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Posted on 03/15/2013 10:16:41 AM PDT by Cajun Jihad

Edited on 03/15/2013 10:18:18 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Greetings fellow patriots! Houston we have a problem! A big one. I'm located in South Louisina 337. On February 28 a white SUV pulled up to the house with red DHS lettering with Texas plates. (Texas WTH i thought y'all were with us) I saw them pull in the drive an met them outside at their truck 2 agents late 40s-50s. They say Hi we are here doing a survey. One agent pulls out 3 volumes (looked like phone books almost sizewise) He ruffles through the pages in first then second volume. He finds my list (The 1 that they don't have). he says so we are doing a survey and we are going around visiting everyone and trying to verify if you own or still have these firearms. He proceeds to show me my list. Every gun i bought from a dealer is on this list. Every one from 22s to Mosin Nagants and everything in between. I was blown away and still am. Many bricks have been shat since then! I told them nah i don't have any of those dangerous baby killers gave them all away after Newtown. They left but sat parked down the road for a couple hours. Probably coordinating drone strike. I have ony told a couple of close friends i trust. I've been tryng to keep it together. The first person i told also had a visit exactly 2 weeks before me. He ordered a questionable part off the net an that's what the agents told him they were after. He lives 5 minutes down the road. I was freaked then but I didn't think anything of it you know he brought it on himself. Until i got a visit. All my stuff is legal and above board. No worries on that part. But then why did i recieve a visit? I don't know i've been gripped with fear since. Keeping watch on my porch, almost sleeping outside some nights. And then yesterday my wife's friends parents who are an hour north of us got a visit. Only the mom was home and she told them to hit the street. These people are farmers and have guns but mostly Fudd guns and relics passed down. The father was going somewhere on business this weekend and next week. He cancelled. Even the Fudds aren't safe from this. My only solace in all of this is the 3 massive volumes the jackboots had. I know i'm not the only one. I don't know what to do?! It took this long for me to tell somebody else. My wife and i are scared [crap]less!I'm not sure if they are testing the waters seeing who will comply. Or if it's something else entirely. Why down here? Why not in Commiefornia or one of these other liberal dreamlands? I thougt we were good we just voted to strengthen the 2nd in our state. i just keep saying in my head. WTF?


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To: null and void
Went back to the Mesta prayer thread. Having a hard time with today. Tears flowing.
1,601 posted on 03/24/2013 8:51:04 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Old Sarge; null and void

I think the last meltdown was after her husband died. The timing is about right. I don’t she had the strength to pull out of it, in spite of everyone’s efforts.

She was so happy with him, and even had plans to come to see me from New York, where they were living.

*sigh*

Ditto on the Just Damn.


1,602 posted on 03/24/2013 8:55:52 AM PDT by Monkey Face (In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. ~ Ben Franklin)
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To: null and void

Her facebook page is still open if you want to post. She looked really bad the week before she did. Way too sad.


1,603 posted on 03/24/2013 8:57:20 AM PDT by Monkey Face (In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. ~ Ben Franklin)
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To: Monkey Face

Was her death at her own hand?


1,604 posted on 03/24/2013 9:02:10 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
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To: Lazamataz

Yes, sadly. I don’t know the details, but there were several times when I was able to talk her through the worst of her depression, but I wasn’t even “there” for her this time around.


1,605 posted on 03/24/2013 9:07:52 AM PDT by Monkey Face (In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. ~ Ben Franklin)
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To: Monkey Face

Don’t blame yourself. There ain’t enough ‘There’ you can be for the truly suicidal. There was a freeper a long time back, first name Chris, who did this. Tortured soul. Young, too.


1,606 posted on 03/24/2013 9:11:30 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
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To: Lazamataz; Monkey Face

Irony is so ironic.

Chris was her husband.


1,607 posted on 03/24/2013 9:48:58 AM PDT by NicknamedBob (Going viral -- Put your faith in your Church, and your doubt in your Government's "Good Works".)
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To: NicknamedBob

Dayum. Depressed people should not hook up.


1,608 posted on 03/24/2013 10:14:40 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
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To: NicknamedBob; Lazamataz

Bites, for sure.

I hate days like this.


1,609 posted on 03/24/2013 10:17:02 AM PDT by Monkey Face (In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. ~ Ben Franklin)
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To: Lazamataz

You are correct in that. His loss was just devastating for her.

We had hopes that she had worked her way out of it.

This little cave we live in, with its layers of desiccated memories, and occasional bright views to an unreachable outside, can be a lonely place.


1,610 posted on 03/24/2013 10:22:53 AM PDT by NicknamedBob (Going viral -- Put your faith in your Church, and your doubt in your Government's "Good Works".)
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To: no-to-illegals; sionnsar; LibreOuMort; Darksheare; null and void; NicknamedBob; JoeProBono; ...

Thank you for the heads up, no-to-illegals. I got pinged more than once to the thread, and I pinged about 100 FReepers from my lists as well. Thank you for pinging the UT list, too. I didn’t double up on that one.

People may not know, but MestaMachine is a Jew, but I’m sure she will not be upset by “God” rather than “G-d,” or people mentioning Jesus.

Now is a good time to let her know how much her tireless work is appreciated by all of us as well.


1,611 posted on 03/24/2013 10:24:18 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady

Amen ... twenty thousand Amens TOL.


1,612 posted on 03/24/2013 10:25:42 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: TheOldLady; sionnsar; abigailsmybaby; A CA Guy; airborne; Aloysius88; Altariel; Americanwolf; ...

I’ve also been made aware that Tiamat isn’t doing well.
Multiple organ failure, and docs say prognosis isn’t good.
[Understatement of the year.]


