On that note, Chaney found some nice art:


But really, to be fair: obviously the ideology is so important that it attracts literally hundreds of participants who uproot their lives to show up for a couple of days, as opposed to that easily dismissed ideology of equity and equality that attracts a mere 80,000.

"Please name to me a single tribe in the last 500 years that became better off after contact. There is none!"

 As most of you know, The Olympian webmaster "banned" me for being "abusive to other readers".  The beauty of it all is that truth will always prevail.

As those who have witnessed my true nature, I'm not abusive, but will defend my principles and view, sometimes with sarcastic wit, not necessarily appreciated by all.

There is more to the story than just Larry being "banned" and I'm now comfortable enough to share it.  After the "banning", Larry was told to use the "report" feature when he found something that offended him in The Olympia comments.  I did so, to the tune of 20 times (I've been told, I really didn't keep track) in the following week.  This resulted in a scathing email from the Publisher, accusing me of all sorts of mean, nasty, ugly thingies (I hope others recall Alice's Restaurant, otherwise that last line won't be understood).  I will say, although I disagreed with the "banning" (I felt I did nothing worse than many that post daily) and that I HAD a respect for the Publisher, I took the time to email him (and the webmaster) to apologize for my part of our disagreement (I'm 50% of all my problems) and yet, maintained that we needed to "agree to disagree".  I did not ask for special consideration nor to have my commenting service restored.  I respect their right to do business with whom they choose.

It gets interesting. 

Subsequently, The Olympian withdrew support for a children's community service non-profit, because of their anger with me (where I work).  Now, it wasn't a huge chunk of money, and frankly this service can easily survive without the newspaper's support, but it told me a mountain of truth about their real motives in the marketplace.

The final chapter in this comedy, was finding the Publisher's support for a satirist in Tallahassee's paper (he was formerly the editor) where 1,000s of Muslim readers were offended by the cartoon, yet, he editorialized against Cal Thomas in The Olympian for accusing journalists of a "left bias".  It seems that the only one that can offend or be offended is the Newspaper of Record.

Both sides of the mouth?  You betcha, Sven!

Let's keep doing what we do, here in blogland and don't let the secret restrict our ability to get the message to the people.  I know that some of the populace will be less than tasteful in their blogs, but allow the truth to present itself.

"There is only one race, the human race" - The Neville Brothers