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So a lot of folks had a lot to say about my last journal entry. For a little bit I was responding to various comments. After a while though I became a whole lot more interested in the types of objections I was seeing. Not refutations, mind. There were zero of those. Not one.
Seriously, not one of the ranty hate nuggets made even the slightest claim that the plan I laid out, if followed conscientiously, would not produce some very decent human beings. Every last one dealt with how others have practiced Christianity throughout the years, told me I didn't understand the source materials, or other utterly irrelevant to the point of the journal entry arguments.
It really amazes me how many people very obviously have a chip the size of Texas on their shoulders about any mention of Christianity or Jesus, to the point that they cannot even study or discuss it without seeing anything but what they want to see. They have pre-judged (literally what the word prejudice means) it as the worst thing ever and will not allow themselves to even understand discussion that does not align with this.
It's sad, really. I hate seeing minds not just closed but closed, locked, the key melted down, welded shut, and guarded by rabid tasmanian devils. If you're unwilling to consider the possibility that you're wrong, you're completely unable to improve yourself. Ever.
HoneyPots: For Everything Else, There's Mastercard.
Most know Free Agents such as myself as "Vigilantes", but I actively discourage the application of "Vigilantes" do those who really _do_ aim to do right by others.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Clark County (Washington) Sheriff's Department as well as the Multnomah County (Oregon) Sheriff's Department _all_ know very well that I _relentlessly_ hunt down Child Pornographers.
To the extent I can come up with one such that is within the reach of at least INTERPOL, I file a _detailed_ report with the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center.
While to the very best of my knowledge my IC3 reports have yet to lead to actual prison sentences, I can claim some success, in that I've gotten two _particularly_ egregious E-COMMERCE - "ADD TO CART" - SITES taken down; that same IC3 complaint led to a _modest_ reduction in CloudFlare's _similarly_ egregious_ caching of Child Sexual Abuse.
I had to laugh just now when searching for a particularly well-known - former - Child Pornographic Actress; she was during her... uh... "career"... even _more_ widely known for her Still Photo work so from time to time I search for some of her such Photos for the most part at Bing Image Search.
(This because Satya Nadella is surely so-egregious himself; that is, if you catch my mother fucking drift.)
And why did I have to so laugh?
This because Bing Image Search quickly turned a quite a low low low price of a particularly hard-to-find... uh... "collectible"... Still Work set, but with the at-first puzzling result that at the actual eCommerce site that TURNS RIGHT UP IN IMAGE SEARCH, that very same Still Work set did _not_ turn up in a great _many_ purely-local searches I tried.
As For Why I'm a Free Agent?
When I find the man who published my own Still Photo work, I'm gonna tear him a new one with the rusty entrenching tool that I keep in my toilet bowl for just such an occasion.
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How to Christian Like a *nix Admin
Right, first off, I'm not a Christian. I was previously and did grow up with plenty of exposure to it though and there's a lot to be said for the source material. So this is an attempt to inform folks how to do it properly if they're going to do it. If done properly it can make for some extremely decent people and a pretty serene life. A lot of people noob that shit up though, so church should be treated as Stack Exchange; advice should be thoroughly examined before taking any of it.
For starters, skip the Old Testament for now. It's a previous major version and there were plenty of refinements and even breaking changes between 1.0 and 2.0. There are also bits that are universally applicable and bits that were only applicable to a specific person at a specific time (you know, like that bash script you whipped up to do something once and then never used again). There's plenty back there that's still useful but you need to be equipped to be able to distinguish it from what isn't and nobody is right off the bat. Reading it now will only confuse you and even send you down entirely the wrong path. That's how you end up with things like Crusades, the Inquisition, pulseaudio, and systemd.
Now there's a hell of a lot of text in even the New Testament but every last bit of it boils down to one of two precepts:
- Love God above all else.
- Love your neighbor as you love yourself.
Got those? Okay, moving on. All the other bits of the New Testament should be treated like /bin/dd. Which is to say, if you don't understand how to use them, do not fucking use them. RTFM until you do. Which is to say, if you can't figure out how any given bit is an example of how to better do one of those two precepts, do not incorporate it into your life until you do or you run a serious risk of fucking shit up beyond belief.
A really good beginner bit is: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. It's dead simple to see how that falls under #2 and pretty easy to tell if you're fucking up on. Granted, until you've had practice implementing it you're mostly going to spot the bugs in hindsight but as you gain experience you'll be able to spot them before you run any code.
