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You probably don’t remember me.
You once lent me your laptop because mine died in the middle of a transaction and I was in a panic to log out properly of the application…
At that point, a dummy account I keep only for use of this blog, somehow acquired your name. It doesn’t show up on my end, only when I send out email, which I do rarely. It was there for a while before I became aware of its existence.
There are reason why someone would want to know who it was typing under the name kavips. Good reasons from not so good people…
I use that account to send out items I want identified as coming from my personna, kavips. I sent out one to a News Journal reporter on 1/9/07 in response to a public appeal for stories regarding a flu epidemic. I didn’t want my families name involved. My next one was sent out3/27/07 in support of Bluewater Wind to the PSC. You did not send that letter. I did. Some commentators at other blogs, have said that letter sounds like me… It should. It is an exact copy lifted off my blog, and sent. It was one of my best pieces to date.
I believe it was in my search to find that document, that I first became aware that your name was attached to mine. I was shocked. I researched and discovered yahoo was at that time filling in blank names with other information they could gather.. I used the account only two times afterwards. Once to Hube, on 8/6/07 and to Jason on 8/25/07, both people I knew I could trust.
That account still receives, but your name has not been used since… it is still attached, and will not allow itself to be deleted.
You have been outed as me. It is because of a series of circumstances and similarities all deriving from that attachment of our names on one PSC document buried on page 39 of one of hundreds of PDF files…
You are an apparent fan. I see in the outing document that your facebook page has linked to me twice. Usually links show up but nothing from your facebook page has…
Apparently because you linked to me, you are me in these people’s judgements. Your entire profile is on line if you do not know it, including the names of your wife and four children. You should be concerned.
If you don’t know, here is who they think you are.
You are the person who publicised that Halliburton was boycotting the embargo of Iran by selling to them from a shell company Halliburton based in the Caymen Islands. Basically you accused Halliburton of financing Iran who was reportedly sending weapons to blow up America soldiers.
You are the person who blew the story that Iraq was all about oil You provide the public with a map the GAO had taken from Cheney’s desk showing the western deserts of Iraq divided up into parcels and memos from members of the President’s staff stating that unless drastic action was taken, other nations, not US companies, would be getting Iraq’s oil
You are the person who brought to our national attention, Brenner’s insistence that the US get 80% of Iraq oil’s profits, and not the 20% almost all other nations pay out… You also compared the timing, noting that it was only four days from his statement until the first bomb went off killing American soldiers. Up to that point in time, we had been seen as heroes.
You are the person who exposed that Blackwater and other American para military operatives were battling Iraqi Union oil workers who were staging a sit in at a Basra refinery… after the expose, Maliki himself protested and the attack was called off..
You are the person who brought stability to Iran, by arguing effectively that Iran was not a threat, that the threat was to increase oil speculative prices, so well that members of the military themselves, said they would not attack if ordered. You published their word to that effect…
You dogged Delmarva Power at every turn in their attempt to stymie Bluewater Wind from taking off… You took their documents, did the math and science and you exposed them for what they were… literal nonsense… High minded technical words that no one would read.. but you did and you published for all to see how they didn’t even make a lick of sense…
You dogged those members of General Assembly who aligned themselves with Delmarva Power, a company that had just jumped our rates 60%, and were desperately seeking to protect its monopoly status here on the Delmarva peninsula. You did it with facts. You showed that a deal for land based wind power that would be so much cheaper than offshore Delawarean produced electricity. was with a company that hadn’t built the wind farm yet, and was under local pressure not to…
You wisely noted that MAPP lines were needed to lower our electrical costs, and would have to be in place to make offshore wind power viable, even when most of the liberal community was dead set against it.
