Random Sunday Night blatherings.....

 - HOW'D THE FUCK this guy pass a New York State pistol permit test??


From what I understand (haf never had a need to have a gun and I don't ever see a need during MY lifetime - so I'm not 100% certain HOW these things work), you must have TWO VALID character references (I *THINK* ONE of them must be in Law Enforcement) and a JUDGE HIM-OR-HERSELF must sign off on the pistol permit to validate it!

It's sad - I do remember the days that mental illness was mocked and belittled and ridiculed, and I genuinely hope that this guy gets the help that he needs, but I really don't know if it serves any rational purpose to leave this man out there on the radio talking about how trees in his backyard actually were people send by Andrew Cuomo to spy on him and that certain agencies are using holographic technology to follow him and deceive him.

I'm not at all sure where this retired police office and this engineer guy came from or what their stories are, but it is getting to the point where Tom Bauerle's behavior is making Dale Gribble look like he's making sense by comparison.

Seriously, Entercomm - stop embarrassing the guy......take him off the air for a while and get him the help that he needs......

But, still - tha'd be a great name for a punk band - "Tom Bauerle's Back Yard"


- Interesting HOW deep I hadta dig for this......
NBCnews.com had nothing at all ANYWHERE on the water protector protests in North Dakota, and I really had to dig around CNN.com for this piece - and it more so draws contrasts with The Bundys (Cliven and Ammon - NOT Peg and Al) and their armed takeover of a small Government building on a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Bird Sanctuary as opposed to going into the root causes of the protests near the Sioux Standing Rock Reservation and some of the bizarre developments (like trying to arrest and persecute Any-Fucking-Goodman of "Democracy NOW!!") of this situation.

OK.....fine!  Soooo, what WAS on the first page of major news websites today?

Well, let's see:  NBC had one lone supporter shouting - "JEW-S-A" towards the press pool assembly area at a Drumpf rally in Aridzona and CNN ALSO had this and, as an added bonus, a story about a Seattle Seahawks NFL football player who got a penalty today for hugging a referee on THEIR front page

.......SPEAKING of the NFL......

- ......a strange thing happened on the way to the end zone.....


More later......

-E-

Wanted to touch on this piece briefly -

Sverge.....

Now, I have several Swedish friends, and one of thee few things I regret about leaving the Facebook (and there are a few good things.....but of the few things that are bad about it....well...they are really bad.....but thass fer next post) is that I really wanna hear what they say about this.

ARROGANT? Really..........?

My feelings??

I love Sweden!  The home of Volvo, IKEA, rampant income equality, and so much more!!   But, i'm a bit depressed about their behavior recently and I think it's time we had an intervention on Sweden...

I mean - da fuck's THIS shit???  Really??  Calling Bob-fucking-Dylan's actions "arrogant"??  

Well....let's look at the actions of the Swedish Nobel board and of the Swedish Government in general.....

• Awarded Barrack Obama the Peace Prize, based upon the criteria that he was NOT George W. Bush.  Now, Bushie started war in two different nations based upon lies, and was generally a dick, but what of Barry's drone attacks that have killed countless of CIVILIANS in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen???

• Put pressure on Cambodia to arrest the co-founder of The Pirate Bay website (the Swedes themselves were under intense pressure from both, the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America - two of thee shittiest groups of individuals that have walked this Earth).  Shortly after Cambodian police arrest and quickly extradite the Pirate Bay co-founder back to Sweden, Cambodia mysteriously receives an extremely generous aid package from Sweden!!

• The Swedish Government faces allegations that they themselves planted the two women now accusing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange of rape whilst, again, under intense pressure from the United States.  Our other long-time toadie, the U.K., DID have him, but accidentally let him slide into the Ecuadorian embassy!!

There are a few other upsetting things, but I think that you get the point.  People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones....

SO WHAT happened?


.......well, as stated - I got booted from The Facebook.


Yeah, The Facebook has this stupid-ass thing where they boot you off if you use a pseudonym instead of your real name.  Well, I was fine for a while, and I GUESS (most likely this is what happened) that I sent a friend request to somebody who had no clue WHO Kaptin Sinnindebauchery IS in reality, so they thought that it was a spam attempt and reported it.  Facebook messaged me and told me that I had to use my real name.  


