Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Suggested reading...

The Ranter
The Views of The Ranter

I need to send out a very big thanks to Mamabear for a short story on a blog that she recommended to me and suggested that in true Wild Bill fashion, I should have the theme song to Jaws paying loudly in the background and she was so right. It would have been a fitting tribute to this piece of work, nicely done and darn it makes you think.

So, without further adieu I suggest you take a leap to The New Media Journal, December 7, 2008 and read the article written by, Raymond S. Kraft.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

And if ya liked that I urge you to go to dansimmons.com and read the April 2006 message from dan archives (about the time traveler)

It is a good segue to the story you just posted.

it is coming....it is coming.............it. is. coming.

The Old Ranter said...

Thank you mamabear,
I will share a bus ride I took with you today. When the eyes are acting up I do not get behind the wheel.
The bus driver told me the same thing. Exactly.
Ranter

The Old Ranter said...

Mamabear, I have been all over his site, can not find it. Can you post the link to the page?
Ranter

Anonymous said...

I am all but computer illiterate. I give you these directions and if ya still can't find it I will have Bear help us when he gets home from school. So here tis.

Hope ya can get there from here.

It is soooooo worth it. I originally put it on E's blog but probably not many viewed. I have to go back once a week and read it as I think it is so excellent. I am a science fix buff so it truly is my genre. However, this smacks tooooo much of the truth.

America lays in wait like the fattened cow. Complacent to bicker amongst herself like so much gossip UNAWARES of the extreme hatred and dangers multipying every day.

I feel if we do not stand up and face the monsters head on VERY SHORTLY (and I am talking months, not years) we will experience a bloodbath on this soil to make 9/11 a skip in the park. And yes, I know the cost having my only child right there in the mix. It scares me to death.

What scares me most is how sooo many ppl don't get it, have not a clue, think every thing is A O.K.

The monsters have said what they are going to do and they are about their work.

Look at the 6 Imams here at MSP airport. They were taunting us, using our freedoms against us. I am usually pretty mellow and don't yell at the tv (unlike my better half) but last nite was the exception and I found myself yelling at the 3 tv's we had on for the news programs. Room to room---I can't stand it, it is driving me insane.

Wish I would have marked it. There was a story on some blog from a woman who was an intelligence person and went to a mosque just to see what was up. She spoke and wrote fluent Arabic. She arrived an hour early and asked if she could just sit and read a book until the major program (reminding herself to turn the pages in her book every so often) The men were having a meeting and what they were discussing was EXACTLY what happened at our airport yesterday. It is a conscious effort to infiltrate and use our freedoms against us. She said they even said "be careful there is an American woman in the back" and the Imam said "don't worry, she does not speak Arabic" Ha Ha.

Damn I wish I could find that again, been looking, but you know how it is when yer all over the net. If I find it I will let you know.

Our enemies laugh at us. Stupid Americans. It is more than I can bear. We are not prepared to reach within and use the darkness they are capable of. And because of that we may LOSE ourselves and our good life.

Anyway, I guess you have taught me well, I am truly on a rant.

So, here is the direction to the story. If ya can't get there let me know.

Go to dansimmons.com
in the lower right corner under current features (in red) forget now maybe it is the left corner. click on November/december 2006 message from dan.
see the blue box on the right side of the page under new messages from dan. Click on "past messages" in small letters.
Then click on April 2006 message from dan.

Sorry, that was long and laborious. Hope ya get there! It is so worth the trouble.

AND.....here is yer assignment.

read the story and answer these questions

Tell me who you think the traveler is

More intriging, answer me this...

What do you think the 3 words are.