Pretty simple, yeah? It's a shame simple ain't the same as easy but that's life for you.
Now when you know your way around the New Testament backwards and forwards, or at least know how to use apropos, whatis, man, and the like to find what you need, by all means go back and read the Old Testament. Keep in mind it's there for historical reasons only. Not human or universal history, mind you, the history of your religion. Actual history ain't the province of religion; teaching you how not to be a shitbird like Lennart Poettering or Bill Gates is. Anything that looks like history should be read as a story and valued only for what it can teach you about how to achieve this. Arguing the facts of something you have no personal knowledge (not faith, knowledge) of is not the way to be anything but a dick.
That's really all there is to it. There's plenty of specific expertise you'll pick up as you go but every last bit of it derives from what you've just read.
<b> BUILD THAT WALL! </b>
MAJOR UPDATE on the Gofundme Wall – THIS IS THE INFO YOU HAVE ASKED FOR
Published
on February 18, 2019
We wanted to give you a full update on where we stand at the moment. It’s been 30 days since we started this project to build the wall ourselves and we have made incredible progress to begin building the wall that will supplement President Trump’s wall. We are very proud to be working with the President and to have his blessing on our project!
Our team has been identifying zones along the Southern Border that are known to be high-traffic areas for illegal crossings and smuggling operations. We are presently working with US Customs and Border Patrol experts and other US Border Security Service professionals who are highly experienced in these matters. We are beginning extensive due diligence and the commencement of feasibility studies and will be engaging leading experts in a variety of fields necessary to construct our Border Wall. These professionals will continue to provide us with critical guidance on the legal, engineering, contracting, environmental, accounting, maintenance, and real estate issues required to build a Wall along the Southern Border. I’ve been getting a lot of questions asked about the project which is why we setup a website FAQ, please visit it after reading this.
We believe we can build segments of the US Southern Border wall for approximately half of what the Federal Government’s currently estimates. We will build the Wall mile-by-mile in strategic locations based on a variety of factors. We will build as much wall as we can based on feasibility, land use, and funding.
Me and our team have been out to Arizona, New Mexico, California and Texas multiple times meeting with landowners and state/local officials, it’s going great and the communities are supporting us! With that said I’m excited to announce that we have identified a minimum of 7 pieces of land in these border states to begin building on, and I am flying to meet with landowners this week to commence our first big land agreement which will allow us to begin the process to build. IT’S HAPPENING!
This process includes many items such as land surveying, applying for permits for construction, and all site impact studies. Typically, this process does not take too long and when its complete we will then be moving dirt and breaking ground with the first ever section of the ‘People’s Wall’… EXCITING!
We are launching our volunteer database in the next day or two on our website www.WeBuildTheWall.us so please check in on that later. Also we are pleased to announce our chairman of We Build The Wall Inc. as Steve Bannon, yes, Steve Bannon who was the mastermind behind Trump being elected. He’s now on our team and will fast track this project
This will go down in history as the people rising up to get the job done when politicians have failed them. We’re going to do this the old fashion way, rolling up our sleeves, getting dirty, and doing work! Showing America the can do attitude that this country needs again.
I’ve learned a lot along this journey, and the one thing these landowners all tell me is that they live in fear 24/7. They also feel neglected by the federal government for failing them for the past 30+ years. Property values have plummeted and crime has skyrocketed in these communities. And this is not acceptable, this is not the country I vowed to protect, this is not how we treat our citizens. It’s time we begin protecting our citizens and standing up to these cartels. Mexico has a nasty cancer, its bad, and its spreading into America. The corruption is already setting in, and that cancer is growing rapidly into the heart of our nation.
You won’t hear this on the Lamestream media:
Former La Joya Police Chief Geovani Hernandez is facing various drug trafficking charges for allegedly helping Mexico’s Gulf Cartel move cocaine and marijuana in order to pay for his campaign to a higher office. Hernandez is still awaiting trial.
Former Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino just finished serving a five-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to having taken money from convicted Mexican drug lord Tomas “El Gallo” Gonzalez in exchange for favors. During the investigation into Treviño’s dealings with Gonzalez, close to 20 Texas law enforcement officials pleaded guilty or were tried and convicted for various corrupt activities dealing with drug trafficking.
Former Cameron County Sheriff Conrado Cantu is serving a 24-year prison sentence for his role in protecting Gulf Cartel members living in his county and their businesses. Cantu helped protect the cartel’s drug trafficking, money laundering, and underground casinos.