I refuse to use my real name on there because:

A)- There are individuals whom I either do not wish to see and/or I'd prefer that they not know where I am.

B ) - I owes, like, ten trillion dollars in student loans......and one of the ways these assholes track you is by looking your real name up on social media!!!  

C)- It's always good to not let current or prospective employers have the ability to look up what you're doing in your life. 

D) - Most importantly, WHAT THE FUCK do THEY need all elements of my identity for??  There really is NO reason that The Facebook needs this information!! 

So, I came up with a totally funny horseshit story about how I there are individuals who would do great harm to my family and myself should they be able to identify and locate me on social media.  They assigned a customer service rep named "Riley" to me and he messaged me back and didn't budge and stated that the rules is the rules and, no, they won't let me use something like my first name and last name initial only.  I THEN gave them links to two different articles talking about how Facebook had publicly stated that they were changing their pseudonym policy because of bullying issues and to protect gay and lesbian and trans-gendered people from bullying and job discrimination and other SPECIAL SITUATIONS!! 

I quoted this to "Riley" and stated - 

"Riley,

Could you please respond "yes" or "no" (or, respectfully, bring on a manager who is authorised to answer) to the two statements below?

1) - So what you are stating is that the Verge article ( www.theverge.com/2015/12/15/10215936/facebook-real-name-policy-changes-appeal-process ) IS NOT accurate and that there HAS NOT BEEN A CHANGE to The Facebook's real name policy?

2) - According to WIKIPEDIA, they state, regarding the name policy of The Facebook: "The site is developing a protocol that will allow members to provide specifics as to their "special circumstance" or "unique situation" with a request to use pseudonyms, subject to verification of their true identities. At that time, this was already being tested in the U.S. Product manager Todd Gage and vice president of global operations Justin Osofsky also promised a new method for reducing the number of members who must go through ID verification while ensuring the safety of others on Facebook." 

IS THIS FACTUAL? Obviously, I have explained SEVERAL TIMES REPEATEDLY to you, Riley, that I DO have a special, unique, and potentially dangerous situation. IF this Wikipedia article IS correct, then WHY are you not allowing me to safely go by a pseudonym????

Riley, CAN you respond YES or NO to the above two statements? After that, we'll discuss how I wish to proceed regarding my account.

Many thanks!"

*click* 

They cut me off and killed my profile.....I think the fact that I pointed out that hypocrisy to them really pissed them off!! 

It really doesn't bother me that much at all.  Facebook and Twitter are pretty much killing legitimate conversation and writing creativity and are incredible time-vampires......my available time to do OTHER stuff has increased exponentially, so i'm not crying in my beer over this.  

I had dumped it totally in October 2015, then my wife said that people were contacting her repeatedly asking about me.....so to spare her the headache, I simply created a new account. 

Sucks that they booted me, but hey.....my free time has gone up exponentially.

Well, I HAD to contact somebody on there regarding a matter and this individual NEVER looked at their E-Mail (many people don't anymore), so I had no choice.

After getting to their acceptable edit screen, I made an addition of a middle name to my account and -*VOLIA* - I was back on and got ahold of the person!

Still, outside of the occasional posting of pics of the kids, I cannot really see myself living on The Facebook as I had in the past.....really seems to bring out an ugly side in people (occasionally, myself included).

So here I am......

-E-


NEXT UP:  'Murica's little bitch!!

IT'S TIME THAT I GIT BACK TO WRITIN'..........

Time to revive the blog from the dead......



- 'bout ta git booted from The Facebook (second time in the past year) for the heinous crime of utilizing an alias whilst posting on there.  I'll 'splane in detail in the next post.

NOT a bad thing, actually, as The Facebook is a colossal time-vampire anyways.....and I'd rather spit out a few paragraffs here after multiple pints then shoot out one-sentence comments on people's posts and copy and share memes that haf been retreaded over-and-fucking-over again, so, here I am:  Deal wiff it!

-E-