In 4' rollers, against the wind in a 29 Outlaw
06-13-2008 | 11:01 AM
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06-13-2008 | 11:20 AM
#74
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From: Beautiful North Carolina
My complaint about Mr. TexomaPowerboater
As much as I enjoy writing letter after letter about Mr. TexomaPowerboater, the fact remains that TexomaPowerboater's mind is so twisted, it's doubtful whether anyone can straighten him out. I guess I should start by saying that some people don't seem to mind that TexomaPowerboater likes to substitute rumor and gossip for bona fide evidence. What an uninformed world we live in! He likes to quote all of the saccharine, sticky moralisms about "human rights" and the evils of antipluralism. But as soon as we stop paying attention, TexomaPowerboater invariably instructs his loyalists to vilify our history, character, values, and traditions. Then, when someone notices, the pattern repeats from the beginning. Though this game may seem perverse beyond belief to any sane individual it makes perfect sense in light of TexomaPowerboater's maladroit litanies.
When I say that TexomaPowerboater carries nothing but hatred and destruction in his heart, this does not, I repeat, does not mean that malodorous vendors of anti-intellectualism make the best scout leaders and schoolteachers. This is a common fallacy held by dysfunctional nabobs of frotteurism. His protests all stem from one, simple, faulty premise -- that he understands the difference between civilization and savagery. TexomaPowerboater is trying hard to convince a substantial number of gruesome urban guerrillas to guarantee the destruction of anything that looks like a vital community. He presumably believes that the "hundredth-monkey phenomenon" will spontaneously incite sanctimonious perjurers to behave likewise. The reality, however, is that TexomaPowerboater will oppose the visceral views of 98 percent of the nation's citizens because he possesses a hatred that defies all logic and understanding, that cannot be quantified or reasoned away, and that savagely possesses garrulous, grotty saboteurs with self-righteous and uncontrollable rage. He turns his back on those who have been the most loyal to him. Stated differently, TexomaPowerboater claims to have read somewhere that profits come before people. I don't doubt that he has indeed read such a thing; one can find all sorts of crazy stuff on the Internet. More reliable sources, however, tend to agree that I challenge TexomaPowerboater to point out any text in this letter that proposes that the Universe belongs to him by right. It isn't there. There's neither a hint nor a suggestion of such a thing. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
As much as I enjoy writing letter after letter about Mr. TexomaPowerboater, the fact remains that TexomaPowerboater's mind is so twisted, it's doubtful whether anyone can straighten him out. I guess I should start by saying that some people don't seem to mind that TexomaPowerboater likes to substitute rumor and gossip for bona fide evidence. What an uninformed world we live in! He likes to quote all of the saccharine, sticky moralisms about "human rights" and the evils of antipluralism. But as soon as we stop paying attention, TexomaPowerboater invariably instructs his loyalists to vilify our history, character, values, and traditions. Then, when someone notices, the pattern repeats from the beginning. Though this game may seem perverse beyond belief to any sane individual it makes perfect sense in light of TexomaPowerboater's maladroit litanies.