‘We The People’ will build the wall!
IMPORTANT NOTE: if you donated BEFORE Jan 11, 2019 you need to opt-in by signing at this gofundme link- click here
https://webuildthewall.news/border-wall-update/
The eyes of Texas are upon you . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csQD4Z_uHL8
Dragon Aurora
Fake Noose
Vox Media Attempts to Wipe Out Embarrassing PC Build Video
Progress at Growing My Snidely Whiplash Moustache
From time to time, as events wend their merry way through the Courts, I'll submit an SN Story Submission that summarizes the plot that has transpired so far as well as links to my detailed chronicles, each such chronicle packed solid with wall-to-wall Civil Procedures that use all their holes. Our Story So Far:
tl;dr:
The C-TRAN Clark County Washington Rapid Transit System used a FIFTY-TWO MILLION DOLLAR local sales tax increase to retain a firm of uncommonly sadistic banshees to build these quite cool Avant-Garde Installation pieces that I remain flummoxed are denoted as "Bus Stop Shelters".
Flummoxed because The Vine's alleged "shelters" do not protect either the waiting passengers, nor the benches within in _any_ way.
Redoubling my sorrow, is that as each Vine Avant-Garge Installation piece was... installed... the old, quite pleasant, inclement weather-protective though rather prosaic True Shelters was destroyed.
In this evenings mail, I received a Tort Claims Form from a Mr. Cedric Adams, Claims Manager for the Washington State Transit Insurance Pool. My _polite_, _respectful_ as well as I'ma Gonna Tear Ya A New Asshole reply:
Mr. Adams,
Thank you for sending me C-TRAN's Claim Form.
Note that I've CCed my Legal Advisor Rod Schmidt; when you mail me yourself, please CC Rod as well.
While I will fill it out and submit it tomorrow (Wednesday), I really don't see a way for C-TRAN to remediate the ultimate cause of the cruelty C-TRAN's Vine Bus Operator other than to either redesign, or perhaps to replace _each_ of the bus stop shelters for The Vine route.
This because those "shelters" do not, in _any_ way, shelter the benches from the wind, rain and snow. Nor do the protect either those sitting on the bench or those standing from the cold, wet winds which are so common in Vancouver during the Fall, Winter or Spring.
What led me to be so profoundly overcome with grief was the great pain I experienced due to having been forced to stand during most of the forty-five minutes I awaited The Vine's arrival on this last Saturday morning, February 9th. That grief was compounded by the knowledge that I _voted_ for the local sales tax increase that at the time of the election was intended to raise fifty-two million dollars for the construction of the Fourth Plain Rapid Transit Corridor.
Despite C-TRAN quite admirably sparing no expense nor effort to provide - in the parlance of the Americans With Disabilities Act - "Reasonable Accommodation" for those who cannot walk and so require wheelchairs, no such Accommodation was provided for those who do not use wheelchairs, but for whom walking or standing are excruciatingly painful and difficult.
For that reason, my monetary claim on our form will be a largely arbitrary, quite large amount, with the expectation that my claim will be denied. I will then proceed with my Civil Complaint through the Clark County Superior Court.
I shall do so with the expectation that C-TRAN's attorney and I - with the assistance and advice of Mr. Rod Schmidt - will negotiate a settlement which stipulates that _each_ Vine Stop Shelter be protected from the elements.
Enclosed please find a photo of one of the two snow-covered benches at the 12th and Broadway Vine Stop. I shot that with my phone upon my arrival on the C-TRAN #60 Delta Park Regional Bus.
Warmest Regards,
Michael D. Crawford
Indeed I did request my 9-1-1 call's audio file, but it's going to take CRESA (not "CRESPA"), the Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency, ten to fourteen days to get it to me.
I await my Emergency Call's arrival with bated breath, as I _begged_ CRESA's Dispatcher to deliver unto me a VPD Officer who would not arrest my Evil and Cruel Bus Driver, but _reason_ with him so that he would stop insisting I get off his bus. That would have condemned me to another forty-five minutes of standing, with _great_ pain, in the snow for the next bus.
The Mind Simply Reels
Don't say A*PAC
There Is a Taboo Against Criticizing AIPAC — and Ilhan Omar Just Destroyed It
American Israel Public Affairs Committee
But AYYPAC doesn't donate to candidates!
