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

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August 6, 2009 at 4:14 pm
LiberalGeek
I am more and more convinced that Burris is off his rocker. You may very well be the man that Burris has labeled as Kavips, but I doubt it. I have been in the same room as Kavips on a few occasions, some as intimate as 10 members of the public. I do not remember ever seeing someone unknown at these meetings.
Guessing your identity has been an interesting parlor game for me for several years. I feel like someone has taken my little game and perverted it for their own vindictive purposes.
I have also noted that there are a number of lawsuit threats popping up these days. I wonder how many lawyers back CRI… lol
August 6, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Rent-A-Center
You once lent me your laptop
Is that the computer he got from us back in 2000?
http://denver.state.de.us/COE/cfisHome.nsf/vwElectionData/MCMURRAYW!-00-CAN-YRE-YREND.tif/$File/MCMURRAYW!-00-CAN-YRE-YREND.tif?openelement
August 6, 2009 at 9:43 pm
donviti
What exactly is it called when someone defends someone’s right to anonymity then tries to expose someone trying to remain anonymous?
August 6, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Brian Shields
There’s a Brian Shields who is a weather man for KRON in California, another is a web guru for another tv station.
Two more live in Delaware and have no relation.
Names are not unique.
August 7, 2009 at 5:50 am
donviti
nor is being so full of yourself that you can apply any standard to others that don’t apply to your own folks
August 7, 2009 at 7:43 am
anon
If you’re not that guy, and you’re really concerned about his well-being, why in God’s name would you put his full name in the title of a blog post?
August 7, 2009 at 7:44 am
anon
Plus, I still don’t get why you’re allowed to use people’s names in your writing (in a very negative light), but they’re not allowed to use yours. Can someone explain this to me?
August 7, 2009 at 11:22 am
omagawd
Hey Kevin/Kavips…..
Did you have imaginary friends as a kid?
August 7, 2009 at 11:40 am
LiberalGeek
Hey omagawd – Are the guys at CRI paying you to comment here or are you just doing it as a volunteer?
August 8, 2009 at 10:22 am
Nancy Willing
I would guess that, assuming that WKM is not Kavips and considering what was originally posted by Burris on DP (WKM’s personal and private facebook pages, etc., for instance), Kavip’s putting WKM in the title for the purposes of this rebuttal post was a necessity.
August 8, 2009 at 11:15 am
whatdehell
FYI, Nancy…..the following baloney:
“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. ”
is the equivalent of calling it the Internets, or that it’s really a series of tubes.
I would have more respect for Kevin if he had not blathered on like a dufus on “Kids Say the Darnedest Things.”
If you get outed, wave your junk with pride, no matter how small. Don’t scream “I was in the pool! I was in the pool!”
August 11, 2009 at 8:20 am
Steve Newton
kavips
I don’t care about any of this.
It is time to come back.
Agree or disagree, you are my over-spoken intellectual evil twin. Or maybe I’m the evil twin–you make the call. But nobody else gets my long, navel-gazing posts except you and my friend Waldo, and nobody ever actually stimulates my brain (as opposed to my outrage) as you do.
I want to read kavips blogging about insurance and pharma corps buying off health care. I want kavips to help me keep explaining the reality of why we are in Afghanistan. I want kavips back.
I’m jones-ing, man, and you are one of my main pushers.
August 11, 2009 at 9:07 pm
liberalgeek
I’m with Steve. I need a fix.
August 12, 2009 at 8:37 am
pandora
Count me in as well. Please come back, kavips.
August 12, 2009 at 11:00 am
Nancy Willing
ditto
please, pretty please.
We love you, man.
August 12, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Joanne Christian
Oh c’mon kavips, I can’t leave you in the corner forever. Besides, it’s a new week.
August 12, 2009 at 10:37 pm
person
People are saying, we want to hear from you. In a way, you’re not about you – you are all about the people. Sometimes I’m amazed, where you’re going, because my thoughts have headed there or are at that place, but for various reasons, (maybe hoping things haven’t really come to this, or my lazy self is thinking, this is someone elses’ battle so I don’t work it all the way through like only Kavips does. You come through, time and again. What you write – matters. Mostly Kavips, you just nail it. And you know and we know, you’re speaking of, by, for us. We’re in our rooms, offices, all times of day, as, really, all hell is breaking loose, across the country, all along little old Delaware and you are the good citizen, Delawarean, the good American, the Kavips – we need to hear more from. Thank you.
August 13, 2009 at 12:06 am
jason330
K,
You rock
August 19, 2009 at 10:24 am
Suzanne
So how many signatures will we have to collect to make you come back?
August 19, 2009 at 3:57 pm
LiberalGeek
We just need Russ Larson to give the OK.
August 20, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Brian Shields
Count me in. C’mon back. I know you are out there.
August 23, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Callit
Come on dude…I don’t make many appearances these days but u gotta keep writing!
August 29, 2009 at 10:07 am
Steve Newton
I come here every day; usually at least twice. I will keep coming as long as this site remains active.
August 29, 2009 at 12:40 pm
anonone
You’re going to lose places in people’s bookmarks soon, kavips!