Courtesy flush… or two
I bet ya’ll wish I’d hurry and publish some stuff to start moving all that crap off the front page.
Well, started a fresh new week today after a too short Labor Day Weekend. Maybe I can get back to some kind of normal blogging… whatever that is. My ongoing affair with the tar-babies last week was beginning to take a toll. Relentlessly being called a string of hateful names by people whose sole purpose for doing so is because you called someone an “asshat” is one of the bigger incongruities I have documented on this site to date.
They didn’t get no cherry over here. I’ve been around this block a few times before. The last time it was varying-intensity warfare drawn out over the course of more than a year. It involved someone who I, as well as a few others, believe was trying to scam the repossession industry by trying to get them to buy in to a bogus “trade association.” Its pretty well documented in the Larry the Liar category in the topic links to the left. If you are not interested, I’ll tell you the ending… we were right.
Another time was with a software vendor in the same industry right after 9/11. The thread was dubbed “The Patriot Thread” and is still referred to that today by those who remember it. It seemed at the time a lot of moral relativism was en vogue with the liberals. And it has yet to cease. That is why we have all this “Islam is a peaceful religion” bullshit meme going around.
Another quite disturbing time was when several industry leaders in a certain industry publicly denounced a well-known and well-liked locksmith vendor as being a lying cheat for taking a contract to supply key codes to a large lender. A very large lender. They figured he was cutting into their key business. When I opined that I thought it inappropriate to use the industry forums for that type of hateful rhetoric, I became the focus of a heated name-calling smear campaign once again.
Like I told the geeks, if you want to play ad hominem attack, I am their guy. Mr. Metaphor. Dennis Miller looks at me in awe. (Although I give him the edge in the obscure references dept.) Hell we can still keep going if they want. I am already depressed over it, may as well make them ride it out with me, huh?
Its likely to take a trip to the big city to get over this one.
Looking back at these situations, the common thread is that each and every time I was drawn into these things was when I spoke up just on account of principle. I noticed that it is a job that few people take on. Lets see, patriotism on two occasions. Plain ordinary decency on the locksmith matter and Consumer Advocacy on the Larry the Liar deal.
People really don’t like that, do they? Damn thankless job, it is