tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post5778648633032434665..comments2024-03-28T14:53:38.827-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: Trolling and Trawling and Crawfishing and CrabbingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-29227339758022045632013-05-22T14:32:04.322-04:002013-05-22T14:32:04.322-04:00Now you've done it, BDR. You're headed fo...Now you've done it, BDR. You're headed for the FEMA camps.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-38816811124269062052013-05-22T14:16:25.059-04:002013-05-22T14:16:25.059-04:00You're not a name, you're a free man!
Lin...You're not a name, you're a free man!<br /><br />Link thanks, and here's where I'd normally say "buy some Uncle Acid," but they don't hypersonic pick, if ye still dabble in the metal. <br /><br />If opera didn't employ histrionics masquerading as sopranos and the like, I'd probably long less for the music-only pieces parts. I get the talent, but I don't like my guitar that high pitched, so a human voice doesn't move me in that way either.<br /><br />Randal Graveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08728992897551848531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-22227805500465991382013-05-22T13:38:26.658-04:002013-05-22T13:38:26.658-04:00Hi, Jeff. I looked you up, and inferred which of t...Hi, Jeff. I looked you up, and inferred which of the several people by that name you are. <br /><br />I persist in using my screen name, mainly for reasons of personal privacy from random persons (like myself). Like you, I am nobody. No reasonable person, and no reasonable government functionary, would think it was worth their while to give me a hard time. On the other hand, there are a lot of unreasonable people out there.<br /><br />I was explaining to missus charley just last week that my inconsequentiality was my main protection from being called to account for my sometimes outspoken online opinions, in which I have expressed my desire that prominent persons receive fair trials, and then the punishments called for by existing law. I believe that these expressions of opinion are part of my permanent record, and that linking the opinions expressed by my screen name to my meat-world identity would be trivial. <br /><br />I also believe that the opinions I have expressed in the letters column of a globally printed newspaper, under my own name, while not going quite so far as calling for "fair trials", may have been enough to deprive my niece (who shares the same last name) of a security clearance she lost a couple of years ago in one of her first post-college jobs - working for a private contractor doing security clearances, as it happened. See if you agree - here's what I wrote under my real name - published in July 2008:<br /><br />Sir, I am a contemporary of Neil Young, and appreciated your interview “The gentler side of anger” (Life & Arts, July 5/6). I look forward to seeing his new film, CSNY Déjà Vu. However, I take issue with characterising Young’s criticism of the Bush gang as “pure pop-paranoia”.<br /><br />I have concluded, with much sadness, that the American militarism that brought us war with Vietnam when I was young, and war with Iraq today, is not a flaw of our socioeconomic system, but a feature. I recommend to your writer, and to all interested readers, Eugene Jarecki’s documentary film, Why We Fight, which includes President Eisenhower’s warning about the influence of the “military-industrial complex”.<br /><br />Until our political leaders lead the fight against these “masters of war” (in Bob Dylan’s phrase), instead of speaking of US soldiers occupying foreign lands as “defending our freedom”, we can expect more war and ruinously expensive preparations for war.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.com