Humbug Blogs 2 Step

[UPDATE Below]

I occasionally go through a list of local blogs to see what seems to be important and how people are responding. It's a great way to learn or measure the online pulse of the community. The Report has its favorites to be sure, but we're always searching for new blogs to add to our list. This list isn't by any means all inclusive.

I'm going to visit a list of local blogs and note some of their entries, follow some of the comments and make some observations. Be interesting to see what develops.

The first blog was the North Coast Journal. Maybe I missed it, but somewhere along the line the name was changed to simply the Journal. The Web address is still the same: http://www.northcoastjournal.com/.
The Journal's News story by Ryan Burns is: Hooked - Blood, masochism and the shocking thrill of human suspension. It comes replete with a video. Here is where, "seeing is believing." Some locals didn't think much of the Journal's idea of this story. Guess that's why we get sanitized news coverage most of the time. May be distasteful, but these things are going on in our communities and we need to know about them.

Number 2) SoHum Parlance II - My list starts with:

1. Warren in? - Report on Pres. Obama's appointment of Elizabeth Warren. 
2. Harvest Fiesta at Garberville Town Square - Notices of Garberville activities.
3. Gross! - Eric's dislike for The Journal's Hooked cover. - 68 comments.
• Eric and some others seem to think the picture offends children's tender sensibilities. This is why we have laws, to try to protect us from a minority trying to tell us how to think and what to do in a FREE America. A couple of weeks ago they were all trying to tell parents what books their children should read in school. 

Number 3) Ernie's Place - He likes to talk about the "Old Timers" is Southern Humboldt.

1. No Folks... This Ain't Kristabel's Kitchen! - Ernie's giving lessons on how to make and bake an apple pie.
• Kristabel it seems is the Chocolate Covered Xanax - What can I say? Ernie's trying to compete or maybe, taking lessons? 
2. Love, hope, and charity, in a rip-off world. - Ernie's definition of what it means to be charitable in our ever-growing time of needs. 

Number 4) Redheaded Blackbelt - Another Southern Humboldt blog of interest. The titles define the interest.

1. Don’t Turn Your Gold Into Straw–Curing Marijuana - 
2. Musing On Monday Morning Magazine About Marijuana With DA Gallegos
3. What A Lawyer Says About Prop. 19
4. Remember 9/11 And Don’t Put Up A Mosque…

Number 5) The Coffee Shop - This is a political blog - always of interest and informative, from a certain point of view.

1. 9/12
•  WOW! SEA OF PEOPLE AT 9-12 Rally In Washington DC
2. I see lots of "American color"
•  In Search Of: People Of Color
3. If Gitmo and Abu Ghraib commanders had only known
• that they could string people up by tuna hooks stuck in the skin on their backs, twirl them around while blood dripped from the piercings as people stood around cheering and getting their rocks off - that this would be considered COOL - if they had only known, waterboarding would have been totally unnecessary. Torture is merely erotic self expression. Dontcha know?
• Hooked - Blood, masochism and the shocking thrill of human suspension - NC Journal.
• We remember
• ...and many more.

Number 6) The Humboldt Herald - Always interesting to compare what Rose has to say over at the Coffee Shop with Heraldo. Each have their own distinct agenda. 

1. Coastal Commission coming to Eureka, will tour Balloon Track
2. Eureka gets polled
3. 2010 pot crop trickles in
4. Beware of the art scam
5. Jager election plot thickens - 113 comments
6. Humboldt Gay Pride 2010 - 117 comments

Number 7) The Reporta - 

1. Humboldt Growers: Excellent but Too Independent?

Number 8) Fred's Humboldt Blog

1. Cops on cameras - A video everyone should watch. Cameras provide very little protection when the police are authorized and equipped to act like Special Forces troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Number 8) Sports and food lovers blogs: Samoa Soft Ball and Planet Taperass

Number 9) HIGHBOLDTAGE - Politics and Music in Humboldt County

Number 10) The Arcata Eye - Mostly Arcata stuff.

Then there is the Times-Standard Forum - Topix: http://www.topix.net/forum/source/eureka-times-standard
Always a lot of conversation there.

Well, thats the rundown for this time. As you can see, each blog has its special interests and followers. The subjects that interest these bloggers and their following comments give a fair idea of what the online crowd thinks or believes is relevant and important in their lives and in their respective communities. Some serious thought, but mostly on peripheral issues.

