13 Tuesday Nov 2018
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En route to this post I was thrilled to find … more changes a-comin’:
Wheeeee. Might be a good thing. Better, at any rate, than the doings around our nation. I’ve been out and about with the people A LOT lately. No real report or judgment here. Just some words.
Fearful
Dumb
Gullible
Weak
Rotund
Make of these words what you will.
06 Tuesday Nov 2018
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Two thousandth post, here and now. A grand milestone.
2,000 posts.
6+ years (7 calendar years).
Thousands of comments, likes, and shares.
The number one best readership on the web.
YouTube video, quality to improve immediately.
Great engagement with FP, TPC, and more.
Several headaches, all mine…
It’s been a great ride so far. I’ve contemplated changes, here and there, and largely made none. That may be the pattern for the future. I will say that any modifications going forward will be for the better. And you’ll see them first.
Blah, blah, blah, blah. Let’s have a party.
Bubbly:
Smokes:
Entertainment:
By special ability, I arranged for this occasion to fall on election day – a nationwide circus just for you:
And fireworks:
Thank you, all. Post 2,001 is coming soon. Onward!
-Perrin
07 Tuesday Aug 2018
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This should be it.
Some of you have noticed that I have lately minimized my presence on FB. I’m still there, technically and for now, for FP work (posted as FP) and possibly some TPC promotions. This post should be the last post from this Highly Respected Web Log pushed (by me) to FB.
The algorithms won, I guess. That and the following render the platform of little use to me via this site.
Banning and shadow banning is bad enough. Hell, the general inanity is enough. Buying and selling banking information is unspeakable. And, when Gary Cohn compares FB to the Big Banks, circa 2008, you know something is seriously amiss.
Vox Day’s advice on the matter:
Delete your Facebook account NOW
Forget the thought policing. Forget the Infowars ban. Facebook is going to get a LOT worse very soon.
…
At this point, if you’re still on Facebook, you’re not merely putting your children’s privacy at risk and aiding and abetting your would-be destroyer, you’re downright stupid. I’ve never been banned from Facebook, I used it sparingly at best, and I got rid of my account anyhow. The ability to indirectly exchange pictures with your extended family or cyberstalk your high school boyfriend just isn’t worth it.
If you need to have group communications, get on Idka. If you want more conventional social media, try Oneway. Or go radio dark if that suits you. But regardless, at the very least, deactivate your Facebook account and encourage your friends and family to do the same. It’s not going to get better.
No, it’s not. Be warned, whether your a conservative, a libertarian, a lefty, a pot pusher, a foodie, or just a cat video-loving normie. You ain’t safe.
I will no longer respond to likes, comments, friend requests, etc. on FB (with the possible exception of my own “liking” of TPC promos – again, for now).
The good news is that you are here, right now. You can like and comment and communicate here and you can always add yourself to the automatic distribution service (see the sidebar on the PC version).
You can do the same thing at TPC and on Youtube: follow the links on the sidebar.
I see this issue, of the socials and of greater popular society, as our American Akallabeth. The man behind the throne is lying us towards destruction. We are the faithful. Man the ships.
-Perrin
09 Monday Jul 2018
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I’ve lately noticed the following annoying popup on MY site:
It appears even when I’m in WP-edit mode. So, I assume it’s there for all of you as well.
This is strictly a WordPress affair and not mine. Their Policies.
Some of that is technical and some of it is now technically/legally required – especially concerning the new EU regs. I don’t use deliberately cookies (I understand some are in the background for operations) and I wouldn’t know how even if I wanted to. My policy on the EU is clear: it is evil; abolish it immediately.
There. Now, enjoy real cookies:*
*Cookies may not be real.
29 Friday Jun 2018
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Somehow this “highly respected web log” missed the cut for Time’s 25 Most Influential People on Them Interwebs. I’m sure we fell in the second 25 … second 25,000 certainly…
In a field of pop culture garbage, a few figures stand out. Drudge is a given. Trump too; Tweets with a purpose. I imagine he’s the one right-winger safe from the safety and trusty councily SJWs.