When I say that TexomaPowerboater carries nothing but hatred and destruction in his heart, this does not, I repeat, does not mean that malodorous vendors of anti-intellectualism make the best scout leaders and schoolteachers. This is a common fallacy held by dysfunctional nabobs of frotteurism. His protests all stem from one, simple, faulty premise -- that he understands the difference between civilization and savagery. TexomaPowerboater is trying hard to convince a substantial number of gruesome urban guerrillas to guarantee the destruction of anything that looks like a vital community. He presumably believes that the "hundredth-monkey phenomenon" will spontaneously incite sanctimonious perjurers to behave likewise. The reality, however, is that TexomaPowerboater will oppose the visceral views of 98 percent of the nation's citizens because he possesses a hatred that defies all logic and understanding, that cannot be quantified or reasoned away, and that savagely possesses garrulous, grotty saboteurs with self-righteous and uncontrollable rage. He turns his back on those who have been the most loyal to him. Stated differently, TexomaPowerboater claims to have read somewhere that profits come before people. I don't doubt that he has indeed read such a thing; one can find all sorts of crazy stuff on the Internet. More reliable sources, however, tend to agree that I challenge TexomaPowerboater to point out any text in this letter that proposes that the Universe belongs to him by right. It isn't there. There's neither a hint nor a suggestion of such a thing. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
06-13-2008 | 11:22 AM
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From: Beautiful North Carolina
My complaint about Mr. Jason Smith
Okay, let's do it. Let's improve the physical and spiritual quality of life for the population at present and for those yet to come. For starters, some of the facts I'm about to present may seem shocking. This they certainly are. However, Mr. Jason Smith has certainly never given evidence of thinking extensively. Or at all, for that matter. He has repeatedly threatened to compromise the things that define us, including integrity, justice, love, and sharing. Maybe that's just for maximum scaremongering effect. Or maybe it's because if you want to hide something from Mr. Smith, you just have to put it in a book.
Mr. Smith is willing to promote truth and justice when it's convenient. But when it threatens his creature comforts, Mr. Smith throws principle to the wind. Don't give his orations a credibility they don't deserve. To get even the simplest message into the consciousness of the worst sorts of blockish beggars there are it has to be repeated at least fifty times. Now, I don't want to insult your intelligence by telling you the following fifty times, but if you're like most people you just shrug your shoulders whenever you hear about his latest quips. When your shoulders get tired of shrugging I hope you'll realize that Mr. Smith plans to pit people against each other. He has instructed his vicegerents not to discuss this or even admit to his plan's existence. Obviously, Mr. Smith knows he has something to hide.
What Mr. Smith fails to mention in his newsgroup postings is actually quite telling. For example, did you know that Mr. Smith wants to condemn innocent people to death? Or that he is too stinking to reason with? Some day, I want to fight tooth and nail against Mr. Jason Smith. But you don't have to wait for that. What you can do now is talk to everyone you know about the things I've told you in this letter. Use every medium available to you. Use the Internet. Use your telephone. Use radio and newspapers. And whatever you do, never be afraid to speak out against the evil that is Jason Smith.
Okay, let's do it. Let's improve the physical and spiritual quality of life for the population at present and for those yet to come. For starters, some of the facts I'm about to present may seem shocking. This they certainly are. However, Mr. Jason Smith has certainly never given evidence of thinking extensively. Or at all, for that matter. He has repeatedly threatened to compromise the things that define us, including integrity, justice, love, and sharing. Maybe that's just for maximum scaremongering effect. Or maybe it's because if you want to hide something from Mr. Smith, you just have to put it in a book.
Mr. Smith is willing to promote truth and justice when it's convenient. But when it threatens his creature comforts, Mr. Smith throws principle to the wind. Don't give his orations a credibility they don't deserve. To get even the simplest message into the consciousness of the worst sorts of blockish beggars there are it has to be repeated at least fifty times. Now, I don't want to insult your intelligence by telling you the following fifty times, but if you're like most people you just shrug your shoulders whenever you hear about his latest quips. When your shoulders get tired of shrugging I hope you'll realize that Mr. Smith plans to pit people against each other. He has instructed his vicegerents not to discuss this or even admit to his plan's existence. Obviously, Mr. Smith knows he has something to hide.
What Mr. Smith fails to mention in his newsgroup postings is actually quite telling. For example, did you know that Mr. Smith wants to condemn innocent people to death? Or that he is too stinking to reason with? Some day, I want to fight tooth and nail against Mr. Jason Smith. But you don't have to wait for that. What you can do now is talk to everyone you know about the things I've told you in this letter. Use every medium available to you. Use the Internet. Use your telephone. Use radio and newspapers. And whatever you do, never be afraid to speak out against the evil that is Jason Smith.
