Some people are weird, part elebenty-billion:
The wackadoodle Orly "outed" me on her blog. Don't go there. It's malware infested. Plus, she has no clue how to set up a website, so it's impossible to find. But yep, she successfully outed listeme.
Now, mind you, if you google listeme, my real name shows up four times in the first page of results. This must have taxed her little brain.
But that's not the weird part.
I have the famous "someone is wrong on the internet" xkcd comic printed out and taped on my desk. I've been known to stay up late a time or two to argue with just one more "wrong" person online. I like to think I change minds. Probably not, though.
Anyway, in my journeys, I found the birther fighting community. Some of the people I've been privileged to hang out with are seriously smart folks with seriously full heads of knowledge. My role in this community is to occasionally snark (I'm a lurker by nature, remember). The other four people she outed at the same time are SERIOUS falsehood fighters. I'm just a goofball hanging out on a forum. What made her pick me out of all the more "dangerous" folk?
But that's not the worst part!
Her researcher called my userpic a "doggie pic". What kind of moron doesn't recognize the greatest dog in the history of dogs?
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Friday, July 30, 2010
defamation and blogging
What are the elements of a defamation claim?
The elements that must be proved to establish defamation are:
1. a publication to one other than the person defamed;
2. a false statement of fact;
3. that is understood as
* a. being of and concerning the plaintiff; and
* b. tending to harm the reputation of plaintiff.
4. If the plaintiff is a public figure, he or she must also prove actual malice.
www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/defamation
The elements that must be proved to establish defamation are:
1. a publication to one other than the person defamed;
2. a false statement of fact;
3. that is understood as
* a. being of and concerning the plaintiff; and
* b. tending to harm the reputation of plaintiff.
4. If the plaintiff is a public figure, he or she must also prove actual malice.
www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/defamation
Sunday, September 13, 2009
horizontality 2
When last we left our stalwart defender of liberty, she was ignoring the plaque on millions of Californians' teeth and jetting around the world filing writs and things in states that she, well, doesn't have license to practice law in.
My mom used to play chess against my dad and do absolutely ridiculous things that would cause him to freeze in amusement and analysis. "Perhaps it is brilliance," he might have mused. And he would try to figure out what her plays meant. Well, her plays meant she was just doing random crap, that's what they meant, and the legal profession would be wise to learn this lesson from my parents and stop just staring in dazed fascination at this bleached crazy person from the west.
She has a known disbarred felon assisting her now. Her latest evidence was presented by a person convicted multiple times of forgery. Forgery! Really! "Evidence", I mean.
How does this tie into my life? Well, yesterday she was marching (or standing, maybe) against that usurpering guy in the White House, and so were Greg and Tina, and therefore I am only 2 degrees of separation from her and that is too freaking close for comfort. Greg and Tina, I hasten to add, were protesting his policies and thereby being a good example for the children by taking part in the political process. As far as I know, they did not meet her, but I plan to ask them, because that would be as cool as meeting Godzilla.
Actually, I'm not sure of the rules of the degrees of separation game. That's two degrees, right?
My mom used to play chess against my dad and do absolutely ridiculous things that would cause him to freeze in amusement and analysis. "Perhaps it is brilliance," he might have mused. And he would try to figure out what her plays meant. Well, her plays meant she was just doing random crap, that's what they meant, and the legal profession would be wise to learn this lesson from my parents and stop just staring in dazed fascination at this bleached crazy person from the west.
She has a known disbarred felon assisting her now. Her latest evidence was presented by a person convicted multiple times of forgery. Forgery! Really! "Evidence", I mean.
How does this tie into my life? Well, yesterday she was marching (or standing, maybe) against that usurpering guy in the White House, and so were Greg and Tina, and therefore I am only 2 degrees of separation from her and that is too freaking close for comfort. Greg and Tina, I hasten to add, were protesting his policies and thereby being a good example for the children by taking part in the political process. As far as I know, they did not meet her, but I plan to ask them, because that would be as cool as meeting Godzilla.
Actually, I'm not sure of the rules of the degrees of separation game. That's two degrees, right?
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
horizontality, the queen of the wingnuts
There's this dentist, see, who came from Russia, where it was really really bad. I assume she was attacked by communists there. So she came here to America, the Beautiful, by way of Israel, I think, where she got her dental degree (although I'm not sure of that, either).
She also got a law degree! One of the wonderful things about America, the Beautiful, is that you can keep learning your whole life. (I suppose that's true elsewhere, but probably not Russia, what with all the communists.) And so when she heard the troubling news about that foreign sounding guy that "won" the election, she was ready, with her law degree thing. She looked for plaintiffs. She was going to fight this usurper, by golly!
She got several plaintiffs. One of them is a calm guy named Alan Keyes. You might remember his various runs for various political positions. He might have "won" the election himself, if not for that foreign guy. Another is a fine officer named Cook who signed up as a plaintiff in February and then volunteered to go to Afghanistan in May and THEN sued, well, pretty much everyone, to get out of his "deployment". Then he was surprised that his commanding officers rescinded his orders before he could go to court.
