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Fan Mail: What Was He(?) Inhaling?

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!

 

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Two Announcements for a Sunday

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:

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Why? Because.

Fake it Till You Fake it More

27 Saturday Jan 2018

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Two issues, one Times story (good one): one, people’s online personas are misappropriated for nefarious profits by our robot “friends;” two, real people pay for fake followers. The horrors of the socials scene:

The Times reviewed business and court records showing that Devumi has more than 200,000 customers, including reality television stars, professional athletes, comedians, TED speakers, pastors and models. In most cases, the records show, they purchased their own followers. In others, their employees, agents, public relations companies, family members or friends did the buying. For just pennies each — sometimes even less — Devumi offers Twitter followers, views on YouTube, plays on SoundCloud, the music-hosting site, and endorsements on LinkedIn, the professional-networking site.

The actor John Leguizamo has Devumi followers. So do Michael Dell, the computer billionaire, and Ray Lewis, the football commentator and former Ravens linebacker. Kathy Ireland, the onetime swimsuit model who today presides over a half-billion-dollar licensing empire, has hundreds of thousands of fake Devumi followers, as does Akbar Gbajabiamila, the host of the show “American Ninja Warrior.” Even a Twitter board member, Martha Lane Fox, has some.

At a time when Facebook, Twitter and Google are grappling with an epidemic of political manipulation and fake news, Devumi’s fake followers also serve as phantom foot soldiers in political battles online. Devumi’s customers include both avid supporters and fervent critics of President Trump, and both liberal cable pundits and a reporter at the alt-right bastion Breitbart. Randy Bryce, an ironworker seeking to unseat Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, purchased Devumi followers in 2015, when he was a blogger and labor activist. Louise Linton, the wife of the Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, bought followers when she was trying to gain traction as an actress.

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NY Mag.

I tried carefully to craft a craziness no one would steal. You, some of you, might recall that, a few years back, I lost “perrinlovett.com” though lazy inattentiveness. Some pirate bought it for $30 and then offered to sell it back to me, once .me got rolling well, for $2,000-ish. Ha! Now they call trying to pay me to take it! I have my price.

But my followers do not. No fakes here or on YT or at FP. Here, of my massive three-man following, only one account is a fake I set up with a floating email. One is the real me – needs to monitor, etc. The other guy is in Russia I think.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to contact the click farm in Indones.

Happy New Year!

01 Monday Jan 2018

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Wow. Tempus Fugit! Time really flies and such.

As I just told the FP team, I can’t believe it’s already 1998.

And, so we are off to the seventh calendar year, here, at the old blog.

The posts are sure to get better than say … this one……

Anyway, happy 19… 20… whatever. Bowl prime time is today. I may venture out of the cave to see The SJWs Strike Back. Here’s a happy pic.

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Y’all come back!

Goodbye July

31 Monday Jul 2017

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I must say I’m ready for it to go. It’s generally a down month on the web and this one has been really down. It wasn’t a total collapse in readership but it was close enough.

Usually, when we hit some new milestone, I thank and herald all of you for the success. So this month, with the blame I’ll … just file it away.

The good news is:

It was the second best July ever here (barring some crazy clicking later today);

Bad months invariably are followed by boom months; and

August marks the arrival of the fall season – the very best traffic time of the year.

So, come on August!

And thanks, one and all.

-P

Dodging the Drafts…

16 Sunday Jul 2017

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I’ve mentioned this before. In the hopper, I have some 60 or so drafts – some of them over four years old (without edits). Some need publishing, some deletion, and some are just notes for me.

Therefore, I figure I’ll use the slow month of July to dig into them. If I can finish one up as I originally intended, I’ll do so. Otherwise I plan to throw up what exists now, here, and then maybe expound at Patreon.

In keeping with tradition, I make no further progress on this today…

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The Fifth Anniversary Special (2012-2017)

24 Saturday Jun 2017

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Born of fire. It was a blazingly hot summer day, five years ago, when I first penned this quick little intro blurb:

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An inauspicious start if ever…

I mean it was hot, like 104 hot. Four days later, I got around to a real posting: The Shared Responsibility TAX: ObamaCare a hit with the Supremes…

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It was still hot as Hades – I even noted that in the first sentence. Today, it’s not so bad. Yesterday, was more like it; I undertook the first heavy outdoor activity of the year, and I picked the first near-100 degree day to do it. Got it now: yard work in the cool; blog in the heat. Or is that backwards? Heatstroke typing…

ObamaCare has been a recurrent sub-theme over the years. The title has shifted to TrumpCare, or GOPCare, or WhoCares, or something; the problems remain. The first problem is the sheer stupidity and criminal neglect of Washington. Yesterday, Rand Paul (not his father, but all we have left) interjected a little sanity into the malaise: Rand Paul: Insurance should be available for $1 a day.

