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Last year my parents moved to America, got jobs (interesting ones too), didn't really like LA (too much driving), and moved back home to Ireland. I drew this cartoon as their going away present. Thought you might like it. |
2005 December 26, Monday
More hate-mail, from some-one who may or may not be "Robert Smith". It's remarkable how similarly these guys write; if they are different entities then they must come from the same pod. If you're new to this, scroll down to the entry from the 21st and work your way up:
| Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 23:20:55 -0800 (PST) From: n/a n/a xe419@yahoo.com To: dermot I gotta tell ya, I've never seen someone go on about them selves like you do on your web site. this guy must have really got your goat(no pun intended...well maybe). btw: are you an american citizen? p.s.btw: killing someone just b/c they are a moron is wrong. I think all you need is a good azz woopin' |
Let's see if I can get him riled up with my reply:
| Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 23:47:36 -0800 From: Dermot To: n/a n/a xe419@yahoo.com That's just great. "Another" genius using a yahoo account. > I gotta tell ya, I've never seen someone go on about them selves like you do on your web site. The operative words in this sentence are "YOUR WEB SITE." - it's my web site, and I'll do with it what I like. Did I force you to visit it? Nope. > this guy must have > really got your goat(no pun intended...well maybe). This guy threatened to kill me (and anyone else within the blast radius of his hypothetical bomb. Amurca: land of the free, home of the depraved. > btw: are you an american citizen? No. Have you read my web site? Incidentally, I'll leave your country when your country stops landing warplanes in my country (violating Ireland's constitutional neutrality). You can shit all over your constitution for all I care; just leave MY constitution the fuck alone. It's crappy enough as it is, we don't need help from you guys to make it any worse. > p.s.btw: killing someone just b/c they are > a moron is wrong. I think all you need is a good azz woopin' Ah yes, the now familiar Amurcan recourse to violence - how cute! - you replace murder with assault. Clearly you're an improvement - just not a very big one. The same applies to you as to Robert: come out from behind your yahoo account, give me your real name and address, and I'll send you my real address. You can try out your threats to my face. Please send your reply from a .mil email account - I'm keen to find out which branch of the armed services you're in, my "patriotic" friend. Yours in Christ, Dermot O' Connor (my real name, as opposed to "n/a n/a xe419". Did it take you long to think up that shell? |
As you can imagine, the lad starts to lose it:
| Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 00:22:00 -0800 (PST) From: n/a n/a xe419@yahoo.com To: dermot I never said I was in the armed service. did I you just assume. wtf kind of email address should I have? you're right it's your website. so. better landing planes than bombing the shit out of it. not like lil' ole' irland could defend itself against a highschool ROTC. I'll give you my address. but what guarntee do I have you won't paste it allover "youe lil' website'? none. and you call yourself "brave" or wahtever for posting what I assume is an unlisted name and a pics of your puny, pale out of shape friend. I'll tell you whay I'll do. I'll tell you waht airport to fly in and I'll meet you there and kick your candy irsish ass all the way back home. unless you're scared. I think you're scared. just use some clever remark to hide that you have no spine. even if I was in the military(which I am going into after college.) I don't think my commanding officers would apprecaite giving my military.com to a little bitch like yourself. J**** H***. Athens, Georgia. come get some coward! I'm sure you won't! |
Wow. These people need to be de-programmed, just like the poor kids in the Hitler Youth after WW2. If Peak Oil does hit and initiate a Second Great Depression, chaps like this will be the Brownshirts of the future.
> I never said I was in the armed service. did I you just assume.I assumed that you weren't in the armed service; I assumed that you're YET ANOTHER gutless chickenhawk. If you're tough enough to threaten me, you're tough enough to join the military and not hide behind a yahoo email account (which you're STILL doing, btw).
> wtf kind of email address should I have?
> better landing planes than bombing the shit out of it.Once again, ANOTHER threat of violence, this time against my country.
> not like lil' ole' irland could defend itself against a highschool ROTC.Followed by race hatred. Good. I feel your anger O'Reilly has taught you well. Funny, we defended ourselves against the British Empire in 1922 - then the strongest military on the planet. 200 provisional IRA terrorists/soldiers/whatever were enough to bring the UK to the negotiating table in the 1990s. Imagine what those 20,000+ Iraqi insurgents/terrorists/freedom-fighters can do. No wonder you and your ilk are out of uniform.
> I'll give you my address. but what guarntee do I haveAnd because you threatened me with physical violence, what "guarntee" do I have that you won't carry out your threat? I don't have your real address. You could find mine in 30 seconds if you had the wit.