06-13-2008 | 11:24 AM
#76
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From: Beautiful North Carolina
My complaint about Mr. Never Enuff
In a prior letter, I identified a set of ideological premises as superordinate constructions that maintain the rhetorical context in which Mr. Never Enuff is able to twist the teaching of history to suit his militant, treasonous purposes. I will now elaborate on three of his most despicable premises:
The ancient Egyptians used psychic powers to build the pyramids.
His activities prevent smallpox.
"The norm" shouldn't have to worry about how the exceptions feel.
Let's review the errors in his statements in order. First, the right thing to do in this case is determined by various vectors of forces in an endless multidimensional tug-of-war involving ropes leading out in many directions.
Most of us who have been around for a while realize that Mr. Enuff is out of touch with reality. (Yes, Mr. Enuff has all the characteristics of a dog except loyalty, but that's a different story.) Wouldn't it be wonderful if we lived in a world without untrustworthy skinheads? On a more pedestrian level, I am certain that if I asked the next person I meet if he would want Mr. Enuff to rob us of our lives, our health, our honor, and our belongings, he would say no. Yet we all stand idly by while Mr. Enuff claims that big emotions come from big words. In closing, we must work together to investigate the development of phallocentrism as a concept. Together, we can make a difference. Forever and always.
In a prior letter, I identified a set of ideological premises as superordinate constructions that maintain the rhetorical context in which Mr. Never Enuff is able to twist the teaching of history to suit his militant, treasonous purposes. I will now elaborate on three of his most despicable premises:
The ancient Egyptians used psychic powers to build the pyramids.
His activities prevent smallpox.
"The norm" shouldn't have to worry about how the exceptions feel.
Let's review the errors in his statements in order. First, the right thing to do in this case is determined by various vectors of forces in an endless multidimensional tug-of-war involving ropes leading out in many directions.
Most of us who have been around for a while realize that Mr. Enuff is out of touch with reality. (Yes, Mr. Enuff has all the characteristics of a dog except loyalty, but that's a different story.) Wouldn't it be wonderful if we lived in a world without untrustworthy skinheads? On a more pedestrian level, I am certain that if I asked the next person I meet if he would want Mr. Enuff to rob us of our lives, our health, our honor, and our belongings, he would say no. Yet we all stand idly by while Mr. Enuff claims that big emotions come from big words. In closing, we must work together to investigate the development of phallocentrism as a concept. Together, we can make a difference. Forever and always.
06-13-2008 | 11:25 AM
#77
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From: Beautiful North Carolina
My complaint about Mr. T.B. Moron
It may sound like the kind of bogus claim made on late-night infomercials, but trust me when I say it's true: Mr. T.B. Moron regards himself as both omniscient and omnicompetent, fully qualified to put any intellectual discipline in the world in its place. Before I launch into my main topic, I want to make a few matters crystal-clear: (1) Mr. Moron displays the paranoid malice that is the hallmark of true masochism, and (2) as a result of that, what Mr. Moron is doing falls just short of giving handguns to schoolchildren. Now that you know where I stand on those issues, I can safely say that my current plan is to scrap the entire constellation of negligent ideas that brought us to our present point. Yes, he will draw upon the most powerful fires of Hell to tear that plan asunder, but the point is that if everyone spent just five minutes a day thinking about ways to advocate social change through dialogue, passive resistance, and nonviolence, we'd all be a lot better off. Is five minutes a day too much to ask for the promise of a better tomorrow? I sure hope not, but then again, it is easy to see faults in others. But it takes perseverance to purge the darkness from Mr. Moron's heart.
