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April 19th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Sir,
This is a critical comment, not spam or hate talk, whatever that means. First, let me say that I enjoy your site and visit often. However, I must say that your constant snarky sniping about America and its supposed infringments on human rights is annoying at best and angering at worst. The majority of us Americans believe that we have been targeted by an enemy that lives among us. Every now and then our government does something right and catches a few of them shooting their AK-47s off in the woods, or flying off to Pakistan to learn how to kill Americans in their hospital beds and other handy Jihadi skills (All true, and documented). Despite that, I have yet to hear of, see, or even read about, people being dragged off and disappeared simply because they happen to be brown or Muslim. So will you please get real and keep it literary and not America-bashing bs?
thanks,
Paul Clayton
April 19th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Since you’re on WordPress, I’d suggest installing Spam Karma. It’s done a great job on all my WP sites.
April 19th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
All this spam is destroying two things that made blogs such a wonderful network: links in comments and trackbacks.
Most sites allow at least one link in a comment before it is sent off to Akismet.
April 19th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Paul Clayton,
Here’s something to read about, if not to hear or see: Your government quite recently sent a Canadian off to get tortured in Syria, when he was trying to get home, to Ottawa. No apologies have been made. It troubles me that you haven’t heard about that. Or, if you have, that you’ve forgotten about it. Already.
April 20th, 2007 at 9:33 am
I think there are other ways of referencing information other than linking in posts. Google usually meets us halfway.
April 20th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Paul Clayton,
What you call “America bashing” we call snarky political commentary. Not often enough, but sometimes, in Canada, we actually like to see politics and literature intersect–as it does on this blog. It is precisely the way we “keep it real.” If you’ve not come across incidents (all true, and documented) of your country acting in the way Comrade Ninja is implying, then, well, you need to surf media outlets further a field, dude.
April 21st, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Clearly Paul Clayton is white.