A crackpot troll by the name of Karl R Schneider made me a challenge of $5k recently to come try to separate him from his guns, or gunz, and he offered to provide his address.
We've been waiting and waiting and waiting here at penigma for that promised address, but commenter Karl is just full of hot air; heck he may not even have any firearms at all, and I'm still skeptical about the cash offer.
So imagine my laughter at seeing something from Karl wind up in our junk folder, after all this time; yes, I almost missed it, nearly throwing it out the rest of the trash. It was an email from 'Karl'. What made it so very funny is that hot-air-talking-out-his-derriere (where the rest of his hot air escapes) appears to be suggesting another threat. I made the letters bigger when I cut and pasted, because clearly Karl likes to talk big, he just gets small when it comes to any follow-through. The email was in conjunction with a threat to shoot me. :
I'm guessing this is one of those lonely Saturday nights where alcohol dances with stupidity, and judgment and responsibility leave the room by the window.
Before Karl gets his crabby old man knickers in a twist about the reproduction of his email here, I will take this opportunity to remind Karl and all readers that what is submitted to this blog, including emails, belongs to this blog by becoming part of the content, so we can do whatever we want with it once it is GIVEN to us under those conditions. It says so very clearly in the left hand column with our blog rules. If you comment, you are presumed to be aware of those conditions, and provided an implied consent.
We're still waiting on Karl telling us where he lives, the proof he owns firearms, and that he has $5k to his name.
I know where I live Karl.
In case you hadn't guessed yet KARL, I am unimpressed with you, your comment, or your email.
We've been waiting and waiting and waiting here at penigma for that promised address, but commenter Karl is just full of hot air; heck he may not even have any firearms at all, and I'm still skeptical about the cash offer.
So imagine my laughter at seeing something from Karl wind up in our junk folder, after all this time; yes, I almost missed it, nearly throwing it out the rest of the trash. It was an email from 'Karl'. What made it so very funny is that hot-air-talking-out-his-derriere (where the rest of his hot air escapes) appears to be suggesting another threat. I made the letters bigger when I cut and pasted, because clearly Karl likes to talk big, he just gets small when it comes to any follow-through. The email was in conjunction with a threat to shoot me. :
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 18:44:54 -0600
From: krs@valornet.com
To: Penigma2@hotmail.com
Subject: I found out where you live
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Before Karl gets his crabby old man knickers in a twist about the reproduction of his email here, I will take this opportunity to remind Karl and all readers that what is submitted to this blog, including emails, belongs to this blog by becoming part of the content, so we can do whatever we want with it once it is GIVEN to us under those conditions. It says so very clearly in the left hand column with our blog rules. If you comment, you are presumed to be aware of those conditions, and provided an implied consent.
We're still waiting on Karl telling us where he lives, the proof he owns firearms, and that he has $5k to his name.
I know where I live Karl.
Do you know YOUR OWN address? You did offer to provide it, Karl...; so are you going to follow through? Or are we going to continue waiting while you swill some more cheap liquid courage, or whatever it is you do to work yourself up at the keyboard to make gun nut threats?
You have the blog email, or you can put it in a comment, if you care to clarify that you were writing, in both cases, purely rhetorically, and that you didn't really mean any of what you wrote.
You have the blog email, or you can put it in a comment, if you care to clarify that you were writing, in both cases, purely rhetorically, and that you didn't really mean any of what you wrote.
In case you hadn't guessed yet KARL, I am unimpressed with you, your comment, or your email.
My best advice is to waste no time on "kavemen" like Karl.
ReplyDeleteOrdinarily, I would agree with you that Karl is not an individual worthy of time or attention.
DeleteBut as I have found with the many other silly blusters like Karl, there is an underlying fallacy to address in their thinking. While most of the Karl gun nuts are like farts, just a lot of noise and a bad smell, as we have seen this past week, some of them do turn into the Jimmy Dykes types, with their guns and bunkers.
Nancy Lanza was a more affluent version of Dykes, a survivalist who was in constant expectation that someone was 'cummin' fer her guns and all her good stuff', and had armed herself accordingly, only to be killed in PJs in her own bed.
We live in a nation of laws. None of us makes those laws individually, we make them by group decision. Sometimes that has a very large consensus, sometimes a smaller majority. What we do not have is a nation where everyone makes up their own laws.
When someone like that decides to act, or to arm themselves with weapons that the law has determined are illegal, or even to just start making threats, those gun nuts put themselves into one of two categories - someone to laugh at, or someone for the swat teams and drones to sort out like Dykes.
So it is time to sort out Karl, to laugh at him, and to point out that while he talks like he's tough, he is no doubt one of those old, white, flabby and crabby gun nuts who lives in a mostly white state in the southwest like Oklahoma and is in his mid to late 60s, who mistakenly believes a gun gives him power that it doesn't.
I have a new term for these old farts who think they are a geriatric version of Rambo: Gramp-bo.
Gramp-bos talk big and tough, but they are as stupid as the teabaggers holding up misspelled signs about the importance of English to being American.
Gramp-bo Karl is giving me the occasion to make a larger point; other than that he is as you noted a waste of time, sound and fury signifying nothing.
I guess it's a free flow of ideas, as long as you follow their ideology.
ReplyDeleteKeep up the good work DG, even the stuff I don't agree with is done very well.
Making threats also doesn't help qualify someone as a law abiding person for a background check.
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