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For those of you who are curious: this is an example of what’s usually in our “moderation” box of comments — those with characteristics that we’ve set to screen out (or that we place there manually if our screen missed them).
This is about two days of the sort of thing that we get in our inbox filter, most recent being first. Let’s start at the bottom.
You’ll notice that two emails came from the same ISP address, with different names and (you’ll have to trust us on this) the same exact email address, the second one purporting to back up the first one — even though they came at the same time. This is known as “sock puppetry” and it will get you banned. If Ryan Vu reads this and wants to claim that someone was setting him up, he can tell us what we’ve cut out of his email address.
The middle one of the five strikes me as bigoted in singling out an expense on Muslims as the reason that OC has hungry children. This sort of scapegoating is sort of repulsive — this money was not otherwise headed to hungry children, and one needed choose between feeding hungry children and giving a lot less honor to a Muslim festival than other religious festivals often get — but it’s unfortunately part of the political culture here so I approved it and hope that others will join me in rebutting it.
The top two, from Saturday morning, are typical of most of what we get. Everything in the “Amnesty International” one — talk about tarnishing a good name! — is false. The one above that warrants no response except that I wish that Oni, Jeff, Paul, and I could confront the person who keeps posting these things together and in person.
This person (or these people) apparently posts frequently in Chumley’s squalid little blog as well — which probably explains his move over the years from demanding the IP addresses of people posting at other blogs (in the “Northwood Night Stalker” days to supposedly being willing to defy any court order to give them up. Well, I have to admit — I wouldn’t want to be associated with these sorts of people either, although not publishing them in the first place seems more reasonable than going to jail to protect them.
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Typical venom from the likes of a Trump like Troll in Irvine.
*We have been targeted…..no doubt.
Its funny that the troll can\t see that his blog has descended into a 90% pile of this type of troll-ism. Nearly no comments debating or carrying on a conversation about policy or anything. Just steady stream of trolls taking pot shots from the sidelines by anonymous pussies to scared to show their faces. Where as if I got something to say I say it under my own name. I know they like to fantasize Im henry but Im not.
Hey! I’m a recognized Jesus Freak? Thank you fake AI person, I have always been clear about my faith and I am glad to know I have not backpedaled on that in public.
Btw–Chumley’s credit card seems to have not gone through this month, godaddy kicked him to the curb?
As I mentioned a couple of days ago (second paragraph), it could have something to do with higher visibility statewide leading to complaints from “friends.”
For the record, we had no knowledge that this was coming, didn’t request it or in any cause it to happen, and hope that the site is back up soon with a new view on life brought about by this near-death experience.
The site is back up and GoDaddy is a few dollars richer.
While I was there, I poked around a bit and noticed this exchange:
Might as well set the record straight, as these anonymous assholes lie just for the fun of lying (and Chumley just goes along with it, in the “great PR professional” tradition.)
1) I paid both my DPOC and CDP dues this year without seeking a hardship waiver. Whoever “told” that anonymous commenter there is ignorant, lying, or both — or rather would be if such a source even existed.
2) My daughter paid her DPOC dues this year. I went the convention with her CDP dues — in the form of a check cut from her account — in my wallet and was prepared to deposit it. Then her proxy turned out to be ineligible, and as I was not part of the Bauman campaign I couldn’t find her another one at the last instant (or thereafter.) Since she wouldn’t need to have paid dues this calendar year at all, I brought the check home to her.
3) She didn’t “shirk her responsibility.” The proxy didn’t understand the difference between an ADEM and a Central Committee appointment; I caught the error in time. As it turns out, I probably could have faked it, but that’s not my style.
4) “Moot,” not “mute.”
5) $170K, of which $98K would have been for my fees over three years of active litigation. The rest to my co-counsel for his two years of it. We still can’t talk about that case for now until certain deadlines pass.
6) Yeah, no hot tub. Bummer.
7) $85.85. A lot more than a GoDaddy renewal, I expect.
8) No, not “all ears.” Wrong body part there.
9) Chumley repeatedly disparages people — or lionizes them — based on their amount of wealth. He’s completely insensitive to hardship — and I’m not talking even primarily about myself here. Trump is President today because of tone-deaf Democrats like him.
I hate this stuff.
I’ve weighed whether to publish it. Believe it or not, it was the brazen sock puppetry that made me decide to go ahead, because it’s a perfect explanation of what not to do. I include the others because I think that sometimes it’s good to let people see reality without coats of varnish on it. (Oh, and when the anonymous cowards(tm) say that “Greg Diamond doesn’t publish criticisms of himself on OJB,” this is generally that kind of think that they’re talking about.)
One behind-the-scenes development that most readers here can’t see is that we’re getting more statewide readership, based on the coverage of the controversy over the CDP Chair’s race. That readership will probably trickle down to Liberal OC, as people decide to check out whether it’s really as disgusting as we claim. So one can expect either some reform over there in that area, if the proprietor listens to wiser heads than his own, or an intensification of the disgustingness. I won’t say here which I expect to occur.
Northwood Night Stalker. The classics never get old.