someone might learn something. Probably me.
Okay, how about you get nekkid, take some photos, and send them to me?
Then we’ll decide if if I’m gonna give ya a quality muleing.
Check your email. You can use me as your next Fatty Friday post.
Damn honey…
Fat, you ain’t.
To be continued, in email.
Awww, a happy ending! 🙂
Catching up on old blogs that led me here. BIW Happy New Year and all that. It’s been years. Glad you’re still around. 🙂