You put considerable political pressure on Tony Deluca, Thurman Adams, Harris McDowell, and Charlie Copeland, causing their every action to be seen in the light of helping big corporations get wealthier over the plight of hard working people… At one point, Harris McDowell was heard in the General Assembly hall: “why does everyone hate me?” Two words. Arnette McRae. you put some fire there…
You cost Delmarva millions in extra revenue. You cost NRG the generator contract. and on the political scale, you reduced the Republican party to one of little or no credibility. In your defence you supported those Republicans who walked away from using beliefs to run our government, to finding practical solutions that worked. You supported Hastings, Cathcart, and Tyler Nixon.
You exposed for all to see, the pompousness of County Council in the affordable housing flap of lower New Castle County. The tide turned as people began to see the connections between big development and the rubber stamp members of County Council.
You supported Bill Dunn in his attempt to clean things up… Which means, the county is after your ass now…
But most importantly it was you who saw that this nation needed Joe Biden. It was you who was read daily in a downtown office in Chicago, It was you who had the top three blog readings in the DesMoinesRegister on New Years Day, all expounding that our Senator had the better shine. It was you who never wavered, never gave up, never doubted that Biden would be presiding over the Senate this year as Vice President of the United States. It was you who never stopped beating the drum; when all others looked at polls, you looked in your heart.
You did much, much more. Often with humor, often with subliminal messages, and sometimes with a club. You were a force to be reckoned with… and now I fear, those forces are gearing up to reckon with you…
Not to say it was all you. You had an army of help. I can’t name them all but my blogroll will give you a clue…
Again, I’m am so sorry. You can expect the other side to dodge the responsibility of exposing you to this, by saying they are beyond reproach. Therefore I take on the responsibility of having that name buried deep with a pile of trash, come out to connect you to this…
If there is anything I can do, contact me.
For the truth is this:
If it is really you who did all of this in your capacity, if it is really is you who are me, if it really is you who changed the world from the location you are purported to work from, you are a far better person than ever I could be… You really should run for office if you are that good.
I see I’ve run out of time
I’m sad…
A really great post I wrote yesterday was completely ignored… It was the first time I looked at our health care debate and traced the money behind it… Steve has been doing that for a while, and I always glanced over his work on this topic without really reading deeply..
Then I wrote a fluff piece. It started simply because of the alliteration between the words “off-day” and “day-off”.. I looked around for someone who had had an off day, and low and behold, right in my comment section that day, was Mr. Dave Burris. So guess what: Burris and Bueller were so similar, I ran with it.
Here’s how you do it. You tab Ferris Bueller’s day off, and you work off that page. Sometimes one struggles to find a connection, and other times, it is so obvious it jumps..
Now we all know Dave gets bent out of shape…. usually for a few days, and then offers an apology. Because of the disappearance of FSP, Down With Absolutes, and changes at Delaware Liberal, it is hard to post the links of this repetitive behavior. So I will indulge on the memories of those who have, through arguing vociferously with me over several years, become closer than my dearest friends… (They just don’t know what I look like.) They can reminisce over all the times Dave has jumped the gun, then… humbly and lovably, offered up an apology….
Some may think this crass.. To praise a man who is attacking you.. or then, perhaps, crass is not the right word, maybe stupid is…and if so, and if it is right, then I’ll be stupid for a moment. Despite his foibles, I believe in Dave. I think Dave Burris is a good man… Dave is something different. I was just a partial blogger dallying about, pinging smart ass comments over silly things, until I read his greatest post and said “DAMN”. (The post has been deleted, but here is proof it was there which shares my sentiments.) In a way, I’m sorry to have to bring that post up, because I made a deal last November to real voters, that if they supported their previous representative of the 19th district in his attempt to retake that office (I supported his opponent)… then he fully represented his district. As an American, if you fully represent your district… you are alright by me…
We forget that sometimes, and blame that representative for their failure to take our almighty side of positions, especially when he/she is actually doing their job…..which is to do the will of those people who elect him. If they don’t do what their constituents want, and instead choose the opposite tack, then that electorate was cheated out of their fair representation… Democracy is not about right or left… It is about what’s right or wrong…
And that is where we bloggers come in.. We are the bacterial scum of the oceans…or let me borrow a quote that better phrases it:
Ok, that’s extreme. I’m sure my friends on either side the extremes of right and left would object to such a definition of themselves… They have pride…( Me? Pride is something that gets in my way, so I do my best to ignore it) …. But there is an interesting fact about the bacterial scum surviving off the oceans…
Today, we breathe..their 2 billion years of ancient waste product. Oxygen.