> you won't paste it allover "youe lil' website'? none.
> and you call yourself "brave" or wahtever for posting what I assumeYou put "brave" in quotes, implying that I used the word. I didn't. I don't see any
> is an unlisted name and a pics of your puny, pale out of shape friend.
pics of you; just an anonymous yahoo email account that could have been set up in seconds.
> I'll tell you whay I'll do. I'll tell you waht airport to fly in andSweetcheeks, re-read my email to you. I never threatened you. I was giving you a chance to speak to me face to face, man to MAN, without hiding behind a QWERTY keyboard. My exact quote was:
> I'll meet you there and kick your candy irsish ass all the way back home.
> unless you're scared. I think you're scared. just use some clever
> remark to hide that you have no spine.
> "You can try out your threats to my face."And once again, your reaction is to threaten physical violence (I'm Irish, not irsish, incidentally). You started this. You emailed me with your unsolicited hate mail. YOU get to fly in to Los Angeles airport. It's really nice this time of year.
> even if I was in the military(which I am going into after college.) I don'tYou're going into the military "after college"????????? AFTER COLLEGE????????? Hang on there sonny boy, hang on - you're telling me - seriously - YOU'RE TELLING ME that you're going into the military ...
> think my commanding officers would apprecaite giving my military.com to a
> little bitch like yourself.
Seriously dude - WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING???
Why don't you enter NOW, when the war is on? So you're going to do what, spend FIVE YEARS in college drinking beer with your frat-brothers, THEN join up? There's a chance that the war will be done by then. If you had half the spunk and vinegar you claim to have, I imagine you'd be chomping at the bit to kill the 'ragheads' now, not at some indeterminate time in the future.
If more people had been like you during WW2, the nazis would have won. I encourage you to join up NOW, your country needs you:
He gives his name as:
> J**** H***. Athens, Georgia.I blotted out his name in asterisks. He could have given his address as "Mickey Mouse, South Carolina" for all that means, coming from a web-based email service. This name means nothing. Of course, as long as you persist in using a yahoo email account, rather than a real one, you remain what your are: a shadow of a man.
> come get some coward! I'm sure you won't!Here I sit, with a public web-site, a real email address, my photo and street address available for anyone to find, and I'm accused of cowardice by some twit with a yahoo email account who thinks he's being patriotic for threatening me, then providing me with a "real" name, emailed from a yahoo account! Welcome to crazy Fox-news bizarro world, ladies and gentlemen.
Regarding his desire to get into college, here's a list of spelling errors in his 188-word email:
01 irland = irelandThat's a spelling error rate of 1 word per 18. I'm no linguistic superman, but I don't even want to start listing his grammatical errors. I hope the college he's applying to accepts application forms written in crayon. I can't wait to see the rejection letter:
02 guarntee = guarantee
03 youe = you
04 wahtever = whatever
05 a pics = a pic
06 whay = what
07 waht = what
08 irsish = irish
09 apprecaite = appreciate
10 allover = all over
"Dear J****,
We apprecaite your interest in our college, however, youe should know that I am from Irland, and I don't like waht youe say about the irsish. I guarntee that wahtever happens, youe won't get into our college; your academic future is allover. Whay.
Yours,
Some Librul Professor Fagot.
2005 December 23, Friday
"Enjoy getting fucked by a goat you little irish queer"
Robert Smith, Amurcan patriot.
The death threat guy is on a roll! It's a bit like talking to Homer Simpson, minus the intellect and charm. If you're new to this, scroll down to the post from two days ago and work your way up!
I've noticed how loonies "spike" around holidays. They're mostly friendless and lonely. These kinds of emails are a coping mechanism for deeply sad and troubled people. I suppose I should be tolerant and forgiving, but I'm not. They've got free will, and only have themselves to blame for their ruined lives. To hell with the lot of them. Happy holidays Robert, for what it's worth.
| Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:16:09 -0800 (PST) From: "Robert Smith" fohammer7@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: you are a liberal pussy To: "Dermot" just like I said you would you posted my email on your littl web site. I wouldn't call you a "public figure: as much as your ego needs it. whitepages.com and don't say "this is why we're losing to the iraqs" cause YOU are not there and WE are not losing as much as you would like to believe. post this on you little web page and make a nifty comment because you're soo good at it. you infantile ego maniac.Enjoy getting fucked by a goat you little irish queer |
This nutter thinks he's found me on the White pages - instead he's reached a page with about 250 O'Connors around the U.S., and not one of them is me. Which ones will he start killing first I wonder?