I’m not entirely sure anything can be had for $1 per day but I like the concept. What he’s talking about would require a renaissance in insurance and medical coverage. It’s happening here and there, naturally, on the medical front. The insurance business racket is another story. As Rand points out, the main purpose of the old law seems to be to stabilize insurance syndicate profits.

But, please, I babble – perhaps the most common feature of the site. That’s not what we’re here for today, is it?

FIVE YEARS

And, thank you so very much! When I started I really had no idea what I was doing. I’m proud of my consistency in that regard… But it seems to work. There’s been massive growth, month over month, and year over year – all thanks to you. And “You” is a big, broad group. Primarily a US-centric endeavor, with vast Western defensive leanings, I manage to reach people in some 130 or so countries.

The top nine for 2017 so far:

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For perspective: I’ve had more traffic this week, a slow one, than I had in all of 2012. Consistency plays a part in that; for a while, there was none.

In June of 2012 I rattled off the above two posts. Then there was silence. In February of 2013 I resumed the labor and piped away, periodically, until September. Then came more silence. A jabbering or two in June and July, 2014. More silence. In January, 2015, on the advice of a friend, I commenced persistent work. This month makes 30 months in a row. I’ve now had at least one article or post per day for over a year.

And, as I always say, I’m just getting started. There’s always more and better to come, just around the corner. Stay tuned.

As a thank you for your devoted and loyal readership, I procured some balloons.

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Have some cake before you go.

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Happy birthday, little website. Thank you, dear readers, one and all, and please hurry back.

– Perrin

Yes, They Should Probably Start Worrying

09 Friday Jun 2017

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This is both an attempt to clear some material out of the hopper with a combination post and an attempt to bolster the sagging end of a great, high-traffic week. Let’s see it the one begets the other or visa versa.

The third great wave of Islamic conquest in the West rolls on, nearly unopposed. Nearly, but not completely. As the Mohammedans push into our territory, they bring with them their backwards ways (female genital mutilation, etc.) and their Sharia laws (just for them – to start…). It seems a few Americans are awake and revolting against these intrusions, protesting Sharia at the least.

The Mohammedans, always helpless victims, cry out about their fears over the backlash.

Looking ahead, Muslim leaders and others are concerned about anti-Shariah, or Islamic law, marches planned for Saturday in Seattle and about two-dozen other U.S. cities, saying the marches are really anti-Muslim. They consider the incidents in Portland and Eugene, and other recent anti-Muslim crimes in America, part of an alarming trend that came to the forefront in last year’s presidential election with far-right activists portraying Islam — and all Muslims — as a threat.

“Our Muslim community is feeling a tremendous amount of stress and pressure,” said former Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, who plans to attend a counter-rally Saturday. “It’s important for local leaders to express solidarity and make clear we stand against bigotry, against racism and with our Muslim neighbors in the state and beyond.”

Stress and pressure, horrible, yes. Maybe they should leave such a stressful, pressuring society in favor of their homelands where their ways are the norm?

They feel pressured even as we tolerate attack after attack from their more radical brethren. And they promise more attacks – daily and everywhere against all Westerners. I believe them. And they recruit our “citizens” into their most barbaric organisations.

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Coming to your town – now.

Even Reality Winner (Real Name) felt their pull somehow. Amid her crazed rambling and leaking, she expressed varied support for Islamic terrorism causes and actions. This has little to do with my evolving theory in the matter. Anyway, were I her, I would strongly consider an insanity defense. The crossfit stands as half proof for this assertion.

Finally, and quite off topic, I have been meaning to write something based on This Article about enduring bad graduation speeches. I’m not going to get around to it, so I’m letting go. Just know and understand that I once endured the babbling craziness of a John Kerry speech (UMass Lowell graduation, 2008). I survived with the assistance of Scotch whiskey.

That is all….