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[UPDATE :: Wednesday, September 15, 2010]

Ryan Burns adds a comment on Eric Kirk's disgruntled response about the North Coast Journal's cover story about fishhooks in the back and suspension. So far Eric's little blurb about this issue has produced 132 comments. The online conversation broached a couple of serious issues that no one wanted to consider. A good reading if you want to see how people justify their elitist's right to tell everyone that they don't see as equal to them what do and how to think. When all else fails, they use their children's tender sensitivities that they think needs protecting. In the meantime their tender, sensitive babies grow up to face a brutal, murderous, Dark Age world without the capacity to survive, either spiritually, mentally or physically.

-Joe

Humpty Dumpty Sat On a Wall – SO VOTE EVERYONE!

[UPDATE Below] [UPDATE II] [UPDATE III: Humboldt Herald's latest contribution to local Humpties plight]

Did everyone vote like good little boys and girls?

Good! You can blame yourselves when these people look to their own interests first then their corporate bankster-rollers, and the “good-ol' boy club.” This is what you get when you vote for the Ruling Elite's choices. Their choices are all the same. Only the names are different. The only say the "voter" has in this governmental boondoggal is to pay the bill.

Maybe you should take a lesson from Humpty Dumpty and look outside your box:

The old rhyme goes this way:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.

That's right! Vote all the “Humpty Dumpties” into office. Try, try as you might, but look out for the Kermit's . . .

Local believers:

1. The Bright Spots :: Eric Kirk - SoHum Parlance II
2. Quote of the Day :: Humboldt Herald for lots more voting stuff.
3. More Nonsense  :: NC Journal
4. Wannabe Believer :: Fred's Humboldt Blog
5. Mixed Metaphor :: Redheaded Blackbelt
6. Crappy Is :: The Humboldt Mirror
7. Litany :: Watch Paul
8. A Dandy :: Eureka Now!
9. Gangbusters :: The Reporta
10. The Best One for last - VOTE! :: Ernie's Place

The real terrorist are right here at home, just call them stupidity, arrogance, irresponsible, liars, etc. When you consider the flim-flam the Obama government and BP has run on America and the world about the Gulf oil blowout, Humpty Dumpty probably has something to say about this too: Scientist: BP Well Could Be Leaking 100,000 Barrels of Oil a Day - Is this the start of Armageddon?

[UPDATE :: Thursday, 10, 2010] Time-Standard's Headline today:

Uncounted ballots leave races uncertain; some 6,000 uncounted votes have host of races hanging in Humboldt County

The newspaper's secondary heading says: “Some 6,000 uncounted votes have host of races hanging.”

The paper reports that Humboldt County Registrar of Voters Carolyn Crnich says,

“With other pressing election requirements, Crnich couldn't say with certainty when the ballots will be tallied and added to Tuesday night's total.” She continues: “We have 29 days (under the law) and this is day one,” Crnich said. “But, I'm hoping to have them done in the next week or two.”

So, what is everyone supposed to do while Ms. Crnich takes care of “other pressing election requirement”? What's more “pressing” than counting the votes. No doubt, if there wasn't a law setting some date, who knows when these votes would be counted. She is gracious though, she splits the difference or so she says.

This is just another glaring example of a “Humpty Dumpty” government official serving their own self-interests while trying to make everyone believe how efficient and responsible they are serving our interest. That's all the public's interests. Those that vote and those that choose not to vote by ballot.

The most telling statement in Crnich's set of priorities, after explaining her "pressing" requirements" that are secondary to the purpose of elections, is: "The idea is to err on the side of caution and to ensure no one is denied the right to vote because of a mistake." Whose mistakes is she worrying about? This is a typical of the effeminate bent in administrative thinking that hamstrings everyone. Did Kermit dump Humpty off the wall again?

[UPDATE II :: Friday, June 11, 2010]

Another Humpty-Dumpty manifests at Humboldt Herald: “NCJ on the DUI” - A small excerpt:

In case you missed it, North Coast Journal editor Hank Sims gives his 2 pence on 5th District Supervisor candidate Ryan Sundberg’s DUI.  He even touches ever so slightly on the major media failure to bring this important information to the voters.

Read the Comments – That's where the story is.

[UPDATE :: Tuesday, June 15, 2010]

How the local corrupt elite work is referenced by the Humboldt Herald at The Reporta where the real meat of the issue is laid out nicely. - You need to read the comments in both blogs to really get the whole picture of how sick the local system is, from the voter to those voted in.

--Joe