I love his comment that
"WE are not losing as much as you would like to believe."Which implies that we ARE losing, just not as fast as I say we are. I'm wiping tears of laughter from my eyes as I type.
Robert thinks I'm out of line describing myself as a "public" figure. This isn't about ego, it's a statement of fact. My identity (Dermot O' Connor, animator, lives in Pasadena, California) is a matter of public record. I don't hide behind a "false flag", a pen-name, or a yahoo email account. My photo is available on several sites, including this one Take a good look Robert - there's your target. I wouldn't want you accidentally shooting one of my neighbours with your BB gun. Regular readers of this site know who I am and where I live. I don't "mask" my identity, in spite of the dozen or so death threats that I've received since I began expressing my (GASP) opposition to the policies of Jesus W. Bush, the Christfuhrer.
I was interviewed by Reuters in 2003, in connection with my gulf war game (which was played on CNN as well as TV channels around the world. I was offered an interview by Fox News' Neil Cavuto, which I declined with pleasure. The game was linked on the home page of MSN.com and secondary pages of CNN.com and yahoo.com. Have you ever had your work on the pages of those sites, Robert? (By work, I mean creative endeavours, not murders or bombings or pederasty). At its peak, my "littl web site (sic)" was receiving almost 2 million visitors a month.
I have been interviewed by the Associated Press twice, first in connection with my animated political cartoons, secondly regarding my activity as an urban gardener. (I'm quoted in the last two paragraphs. It was picked up by Forbes magazine and Stars and Stripes! Robert, have you ever been quoted in Forbes magazine? You should try it - it's great fun!
I have done several radio interviews, one with an Austrian station, another with the BBC, a third with KPFK radio in LA. I'm not exactly Michael Moore (Blessed be His Sacred Wobbliness), but how many radio interviews have you done Robert?
As Ted Rall has often observed, right-wing hate-mailers are obsessed with sodomy and gay rape to a degree that's bizarre. It tells us much about their deeply repressed sexual identity:
"Enjoy getting fucked by a goat you little irish queer"This brilliant put-down reminds me of the time when Oscar Wilde and James Whistler were exchanging witticisms. After one of Whistler's funny comments, Wilde said "I wish I'd said that." to which Whistler replied "You will Oscar. You will." If only Robert Smith had been there, he could have put them in their place, with a wry jest about goat-fucking queers.
Oh, how they would have chuckled.
Again, give me your real identity Robert (not a yahoo or hotmail email account), and I'll send you my STREET address - that way you can plant your bomb in the right place. You can't ask fairer than that. I guess if you're too scared to crawl out from under your rock and face me, we shouldn't be shocked that you won't sign up to fight in Iraq.
Don't feel bad though - you're in good company. Lots and lots of your war-mongering fellow red-Staters are just like you - keen to cheer from the sidelines as poor working class kids from shit-tip ghettoes get bits of their bodies blown off in god-forsaken deserts. What do you do? Do you join up? Do you work for an NGO? Do you plant a victory garden or sell your car? Do you SACRIFICE ONE SINGLE PART OF YOUR PRECIOUS LIFESTYLE for the war on Terror? No. You'll put a stupid plastic ribbon on your car along with an "American" flag that was made in China, wear a T-Shirt that says "These colors don't run" (!!!), and fire off a death threat to a website that you don't agree with.
Amazingly, given the martial fervor of so many "patriotic" Amurcans like Robert Smith, recruitment levels to the military are plummeting. Not so long ago, I came up with a modest proposal that just might make all of us happy.
GAWD BLESS AMURKA. GAWD BLESS PREZNIT BUSH. AH'LL KILL LIBRULS CAWS THEY HATE AWR FREEDUMS. IF YOU DON'T LAAK THAT, AH'LL KILL YEW.With "patriots" like Robert Smith, America doesn't need enemies. Sad to say, I believe Robert to be all too typical of a sizable minority of American society: ill-bred (if not in-bred), borderline retarded, barely literate, willfully ignorant, and hypocritical to a degree that staggers the mind. Oh yeah, they're also gutless cowards, so scared of every turban they see that they'll surrender their sacred freedoms for the illusion of "security".
At least Bush and his cabal of child-murdering monsters won't be able to build much of an Empire with raw material as flimsy as this. Empires require sacrifice, intelligence and brutality. At least two of these commodities are severely lacking in Jesusland.