Completing my metaphor… we, the bloggers, are where all ideas seem to come from… Why? Because we are not bought out….. yet… That is another post coming… (about supporting Freedom of the Internet)…
Before I move on, blogging is where it is at! For where else can one argue back? Television? Radio? The News Journal? And that’s what sets blogging apart. America was formed in taverns across each of the thirteen colonies. Without the passion of spirits, we might be sounding like Pirates right now… But, … we argued back.
So that is what we do. We take a position and sound it out… Now as astute professional studiers of Delaware’s blogs have pointed out, I came to the CRI debate late… But we’ve been befooseled so many times before by think tanks who, as one example told us that “deficits do not matter”, only to find they weren’t think tanks at all… They were propaganda mouthpieces who had no grasp of facts;… paid in full by those who stood to collect the interest such a deficit would bring them.
But because there was no counter balancing force to say “hey, wait a minute,” we went pell mell into meltdown. Or we came damn close…
This blogger will not let it happen again. Even with all the press at Delaware Liberal, there wasn’t enough oomph out there showing that CRI was heavily connected to the party of failed ideas… Obviously, if forewarned, our collective reading public, (who if I may brag, includes any and everyone out there who IS influential), might this time evaluate their policies appropriately… Does CRI do some good? Some say. Will they do more good under public scrutiny? You had better believe it…
And that’s where I come in… I’m not really left… but that is is the direction to where we need to steer, to counteract the policies we passed over the last 8 years…. Were this the year eighty eight, it would be much more difficult to ping me as leaning left… I choose to lean towards what I think is best for the country at a specific point in time… Knowing me, that will switch with each switch of the pudendum…
Right now, I’ll admit it.. I sound left-ish…. and right now, that’s a good thing….
(And as some who are extremely wordy can see, I intend to keep my humor…) lol
So now, there is an attempt to silence me… That’s fine… It’s been anticipated for years. As a result of one Dave Burris screaming at me for connecting CRI to the party of failed ideas, two of my posts about him have jumped off the charts…. forever immortalizing my former hero, Mr. Burris who alas, chose not give Markel the fight he deserved (a contest of brilliant ideas bouncing off each other),… with words like these:
Go step in front of a train. I could go on, but it’s safe to say that like you, this entire post is a pile of shit. You are a vile, lowlife piece of garbage and you deserve whatever comes to you as a result of this post. Kilroy switched back, douchebag. “It is the lying. And kavips may have proven himself a bigger liar than you guys are. And that’s saying something.”
Now I realize there may be some out there who think such talk IS gubernatorial… and those kind of people tend to keep low profiles on the other side… But if I… were to choose a governor? I would want one who maintained eloquence and provided stability in times of turmoil.. You see? Something like these words would be what I’d expect from someone I once thought as gubernatorial…
Sorry. I find nothing offensive in what you say and therefore cannot muster any madness, insanity, or malice in return…As anyone who actually lived through last year knows, I’ve stated true facts. You’ve offered a rebuttal, a weak one, albeit, but still it’s a rebuttal. Done. let the people judge….
And most of you have.. Most of you have remained silent or have been supportive.. It’s the handful of gleeful few, who tied up all my comments with innuendos and references that make no sense to me yet… Something about a face book page, a past election, PSC, and something called beer pong… And that is fine. It actually works for me.
For with each threat, and ghetto-like blustering, they prove my point to be dead on… We cannot afford to have these types of people leading us.. We cannot afford to be intimidated into accepting their weird grasp of reality… We cannot afford our whistle blowers to be killed off prematurely to prevent truth from becoming known.
