Tea Bagger Terrorism Strikes the Heartland

[sbr]

The tea bagger terrorist's ISP took down his website and his manifesto, but the smoking gun has preserved it for posterity.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0218102stack1.html

Interesting.  If the manifesto gets wide circulation I think a fair number of people are going to relate to it.  I doubt it will have any meaningful impact or anything, but it's the least insane terrorist manifesto I've seen that I can recall.

Also, if his entire website looked like the first page, it's no wonder he had trouble finding work.  It's impossible to tell what the dude could actually do or what he'd done in the past from the nebulous fluff he had up there.

No, that's pretty loony.  Anyone who can relate to it is criminally insane and should be fired.  From a cannon.  Into the sun.

Says the craziest one here.

I agree with Cal, it wasn't nearly as off the deep end as I expected.

[Razgovory]

I know crazy.

[Syt]

I had Texas chili with crackers for lunch today.  Coincidence?

And I saw that Texas redneck at the supermarket.

[Caliga]

Raz, I never said it was sane, but rather that it was less insane than other maifestoes I can recall, which include the Unabomber's, the creepy couldn't-get-laid gym guy in Pittsburgh, the Virginia Tech shooter's, Timothy McVeigh's, various Al-Q writings, and so on.

The author sounds like a paranoid schizophrenic to me, but he uses alot of themes that the Tea Party crowd will indeed relate to, or at least the more extreme members of that movement.

[Caliga]

You know, now that I think about it, I interviewed an old guy once who had his own "consulting business", owned a plane, and told me he'd fly anywhere for a contract gig.  I can't remember where he'd lived in the past but he had definitely not lived in Kentucky his whole life.  I can't remember his name, but he was annoying and weird and I bet I'd remember his face.

[Agelastus]

Tea baggers are supposed to throw the tea in the harbor, not themselves. 

"Tea baggers are supposed to  throw the tea in the harbor, not throw the tea in themselves," or

"Tea baggers are supposed to throw the tea in the harbor, not throw themselves in the harbor"?

The first is what is actually written, but the second is the only one that makes much sense.

And in all cases should be "into the harbor" rather than "in", assuming they are not already standing in the water.

Unless this is another case of American rather than British English?

[ulmont]

And in all cases should be "into the harbor" rather than "in", assuming they are not already standing in the water.

Unless this is another case of American rather than British English?

Main Entry: 1in
Pronunciation: \ˈin, ən, ən\
Function: preposition
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German in in, Latin in, Greek en
Date: before 12th century

1 a —used as a function word to indicate inclusion, location, or position within limits <in the lake> <wounded in the leg> <in the summer> b : into 1 <went in the house>
2 —used as a function word to indicate means, medium, or instrumentality <written in pencil> <bound in leather>
3 a —used as a function word to indicate limitation, qualification, or circumstance <alike in some respects> <left in a hurry> b : into 2a <broke in pieces>
4 —used as a function word to indicate purpose <said in reply>
5 —used as a function word to indicate the larger member of a ratio <one in six is eligible>

Note that 1b and 3b for "in" are defined as "into."

[alfred russel]

Also, if his entire website looked like the first page, it's no wonder he had trouble finding work.  It's impossible to tell what the dude could actually do or what he'd done in the past from the nebulous fluff he had up there.

The big turn off to me was the 6 page rant he had leading into the website.

[Agelastus]

And in all cases should be "into the harbor" rather than "in", assuming they are not already standing in the water.

Unless this is another case of American rather than British English?

Main Entry: 1in
Pronunciation: \ˈin, ən, ən\
Function: preposition
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German in in, Latin in, Greek en
Date: before 12th century

1 a —used as a function word to indicate inclusion, location, or position within limits <in the lake> <wounded in the leg> <in the summer> b : into 1 <went in the house>
2 —used as a function word to indicate means, medium, or instrumentality <written in pencil> <bound in leather>
3 a —used as a function word to indicate limitation, qualification, or circumstance <alike in some respects> <left in a hurry> b : into 2a <broke in pieces>
4 —used as a function word to indicate purpose <said in reply>
5 —used as a function word to indicate the larger member of a ratio <one in six is eligible>

Note that 1b and 3b for "in" are defined as "into."

"Into" still has the advantage of only being readable in one way when used in this form of sentence, rather than the two ways it is possible to read the sentence as written.

[Caliga]

The big turn off to me was the 6 page rant he had leading into the website.

[alfred russel]

The author sounds like a paranoid schizophrenic to me, but he uses alot of themes that the Tea Party crowd will indeed relate to, or at least the more extreme members of that movement.

Yeah, the rant is full of paranoid conspiracies. It seems he has been wrecking his life for decades over obscure lines in tax laws. He probably was reasonably intelligent, its too bad he never got help.

[Razgovory]

I wonder if he would write all this on his CV.

[Barrister]

Fucking de-taxers.

And Cal - the rant is crazy.  Full stop.

[The Minsky Moment]

I filed no return that year thinking that because I didn't have any income there was no need.

[Razgovory]

I filed no return that year thinking that because I didn't have any income there was no need.

By that little bleeding face are you suggesting that some of his problems are his own fault and not fault of some wide range conspiracy against computer consultants?