The inclusion of “Q” was a surprise. His entry was tinged with doubt but there, too, was a sense of foreboding. What if he’s right about some things?
And, what if he is? Q or not, things keep changing. Dinesh D’Souza has a new documentary coming in August: Death of America. I’m not sure if that’s already happened, something we’re desperate to head off, or if it’s just a historical certainty. My gut feeling is that it’s a mix of all three.
If you’ll excuse me, I have to go work on the blog CV for next year’s list…
24 Sunday Jun 2018
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Happy anniversary! Six years ago commenced the blogging excellence you know as this “highly respected web log,” http://www.perrinlovett.me.
It started with THIS Simple Post.
Before a months-long hiatus, we visited upon the legal workings of Obamacare. You know, the law the GOP was going to repeal replace amend live with. The more things change…
1,820 posts later and the fun continues! Thank you all for all of your support. Here’s to another six great years.
The ravings will resume shortly… Have a great remainder of your weekend!
-Perrin
09 Wednesday May 2018
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Sadly, dear readers, we here at this “highly respected web log” did not make the top 50 websites in the US.
Similarweb.
I fear we ranked somewhere south of 51. But no lower than 51,000,000, I assume…
If the category were real, I am confident this page would be number one in the flying car skeptic, robot-hating area.
Now you know…
Know this: another TPC piece is coming shortly!
26 Thursday Apr 2018
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Whoa. One of those days when nothing starts. Or doesn’t stop. Or something.
After killing every idea for a post today, including dismissing some lingering drafts, I’ll just give you this:
Preorder The Fall of Gondolin from Amazon.
Or not… Hubba. Working on fidning that “right” idea for today. This may be it.
Tomorrow!
22 Sunday Apr 2018
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After several months of neglect I decided, tonight, to clean out the comments backlog over at FP. I did this manually, knowing that amidst all the Russian election hackers and China-Bots there might be real people trapped in the Spamville jail. There were. Three. Three out of maybe 700… The good news is that hopefully this will train the WP AI (Perrin hopeful of AI…) to kill this crap automatically in the future. It’s still a new site with a really new reboot on theme.
That works. I’ve been knocking down the spammers, here, for almost 6 years. I rarely get any now. Double-checked tonight and confirmed – only 9 POS attempts over the same time period.
Back to FP, there was more good news! Along with all that shit about free money, porn, free porn money, Costco generic Viagra (who knew?), cat paintings(??), virus invitations, incomprehensible gibberish, and foreign criminal solicitations, I found the most charming spam I have ever encountered.
I found this:
(Posted without gmail address. And, don’t y’all go surfing for the house finisher…).
It was so touching I almost let it pass. Are these not those lost Chicago lyrics we’ve heard legend tell of?
You’re the meaning in my life,
You’re my inhalation…
And to think my prepper shenanigans would make a reclusive web logger run out of the post. Hope he’s (she’s) (it’s?) not AWOL or something. Or maybe he/she/it has given up the crack pipe for whatever the hell post he/she/it/zir was inhaling on there. No idea.
But I do know this gem of a post, highly reflective of this “highly respected web log,” rarely causing run outs, beats the slow Sunday evening alternative: commentary on Emmanuel Macron’s visit to the DC funny farm…
Night!
Sputnik Int’l.Â
15 Sunday Apr 2018
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There’s more, much more, lurking and brewing about the Syria mess. Maybe not all bad, but all very interesting. That can wait.
Two items of critically less importance:
First: Sometime this coming week I shall fulfill my appointment as the C.F. Floyd Feature Writer of National Affairs for The Piedmont Chronicles. Charles Floyd was, of course, a titan of curmudgeonly intellectual action. Now I imagine he is still a terror to the Highlands gentry. TPC is of similar size and reach as this “highly respected web log.” What we’re pushing for with “national affairs” is syndication of national scope. Cro$$ those figures, dear readers.
Second: Laura Branigan, Gloria, 1982:
Andrew Lucas/YouTube.
Why? Because.