So, publish who you think I am… Can’t say you were forewarned that you have a case that is not even based on coincidence… I just hope you talk to whoever it is before you subject them to whatever it is you think you are bringing down on me…
If he (I’m guessing) reads me like you say he does, then I hope he can make sense out of the comments being thrown my way, and can prepare himself for the onslaught….
Like the rest of you in the dark… I’m waiting to see what happens next…
But this post I now write, may be exciting because it’s personal, but really…. is nothing but self-righteous ramblings… The one post you should be reading this week,.. which thanks to Dave Burris received only 1% of my hits yesterday, is this one…
Unlike this post, that one actually makes a difference to the world we share.
One has an off day, the other has a day off.
One really kinda sounds sick, the other just pretends.
One shows off empty houses, the other plays to full ones.
One has misguided principles, the other a misguided principal.
One pops down Boardwalk Fries, the other down pops Cameron Frye.
One sees Ben Stein as a mentor, the other sees him as a tormentor.
One dismisses someone named Peterson, the other impersonates a Peterson to dismiss….
One shouldn’t sink lips into new Dunkin Donuts, the other lip syncs to Newton’s “Danke Shcoen”.
One shouts, then twists, the other does “Twist and Shout”.
One has a sheen of being a heavy Romeo, the other has Sheen playing a light cameo.
One has gray nibbling around his edges, the other has Grey who has a “he” nibbling around her edges…
One as he grays, supports character kicking principles that are loony; the other has this Grey, who thrice karate kicks her principal, character Ed Rooney.
One has qualms about borrowing words to say he’s sorry. The other has no qualms, and drives all day in a borrowed Ferrari.
lol.
The health care industry is one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing industries. Consuming over 10 percent of gross domestic product of most developed nations, health care can form an enormous part of a country’s economy. For United States, the health share of gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to reach 19.6 percent of GDP by 2016.
At today’s under inflated GNP, if this expectation holds true, 19.6% of 2008′s 14.2 Trillion GDP, equals a whopping industry of $2.78 Trillion each year… We are looking at just seven years away…. Seven years? Let’s see.. hmm.. how fast does that time fly by?
It was only 7 years ago we were being fed this:
In such a short time, a person making $50,000 a year, can be expected to pay close to 20% or $10,000 each year for health-care.
Here is what the hoopla is all about.
$2.78 Trillion for an industry vrs. 20% out of pocket costs for every man, woman, and child alive in this nation…
It’s that simple….
Now those of us who constantly deal with conflict resolution in whatever capacity, know the consensus will probably be very close to the middle…
In this case, we are looking at this scenario:
$1.34 Trillion for an industry vrs. 10% out of pocket costs for every man, woman, and child alive in this nation…
That would cost each person $5000. The average spending at the peak of the golden years, 2000, was roughly $4000 dollars. Our costs would realign close to then. If you remember back that far, (seems like another century, doesn’t it) families, individuals, businesses, and insurance companies were all doing well.)
Since then, the medical profession, insurance companies, and hospital conglomerates, have swelled their heads with unreasonable expectations. It’s no wonder; the Bush administration allowed them too.
Despite media attempts to confuse the issue, it’s all about money. Who should have it? Should the medical interests be allowed to siphon off more of our Dollars from out of our pockets? Or should we, the citizens of this nation, be allowed to keep our own money? …
The industry groups have invested heavily to make sure only their views get taken into account. The health care sector gave $167 million in campaign contributions to congressional candidates in the 2008 election cycle, according to the watchdog group OpenSecrets.org. Health care companies poured $484 million into lobbying efforts in 2008, and are on pace to exceed that this year.
For an argument to have merit, it takes two sides. So far, we have heard only the one side with all the money. The other side, those of us that have the money, need to speak up… after all, we are the ones with the money they are after… Our silence, will cause less to be spent on anything but healthcare… Our exclamations, will allow more money to stay in our pockets…
“Today, sound bytes, not sound policy, determine our country’s course…” Paris Hilton.
We can change that, and it starts with our own Senator Tom Carper.