2005 December 22, Thursday
2005 December 22, Thursday
Well well well. Yesterday's death threat emailer claims to be in the U.S. Marine corp. (The Timothy McVeigh division, perhaps). "Robert Smith", having challenged me to provide my address in order that he can bomb my home and kill me (as well as any loved ones), is now too chicken-shit to rise to the challenge. No wonder the Iraqis are winning:
| Subject: Re: Re: you are a liberal pussy Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:52:53 -0800 (PST) From: Robert Smith fohammer7@yahoo.com> 2 things. I admire your reply. it wasnt expected. and your not getting my USMC address so you can parade it on your anti-american site. sorry Mr.Marx aint happening |
Well Robert, I'm glad that you're impressed by my reply to your death-threat. Believe me, you're about to get a LOT more impressed before I'm done with you.
Do feel free to email Robert to encourage his bravery in the face of the enemy - you may want to email him from an "anonymous" yahoo or hotmail account. That's what passes for valor these days. What? Is it asking too much for the guy to crawl out from behind his cowardly yahoo email address? Is it asking too much for a "marine" to face his enemy like a man? Anyhow Robert, here's where we stand:
1. You made the big mistake of confusing me with a simpering American middle class liberal. I'm a working-class Irishman. You will soon learn the difference, unfortunately for you.
2. Yahoo email accounts aren't anonymous, in spite of what they say in the trailer park.
3. I've emailed yahoo regarding your explicit death threat.
4. In the event of my email being unanswered, I'll be emailing my ex-boss (a very decent woman who currently works for yahoo), to procure a phone number that I can call at yahoo.com. I'll be talking with them about your criminal activity over the next few days. Best case scenario: I hope you don't need your yahoo account, as it's probably going to be deleted. Worst case scenario: expect a call from the police.
5. I don't think we'll be seeing "Robert Smith" in action in Iraq, as he's just one more in a long line of delusional cowards who like to hide behind the real soldiers who do the fighting and dying.
You sir, are as repellant as they come. Incidentally, your threat to kill me simply confirms my description of people like you as Fascists. At least the nazis had the courage of their convictions and risked their lives for their twisted beliefs. You are beneath contempt.
update:
| Subject: you are a liberal pussy Subject: Re: you are a liberal pussy Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 04:02:28 -0800 (PST) sorry buddy ain't happening. wtf do you need it for? forget it! |
God I love these guys. He asks for my address in order to kill me, then gets freaked out when I ask him to reply with his real email account. By gum, this is so funny. Here's my response to G.I. Joe:
| Subject: Re: you are a liberal pussy Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:29:38 -0800 From: Dermot To: Robert Smith <fohammer7@yahoo.com> Do you remember writing this: > p.s.give me your address and I'll be more that > happy to blow your home up so you can see how it > feels. if there's any luck someone you love will be inside. Unlike you, you anonymous shirking coward, I am a public figure. It's not asking a lot for you to meet me on equal terms. Send me your real email address and identity, and you get my address. It's not very complicated. Maybe I should translate into chicken speak for you: PUCK PUCK PUCK PUCK PUCK-AW!!!! PUCK PUCK PUCK PUCK PUCK PUCK puck-AW!!!!! Now do you understand? Or is your patriotism limited to what you can do from behind a QWERTY keyboard and an anonymous email account? Dermot O' Connor (my real name). |
The gene pool is so shallow these days. I blame microwave ovens.
2005 December 21, Solstice day
I received a death threat today. Another tough-guy patriot hiding behind an "anonymous" yahoo email account!
| Subject: you are a liberal pussy Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:04:15 -0800 (PST) From: Robert Smith <fohammer7@yahoo.com> ^that about sums it up. you web site reminds me of a rock. neither one is funny. If America is so bad and Bush is so evil why do you live here? It can only be because you are the product of you mother being fucked by a british dog and you want to distance yourself from that memory as much as possible. Or you're gay and where ever you live there are alot more gays and you feel at home. Maybe you should go to Iraq and find Zarquwi and tell him how you feel. While he's sawing off your head maybe you can come up with a way to make your web site funny. go ahead and say something stupid like, "yehaw!, lets draw." or call em a facist war monger. cause' your talking points are worn out and your socialist or communist dreams for this country will never come true. p.s.give me your address and I'll be more that happy to blow your home up so you can see how it feels. if there's any luck someone you love will be inside. |
America can put rovers on Mars, and at the same time produce filthy pieces of living shit like Robert Smith by the truckload. Bear in mind that my address can be found in minutes by anyone with a little internet know-how. I will be taking this up with yahoo. Here's my reply to him:
| Subject: Re: you are a liberal pussy Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:12:57 -0800 From: Dermot To: Robert Smith <fohammer7@yahoo.com> Dear Robert, Which branch of the armed services are you in? Please send your reply from a .mil email account. Thank you in anticipation of your cooperation. Dermot. p.s. if you do this, I'll be happy to send you my address, tough guy. |
I'm going to start signing up all the people who've sent me hate mail over the years to the recruitment lists of the U.S. military. It's time to put your asses where your mouths are, you gutless chicken-hawks.
