Well damn! I haven't gotten any referrals from my good buddy Aaron lately and I found out why. He's been going after my real good buddies Kim Dutoit a white African-American, who oddly enough came here from South Africa and Toren Smith whom he called a psychopath for some reason. Since, as usual, he knows nothing about Toren or Kim, he missed the entire point of what they were saying. I've noticed that about Aaron.
I first came across Aaron, when Carl, one of my readers sent me a link of Aaron commenting on an article I was gonna fisk. It was too delicious to pass up seeing Aaron's comments and inserting mine. See, according to Aaron, all of us warbloggers are 'racist motherfuckers'. And if you read what he says about Toren, Toren needs a full-contact "diversity training seminar". I guess Toren's wife, who happens to be Japanese should attend also to see how to deal with people like Aaron.
So the insults passed back and forth. I made a joke about my Netscape 4.7 browser 'performing an illegal operation' and shutting down and Aaron came back with the retort that my sister was my mother (No Dude, she's my cousin) since I live in Georgia and must be an inbred Georgia goober. I got a good blog out of that called Stereotypes. Also, he and his friends said my sister and I must be AOL users. They must have gone to either DC schools or Atlanta schools, since my e-mail address ends in mindspring.com and not aol.com. Hello! What were your SAT scores?
Besides being inbred Georgia goobers we also didn't have any marketable skills. This pissed off my sister, but I thought it was funny. My sister and I grew up in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis. My sister, being smarter than I, did well in school and won a four year scholarship to Washington University in St. Louis. She was on the Dean's List every semester but one (I think ... knowing her, it was probably every semester). She graduated with a degree in Computer Science and has been a software engineer since 1964. She's still working and will retire in January. Bet she wishes she had some of those marketable skills Aaron was talking about. By the way, she's a millionaire.
I don't have any marketable skills either. I flunked out of a junior college and joined the Navy and learned electronics. I went to college on the GI Bill and burned out in my junior year. I'm in good company. Stephen Den Beste didn't finish college either. I started working on computers in 1977. The big 'uns. The ones that used to drink water. I started teaching computer repair in 1985. In 1988 I broke my back and moved to software. Since then I have been an instructor/programmer and have written and delivered computer training courses. Four-and-a-half years ago, I became a full time software engineer. Just think how much better I would be with marketable skills.
Nope. I don't know Linux. The programmers at my shop who do, make less than I do. If TCIDNN (The Company I Dare Not Name) wants me to learn Linux, they can pay me to do it. I'll get me some books, take two days off, and learn it. I mean, how hard can it be? Aaron knows it.
And then, in his last slam, since I chided him about not being able to come up with any good insults without using family ancestry or profanity, he called me an asshole (which I am by the way. That's no insult. It's a fact.) and said something about how he couldn't feel sorry for me because I couldn't walk. Well, I can walk with braces and crutches, but I have never expected anyone to fell sorry for me. I got my open water SCUBA certification over the weekend. I can fly an airplane. If the FAA didn't approve of some of the drugs (all legal) that I take, I would have my private pilot's license. Since my accident, I've been to England, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Egypt, Finland, and Russia. Piss on pity!!!! Does he want me to feel sorry for him because he is an 'uppity-negro'? I don't. I do feel sorry for him for being a bigoted leftist.
When I went back to work after I broke my back, after seeing so many people work the system ('I didn't get the promotion because I was a female.' ' I got kicked out of that account because I was black'), I didn't want anyone to say that the only reason I had a job was because I was disabled. I outworked all my co-workers, and guess what? The raises and promotions came, not because of Diversity(All Hail Diversity!), but because I worked my butt off.
So now we get to talk about that waste of time Earth Summit in South Africa. It's sole purpose is to have the richer countries, like the United States, throw more dollars into that cesspool called the Third World. Stephen Den Beste as usual, has the best analysis. This is nothing more than world socialism. Those that can subsidize those that can't (and won't).