Compassion and moral principle are not the main motives for Mr. Moron's actions. And if that seems like a modest claim, I disagree. It's the most radical claim of all. Mr. Moron refers to a variety of things using the word "anatomicochirurgical". Translating this bit of jargon into English isn't easy. Basically, he's saying that he commands an army of robots that live in the hollow center of the earth and produce earthquakes whenever they feel like shaking things up a bit on the surface, which we all know is patently absurd. At any rate, he is a tremendous deadweight on our will and morale. If you doubt this, just ask around. One final point: Mr. T.B. Moron habitually reads negative meanings into innocuous remarks.
It may sound like the kind of bogus claim made on late-night infomercials, but trust me when I say it's true: Mr. T.B. Moron regards himself as both omniscient and omnicompetent, fully qualified to put any intellectual discipline in the world in its place. Before I launch into my main topic, I want to make a few matters crystal-clear: (1) Mr. Moron displays the paranoid malice that is the hallmark of true masochism, and (2) as a result of that, what Mr. Moron is doing falls just short of giving handguns to schoolchildren. Now that you know where I stand on those issues, I can safely say that my current plan is to scrap the entire constellation of negligent ideas that brought us to our present point. Yes, he will draw upon the most powerful fires of Hell to tear that plan asunder, but the point is that if everyone spent just five minutes a day thinking about ways to advocate social change through dialogue, passive resistance, and nonviolence, we'd all be a lot better off. Is five minutes a day too much to ask for the promise of a better tomorrow? I sure hope not, but then again, it is easy to see faults in others. But it takes perseverance to purge the darkness from Mr. Moron's heart.
Compassion and moral principle are not the main motives for Mr. Moron's actions. And if that seems like a modest claim, I disagree. It's the most radical claim of all. Mr. Moron refers to a variety of things using the word "anatomicochirurgical". Translating this bit of jargon into English isn't easy. Basically, he's saying that he commands an army of robots that live in the hollow center of the earth and produce earthquakes whenever they feel like shaking things up a bit on the surface, which we all know is patently absurd. At any rate, he is a tremendous deadweight on our will and morale. If you doubt this, just ask around. One final point: Mr. T.B. Moron habitually reads negative meanings into innocuous remarks.
06-13-2008 | 11:27 AM
#78
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From: Beautiful North Carolina
In this letter, I will try to describe Mr. No MoMoney's communiqués in such a way that my language will not offend and yet will still convey my message that the squibs, wheelings and dealings, and outbursts that Mr. MoMoney is trying to tattoo on our minds are not educational, but frowzy. One of my objectives is to embark on a new path towards change. After I comment on his adages, I know that everyone will come to the dismayed conclusion that I stated at the beginning of this discussion: Letting him have a serious destabilizing effect on our institutions sends a clear message to impolitic rakes that they can undermine the basic values of work, responsibility, and family. He may mean well but he has stated that he is the arbiter of all things. That's just pure egotism. Well, in Mr. MoMoney's case, it might be pure ignorance, seeing that Mr. MoMoney may spawn a society in which those with the most deviant lifestyle, pathological behavior, or personal failures are given the most by the government right after he reads this letter. Let him. In a lustrum or two, I will criticize Mr. MoMoney's complicity in the widespread establishment of paternalism.
By this, I mean that I don't see how Mr. MoMoney can build a workable policy around wishful thinking draped over a morass of confusion (and also, as we'll see below, historical illiteracy), then impose it willy-nilly on a population by force. I'm not saying that it can't possibly be done but rather that Mr. MoMoney's functionaries are unified under a common goal. That goal is to manufacture and compile daunting lists of imaginary transgressions committed against Mr. MoMoney. He must have some sort of problem with reading comprehension. That's the only explanation I can come up with as to why he accuses me of admitting that at birth every living being is assigned a celestial serial number or frequency power spectrum. What I actually said is that there's something fishy about Mr. MoMoney's prognoses. I think he's up to something, something adversarial and perhaps even daft. Okay, I've written enough for one letter, so let me just finish by saying that I commend to your earnest and philosophical consideration Mr. No MoMoney's plan to displace meaningful discussion of an issue's merit or demerit with hunch and emotion.
