{"id":7283,"date":"2009-03-03T18:51:34","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T01:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=7283"},"modified":"2009-03-04T15:05:24","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T22:05:24","slug":"but-tonight-im-cleaning-out-my-closet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7283\/but-tonight-im-cleaning-out-my-closet\/","title":{"rendered":"But Tonight, I’m Cleaning Out My Closet."},"content":{"rendered":"

A few things that are almost<\/span> posts.\u00a0 Wanted to put the thoughts into the Echo Chamber, quote song lyrics, and rock my baby Ruby to sleep since pretty Heather is all sick and stuff.\u00a0\u00a0 So here’s the best of my drafts.<\/p>\n

[1] You’re Jammin<\/span>‘ Me.<\/a> <\/strong> I’m opting out of the political spew.\u00a0 There’s plenty of negativity.\u00a0 But really, I’m not into what the house, Senate, Obama does.\u00a0 There’s not a dimes worth of difference between conservatism and socialism.\u00a0 Neither are freedom. When we can stop genuflecting to abstract hierarchies and live and die by our individual contributions, we’ll be in a better place.\u00a0\u00a0 So, I’m recommending no more recoiling at the political BS.\u00a0\u00a0 Instead, I’m going to outpace everyone, including the looters.\u00a0 I’m going to buy some gold, to be sure, but I’m going to keep moving forward.\u00a0 No energy will be wasted.\u00a0 I’ll run as fast as I can, and hopefully that will be enough to outrace the Horde.<\/p>\n

[2] I don’t care what they say about us anyway…<\/a> <\/strong>There is a profound difference to be here.\u00a0 I went after Greg Swann<\/span>, publicly<\/a> , and in the comments with regard to him collecting money for Heap<\/a> .\u00a0 I never suspected his motives, but I wanted to guard against the appearance of impropriety.\u00a0 He…gave a harrumph and now the Heap money will go to Charity.\u00a0 I came at Greg hard enough to trigger 4 emails to me (I’ve never had 4 emails from one post).\u00a0 I’m still allowed to post here.\u00a0 Compare that to the comment<\/em> I left elsewhere that prompted a shrill and bizarre call from a quavering webblogger<\/span> on<\/a> a Saturday morning…in may of 2008, and you know that we’re about ideas, and we’re all gonna change course when we’re wrong, or when we appear to some to be wrong.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s seriously different here, and if you can realize that, email Greg.\u00a0 He won’t take your face off of a sidebar for taking pot shots at him.<\/p>\n

[3]\u00a0You Got a Lotta Nerve…To Say You Are My Friend<\/a><\/strong> …<\/strong>Never, ever try to start a relationship with anyone esp. ME by talking Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few things that are almost posts.\u00a0 Wanted to put the thoughts into the Echo Chamber, quote song lyrics, and rock my baby Ruby to sleep since pretty Heather is all sick and stuff.\u00a0\u00a0 So here’s the best of my drafts. [1] You’re Jammin‘ Me. I’m opting out of the political spew.\u00a0 There’s plenty of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-casual-friday","7":"category-group-therapy","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7535,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7535\/the-financial-post-aging-self-serving-demagogues-who-have-spent-decades-warping-the-us-political-system-for-their-own-ends\/","url_meta":{"origin":7283,"position":0},"title":"The Financial Post: “Aging self-serving demagogues who have spent decades warping the U.S. political system for their own ends.”","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 20, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Is this the end of America? 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Countries that obstruct free enterprise have poor populations. The relative wealth or poverty of a given population is strongly correlated with and can be readily predicted from the level of economic oppression in that political economy. This is easily understood\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Big Mother"","block_context":{"text":"Big Mother","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/big-mother\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6634,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6634\/bloggers-transparency-stimulus-and-laxatives\/","url_meta":{"origin":7283,"position":5},"title":"Bloggers. Transparency. Stimulus. and Laxatives.","author":"Eric Blackwell","date":"January 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"First off, the following blog post is NOT political. PLEASE do not try to turn it political. (If you do, you will be 301 (read: permanently) redirected to the fact that this is NOT political.) 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