Everywhere socialism has been tried it has failed. And don't throw Sweden at me. In case you haven't noticed, Sweden isn't doing too well. How about that worker's paradise, Cuba? Free medical care. Yeah, as long as you don't get any infections. Of course, people like Aaron probably think that the only reason socialism has never worked is because
I guess this paragraph by Toren is what made Aaron call him a psychopath:
One can only look at the professional whiners, NGO-ticks, worthless EUnuch bureaucrats, aid parasites and other assorted riff-raff gathered in South Africa like a vast glob of idiocy and wish those black market nukes were just a little easier to come by.
Aaron, Aaron, this is nothing but white hyperbole. Ya know, sumpin' like the black hyperbole you black dudes like Charles Barron put forth when he said
"I want to go up to the closest white person and say 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health,"
It's just a white thing. Charlie want's to slap people, Toren wants to nuke people. More from Charlie
I think everybody knew there that was what we call improvision - oratorial improvision and black hyperbole. And y'all wouldn't understand that 'cause you're uptight and you're gonna take it where it was not intended.
See Aaron. Toren was just using oratorical improvisation and white hyperbole and you're gonna misunderstand it because you're uptight and gonna take it where it was not intended. We discuss this shit at the secret white folks meetings we have. It's a white thing.
But then Toren continues
The sight of pompous liars like Mbeki, who took a stable, relatively peaceful, and prosperous nation and turned it into a economic basket case rotten with crime and paralytic with corruption telling us to clean up our act is sick-making. Yes, there's no more apartheid in South Africa. Except now the blacks there have a lower life expectancy and a reduced per capita income, among other miseries. Don't get me wrong--apartheid had to go, but the reality is that the end result has been a worse life for the average South African black, including a nearly doubled chance of being murdered by members of another tribe.
Well this really pissed Aaron off. He comments:
For a minute there, I was getting him wrong. It almost sounded like he was saying the lives of blacks were better under apartheid.
No, wait, that is what he's saying. Oddly, I got that link to Kim (old boy in the next entry) from Toren's site. Can you figure out what these two have in common?
Well Aaron, you're right, he is saying that the lives of blacks were better under apartheid, and, they were. During apartheid, blacks were immigrating to South Africa, because, even under apartheid, it was a better place to live than anywhere else. But, and here is the dirty little secret: it wasn't apartheid that drew them, but capitialism. Kim, my companion grouch points this out. Nelson Mandela, who was a pragmatist, didn't make too many changes. His successor, Thabo Mbeki, a socialist has already started to destroy the South African economy and, yes, blacks are worse off, because of socialism which never has (except in primitive societies and the Israeli kibbutz) worked, and never will work.
Let's look at another example of socialism in action. Zimbabwe, which used to be a net exporter of food, now is facing famine. Robert Mugabe's socialist experiment has failed. How long will it take until Mbeki and the ANC does the same thing to South Africa? This is not a black/white thing like Aaron would have us believe, but a capitialist/socialist/communist thing. Let's raise the spectre of racism where none exists.
I know Aaron thinks I'm just another white racist bigot, but, I really am upset at the fact that the public education system is failing black students in this country and the NAACP is worrying about the freaking confederate flag. They changed it in Georgia. Now we got some goobers who want to make that an election issue. It wasn't an issue before they changed it. It isn't an issue now that they changed it. There are more important things to worry about.
So what do we do about the 'economic apartheid' (and if that isn't a truckload of bullshit) in the Third World? We ain't gonna fix it by throwing money at it. If the Third World wants our aid, they have to clean up their gummints. Start with democracy. No socialism. No communism. The most important resource of any country is people so we'll help you with education. We'll help you with health care. Quit being in denial over the AIDs epidemic. Quit having so many kids. But don't come to us and say everything is all our fault. It's not. Get up off your asses and do sumpin' about it. We'll help ya. We ain't gonna support ya.
So I really hope I've helped Aaron out here. And another thing, I got a note from another blogger who told me that Aaron's two favorite songs were Lola by the Kinks and Dude looks Like a Lady by Aerosmith. I don't know why that's relevant, but maybe another blogger can let me know.
Bye Aaron.
Posted by denny at August 29, 2002 09:09 PM