Surely there are other plaintiffs out there, military men and women, who are as patriotic as Mr. Cook! Surely the dentist can sign some of them on to defy orders and make lots of seriously ugly statements about the Commander-in-Chief!
Surely she knows all the military laws that apply to such folks, with her online degree and all.
For heaven's sake, surely she knows intellectual property laws should be preventing her from cutting and pasting entire news articles, including advertisements and sidebars, onto her own site, which she regularly touts as being a Very Popular Site. That's the least of most people's problems with her, but it really bugs me.
It makes one wonder what IS required to become a lawyer/dentist in California, really.
*her name plus four blanks. Okay, the blanks are H,I,N,O.
**I know I already talked about wingnuts this week, but man.
She also got a law degree! One of the wonderful things about America, the Beautiful, is that you can keep learning your whole life. (I suppose that's true elsewhere, but probably not Russia, what with all the communists.) And so when she heard the troubling news about that foreign sounding guy that "won" the election, she was ready, with her law degree thing. She looked for plaintiffs. She was going to fight this usurper, by golly!
She got several plaintiffs. One of them is a calm guy named Alan Keyes. You might remember his various runs for various political positions. He might have "won" the election himself, if not for that foreign guy. Another is a fine officer named Cook who signed up as a plaintiff in February and then volunteered to go to Afghanistan in May and THEN sued, well, pretty much everyone, to get out of his "deployment". Then he was surprised that his commanding officers rescinded his orders before he could go to court.
Surely there are other plaintiffs out there, military men and women, who are as patriotic as Mr. Cook! Surely the dentist can sign some of them on to defy orders and make lots of seriously ugly statements about the Commander-in-Chief!
Surely she knows all the military laws that apply to such folks, with her online degree and all.
For heaven's sake, surely she knows intellectual property laws should be preventing her from cutting and pasting entire news articles, including advertisements and sidebars, onto her own site, which she regularly touts as being a Very Popular Site. That's the least of most people's problems with her, but it really bugs me.
It makes one wonder what IS required to become a lawyer/dentist in California, really.
*her name plus four blanks. Okay, the blanks are H,I,N,O.
**I know I already talked about wingnuts this week, but man.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Conspiracy theories are interesting. Conspiracy theorISTS are mind-bogglingly fascinating.
And there are a whole bunch in active mode at the moment! (Observer bias may be a factor here. Maybe there are always this many active ones going on, but I just haven't noticed.)
The one I'm following right now is the "omg obama took over the white house with no proof at ALL and he must have been born in kenya and if not maybe he was adopted by an indonesian. Or maybe the law gives us OTHER WAYS TO REMOVE HIM if we can get our hands on the law, darn it" one. (I cleaned up the spelling.) You would think this would be easily resolved, but here's the thing. Conspiracy theorists don't start with facts on their side. They start with a goal-ish desire to actually get rid of facts. "I don't want to give my kids shots, because I don't understand them." "The earth can't be THAT old, because I don't understand how the holy books and science books could possibly be reconciled." "I never heard of that foreign-sounding guy before so he must be an alien USURPER OMG." "I tried model rockets and it looked nothing like that and plus the flag MOVES; explain THAT!"
Anyway. So I can't possibly give you the flavor of these birther folks' arguments, because they get reallllllly involved. They involve both communists and mobsters, which is pretty alarming, right? Right?
But the best part about these guys is that they manage to combine their theories with the other ones! They are convinced that the communist mobsters are behind the swine flu virus, you know, to distract from the monster birth certificate problem, and also the financial "crisis" (quotes theirs), also to distract from the birth certificate, and that they pay off the Clintons and Gores, and don't get them started on the huge global warming hoax, what with the winters and all.
I had no idea.
And there are a whole bunch in active mode at the moment! (Observer bias may be a factor here. Maybe there are always this many active ones going on, but I just haven't noticed.)
The one I'm following right now is the "omg obama took over the white house with no proof at ALL and he must have been born in kenya and if not maybe he was adopted by an indonesian. Or maybe the law gives us OTHER WAYS TO REMOVE HIM if we can get our hands on the law, darn it" one. (I cleaned up the spelling.) You would think this would be easily resolved, but here's the thing. Conspiracy theorists don't start with facts on their side. They start with a goal-ish desire to actually get rid of facts. "I don't want to give my kids shots, because I don't understand them." "The earth can't be THAT old, because I don't understand how the holy books and science books could possibly be reconciled." "I never heard of that foreign-sounding guy before so he must be an alien USURPER OMG." "I tried model rockets and it looked nothing like that and plus the flag MOVES; explain THAT!"
Anyway. So I can't possibly give you the flavor of these birther folks' arguments, because they get reallllllly involved. They involve both communists and mobsters, which is pretty alarming, right? Right?
But the best part about these guys is that they manage to combine their theories with the other ones! They are convinced that the communist mobsters are behind the swine flu virus, you know, to distract from the monster birth certificate problem, and also the financial "crisis" (quotes theirs), also to distract from the birth certificate, and that they pay off the Clintons and Gores, and don't get them started on the huge global warming hoax, what with the winters and all.
I had no idea.
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