2005 December 19, Monday
This is an amazing account of Western tourists in Cancun prior to Hurricane Wilma hitting. The collective denial is incredible.
Britain is in deep trouble: North Sea gas drying up faster than hoped
2005 December 15, Thursday
Oh dude, like, have I just heard the funniest joke of all time!!! I keep cracking up at work whenever I think of it - my colleagues think I'm nuts, sniggering away in my cubicle, tears running down my cheeks. I may have peed on myself a litte bit from chortling so much. I'm going to tell you this joke, but be warned: it's pretty damned funny, and you might not be able to control yourself when you read it, OK?
(Don't eat or drink anything while you read The Joke, or you might choke to death, and I wouldn't want to be liable).
Alright, here It is:
| QUESTION: Since the inception of the Iraqi war, I'd like to know the approximate total of Iraqis who have been killed. And by Iraqis I include civilians, military, police, insurgents, translators. PUNCHLINE: How many Iraqi citizens have died in this war? I would say 30,000, more or less, have died as a result of the initial incursion and the ongoing violence against Iraqis. We've lost about 2,140 of our own troops in Iraq. |
Wait a second - that's not funny at all - in fact, it's pretty horrific. But President Evil and the
Truly, a more fetid collection of sociopathic shit-eaters would be difficult to assemble. Skull-raping would be too good for them.
Meanwhile, Bush's gestapo protect the HomeReich, by keeping their beady eye's on mini-Golf courses. Yes, the Terrorists are going after our mini-golf courses. Let me say that one more time: our mini-gold courses are under threat from Osama Bin Laden. Yes, they hate our freedom, and our mini-golf.
If anyone out there has a machine that will transport me between parallel universes, please feel free to contact me. I fear the fabric of space-time in this dimension is about to unravel - by my calculations ... any time soon.
OK - some postive stuff now - to counter the evil. Here's a collapsible rainwater collection syetem (found via my friends at path to freedom. Get of the grid as much as you can people. Also - how to drug your cats! (the natural way).
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2005 December 13, Tuesday
torture cartoon!
another torture cartoon! Jeebus, I'm living in a fucking parallel universe.
Murphy's Law and survival
Children as Human Shields Courtesy of the US military. What a bunch of wankers. If I were a soldier (hah!), the last thing I'd be doing in a warzone is handing out candy to kids. That's just me though. I was born with a conscience.
dead iraqi babies - your tax dollars at work. HOO-AH!
Israel plans attack on Iran
kill all screensavers - we can all do this.
2005 December 12, Monday
Hysterical: Pokie the Punisher!
Within hours of the oil depot explosion, British authorities were pooh-poohing the idea that it was the result of a terrorist attack. How did they know that it wasn't? I doubt that they had detectives on the scene of the incident. A person versed in the real energy situation would be forgiven for being suspicious:
| Police said the blasts appeared to be accidental, though they occurred just four days after an al-Qaida videotape appeared on the Internet calling for attacks on facilities carrying oil "stolen" from Muslims in the Middle East... ...On Wednesday, a videotape by al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri was shown on the Internet calling for attacks against Gulf oil facilities. Portions of the video were released Sept. 19 and shown on Al-Jazeera television. "I call on the holy warriors to concentrate their campaigns on the stolen oil of the Muslims, most of the revenues of which go to the enemies of Islam," said the Egyptian al-Zawahri. "The enemies of Islam are exploiting such vital resources with incomparable greed, and we have to stop that theft with all we can and save this fortune for the nation of Islam." The cause of Sunday's disaster was not immediately known, said Total SA, the French oil company that operates Buncefield in a joint venture with Texaco. The British subsidiary, Total UK, said in a statement it was in contact with police and security forces. |
2005 December 9, Friday
Left Behind: The Movies! Who knew?
Zombie soldiers vs. The President. I've got it on tape, I can't wait.
2005 December 8, Thursday
Bohemian Grove
Bohemian Grove Photos!
Food Crisis
re-ruralisation
pitcher irrigation
zero-tech refridgeration!
kill all screensavers
voluntary simplicity
$10 million 13-year old's birthday party
bio-diesel madness
scientology
2005 December 5, Monday
Ted Rall: How Ragtag Insurgents Beat the World's Sole Superpower
Steve Bell has been busy:
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