1,613 posted on 03/24/2013 10:44:05 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: Darksheare

This day is growing worse by the minute. Didn’t start out well at all.


1,614 posted on 03/24/2013 10:55:08 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: TheOldLady; Monkey Face; no-to-illegals; sionnsar; LibreOuMort; Darksheare; null and void; ...
With permission:

Kingprout

Quote:
AERE PERENNIUS

"I have built a monument more enduring than bronze... I will not utterly perish - a great part of me shall slip Death's grasp..."
- Horace, Odes, Bk III:XXX

While driving with my ex (and still beloved) to supper, we were discussing the development of internet friendships and the ways this has changed the notion of interpersonal relationships.

The subject grew out of the fact that a very dear friend of mine is at death's door... that I have known her for over a decade... yet have never met her or known her real given name. Our interaction has been entirely online, in the form of text conversations: Yet a friend I name her, and a friend she is.

Our discussion in the car led me to propose that the internet has not brought a novelty into the world, but has instead revived (and accelerated) what once was common practice among widely-removed literate people, before the advent of the telephone and mechanical transport: Interaction by correspondence.

In times past, when distance had greater meaning, people of like mind carried on quite interesting, intense, intimate, lasting, and complete relations by the written word.

So much so that compilations of such correspondence forms its own literary genre, and novels were written in the very form of serial epistles. Even the Journal or Diary can be considered a series of Letters to Posterity, and had much the same form and content.

The advent of the telephone and automobile all but ended the Art of the Letter. Both offered an immediacy of spoken-word interaction the mailed letter could not provide, and both were relatively easy. Ease and immediate gratification have ever been a potent drug. Letter- and Journal-writing fell into disuse.

The personal computer, the internet with its chat-rooms, blogs, message-boards, email, and even text-messaging devices, these novel tools have revived the ancient practices. They remove most of the inherent labor of writing, and the material cost.

They also offer an immediacy of interaction the mailed letter cannot, in combination with the option of delayed attention and reply that telephones or in-person interaction cannot allow.


What was old is new again.
As I often do, I have been mulling this idea since.

It struck me this morning, when I read the latest update concerning my dying friend, that the written word is greatly different from speech. Spoken words are ephemera - things of the moment, largely unskilled in practice, easily misunderstood, often misremembered, and frequently soon lost past recall.

The written word, depending on the skill of the writer, can be crafted much more deliberately, constructed much more precisely, remains unchanged for easy reference, and -if published- has the potential to last through the ages. The written word is by its nature a record, a monument of and to the writer.


I suppose it is to be expected (though remaining sad) that the overwhelming majority of the monuments of the Internet Age are composed of dung rather than bronze, bear closer kinship to crude graffiti than to the artful elegance of preserved letters from prior times.

It is why one simply does not equip baboons with grenades: They will get used, and badly. Grant everyone the undying written word, combined with an ease and immediacy like unto speech, most will use it as carelessly and crudely as they do the noises they emit from one or another gastroenteric aperture.

It is, I suppose, inevitable... yet a pity so very many shape such a shabby immortality.


Nevertheless, among the ruck of duck-faced idiocy and plastic flamingos, one can find palaces. Conversations spanning years, built of and by the worthy writings of many correspondents, threads of pure gold. Friendships as deep as the skies. Families of mind and heart, woven by (and of) people who have never met in the flesh. Monuments that dwarf the Pyramids. Monuments that would beggar kings.

Monuments worthy of immortality.

These exist, and I have walked in their gardens.


I like to think I have contributed to a few such monuments. Over the fifteen years I have been online, I have published uncounted tens of thousands of thoughts, and some small portion of these have been, in my opinion, quite delightfully excellent.

I have, now and then, entertained the notion of combing the internet and harvesting what I consider my best works, to collect them in a form of compendium, a monument of my own building.

However excellent some of my tracts and scribblings may have been, I cannot claim to have done more than addition to the works of others. I have, here and there, added an embellishment or pilaster, shored up a wall with a structural brace, added a door or a room, at my best have cut a window onto a new buena vista... but I have never been the architect, nor laid the foundations, nor have I taken a merely habitable space and turned it into a home.

Here, if I may, I will indulge in Encomion.
She who is now passing, who at the time I write these words may well already belong to the ages, did the latter-most, above, as a matter of course. She ran the kitchen, moderated the great hall, set out the welcome mat (with beer and cookies), and tended to hearth... and hearts. If ever I compile my works, some of the conversations included therein will be with her.

If ever I publish this collection, the dedication page will be very densely packed - the list of those I must thank for their friendship and guidance is longer than I could have expected (and have ever before really appreciated) and grows ever longer... but I know now how it will end:

"...and for Tiamat"

1,615 posted on 03/24/2013 10:57:30 AM PDT by NicknamedBob (Going viral -- Put your faith in your Church, and your doubt in your Government's "Good Works".)
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To: no-to-illegals

Just the way the die rolled this time.


1,616 posted on 03/24/2013 10:58:23 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: NicknamedBob

Thank you Bob. More tears in me eyes.


1,617 posted on 03/24/2013 11:04:57 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Darksheare

Know you to be correct Dark. Wishes on the dice.


1,618 posted on 03/24/2013 11:05:47 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: NicknamedBob

Bleak day.


1,619 posted on 03/24/2013 11:16:33 AM PDT by Silentgypsy (I must be all here, because everyone keeps telling me I'm not all there.)
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To: TheOldLady

Prayers for MestaMachine. Thanks for the heads up.


1,620 posted on 03/24/2013 11:17:52 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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