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CONWEBBLOG IS NOTING WHERE JOSEPH "WORLDNETDAILY" FARAH IS STARTING TO GET PARANOID, even if it means resorting to devious, illicit and questionable pseudo-journalistic tactics to make sure the Fourth Estate (or what remains of it) kowtows to him and him alone, reinforced by the one command he knows--OBEY:

Joseph Farah's Oct. 31 WorldNetDaily column is another whine-fest about how the rest of the media is being mean to WND over the birther issue, and this time he's issuing threats:

I believe I have been far too kind to my colleagues in the rest of the media.

I have been playing Mr. Nice Guy.

Well, Mr. Nice Guy has been around this business for 30 years and knows where a lot of bodies are buried.

And if I have to redirect some of my attention toward reporting on the media, I will do it.

Consider that a warning.

Consider this a shot across the bow.

Uh, when has Farah ever been nice?

Well, to people who hold his same far-right views, sure--see WND's Orly Taitz protection racket. But this is a man who condones the murder of adulterers and advocates censorship through the return of the Hollywood blacklist. As we've detailed, Farah in 2004 described John Kerry as "a privileged rich boy," "traitorous," "rotten to the core," and, of course, "truly dangerous ... truly contemptuous ... truly egomaniacal ... truly without character ... truly transparent as a political huckster and charlatan." Oh, and he called an Obama White House adviser "toga head."

This is "Mr. Nice Guy"?

What set Farah off this time was Bill O'Reilly talking about birthers:

There was pompous old Bill O'Reilly again this week attacking one of his favorite targets–"birthers."

He had two guests on with him – neither one cognizant of the facts surrounding the Barack Obama eligibility questions. Both of them happily nodded in agreement to most of the tripe emanating from O'Reilly's big, ill-informed mouth.

Night after night, show after show, network after network this goes on.

This is journalism?

Whatever happened to "fair and balanced"?

Whatever happened to getting other points of view?

Whatever happened to the idea of interviewing those with whom you disagree?

Whatever happened to the notion of representing honestly the opinions of others?

I'm getting flat-out sick of it.

Really? If so, Farah might want to keep his reporters and columnists (and himself) from engaging in those very same behaviors. As we've detailed, WND's articles are not "fair and balanced," and its reporters frequently do not gather other points of view. Nor does it honestly represent the opinions of others, as, John Holdren and Chai Feldblum, among others, know all too well.

Needless to say, a few paragraphs after he whines about "representing honestly the opinions of others," Farah misrepresents facts, complaining that "Not one of these cable networks, let alone the Associated Press, New York Times, Los Angeles Times or the major networks, has reported the significance of the fact that Michelle Obama admitted her mother-in-law gave birth out of wedlock." But that's not what she did--An Oct. 27 WND article by Aaron Klein dug up a quote of Michelle Obama saying "during a July 2008 round table at the University of Missouri" that Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, "was very young and very single when she had him." That's not the admission Obama was born "out of wedlock" Farah portrays it as or even "contradicted previous claims President Obama made about the circumstances of his birth,": as Klein writes, since it could also describe that Dunham was estranged from her husband at the time. Farah and Klein have simply chosen to interpret it that way.

Farah seems to be oblivious to the fact that petulant screeds like this and sloppy, biased reporting--on top of Farah's inability to handle criticism--are precisely the reason why WND isn't treated with respect, nor does he seem to realize that there are other reasons as well, such as repeatedly reporting lies as fact.

Then again, maybe Farah does know this, and refuses to acknowledge it publicly for fear of becoming even more discredited. Either way, it's not a way to earn the respect he so desperately craves.

And it's no wonder that WorldNetDaily is not held in such high esteem by such among the Greater Blogosphere who values sanity and the freedom of the (virtual) press, when you get right down to it. It's become as if Mr. Farah, oblivious to the loss of credibility when it comes to his (supposed) Pride and Joy in the Information Stuporbahn, has started to become his own worst joke, forcing him to play the schoolyard bully in what may be a last desperate move to save what he sees as his Good Name and Repute.

And wants to stop @ nothing, Joe McCarthy-stylee, to make sure he gets his way, no matter how filthy, obscene, vile, disgusting, putrid, loathsome or scandalous it may be. (Come to think of it, about the only advertising WorldNetDaily can attract is from rather disreputable channels, the sort no mainstream online news site is willing to accept lest their good name and repute be compromised.)

In any case, WorldNetDaily needs to be told for once these same words as were the ruin of this supposed hero of Joseph Farah's: "Have you no sense of Decency, Sir, @ long last? Have you left no sense of Decency?"

The which WND would likely respond to by quoting Nietzsche's "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." (As if--!)

And how much longer before Farah turns to Al Cohol, Mary Jane Weaver, Auntie Em and/or Doctor White for inspiration and story ideas, if this isn't exactly the case already?

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J. EDGAR HOOVER MUST PROBABLY BE SPINNING IN HIS GRAVE @ THE CONGRESSIONAL CEMETERY IN WASHINGTON, DC (AND LAUGHING ALL THE WHILE) when he hears the news that certain weird and unwholesome circles are claiming that the FBI is "recommending" that people start watching Glenn Beck and listening to conservative talkback radio "if you want to know The Truth."

(The which Your Correspondent learned about on News Hounds, in case you ask.)

Sadly, though, the FBI disagrees: Your Correspondent actually called the Minneapolis office thereof (as has jurisdiction over these parts where he's based) to check on the rumor just yesterday, and the Duty Agent hath it that:

1. the FBI was unaware of the claim until I had brought it up to him; and
2. further, the FBI has a very strict policy against the endorsement, approval or recommendation of any company, product, service or person.

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EVEN IF THIS WERE HALLOWE'EN, NOT TO MENTION THIS BEING THE CHANGEOVER WEEKEND FROM SUMMER TO STANDARD TIME IN THE UNTED STATES AND CANADA (with Certain Obvious Exceptions), Your Correspondent perhaps felt it was time to devote today's edition to a "pre-emptive" edition of the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's) for this blog.

Especially considering where there are some of you as probably have questions about Your Correspondent and The Exaggerator as are going through your head that "need to be asked" for once.

I'll try my best to fill this need on your part, and I hope you'll be satisfied with the result. Shall we proceed?

• What motivates you to blog as you do?
  I would have to say my upbringing, and the abuses I was made to ensure throughout. Thanks to a diagnosis of dyslexia brought about by a pre-natal auto accident as injured my mother seriously, I was placed in a succession of institutional and, later, foster-care situations from age six on until my high-school graduation in 1980 (never mind where some heckler shouted "Johnny Wadd!" in the audience as I was about to receive my diploma). It was an upbringing as saw me facing one mindset which expected me to look the other way @ the injustices around me (and pretend such cannot be expected to exist), while concurrently encountering another which held that such needed action being taken.
  Especially fuelling this desire to blog was an extended referral by the Minnesota Vocational Rehabilitation (VR)--basically a formality for the disabled, including such with learning disorders like myself--of my case for jobs training and evaluation interstate (i.e., to a testing facility in Menomonie, WI and a sheltered workshop in Eau Claire, same state), never mind where suitable facilities probably existed in Minnesota (howbeit in "bad neighbourhoods" of Minneapolis); flashbacks of abuse suffered @ a foster home I was resident in just prior to graduation from high school led to a referral to the local Day Treatment scheme in Eau Claire whose mentality was a "fight-fire-with-fire" approach in dealing with "schizophrenia," especially the paranoid sort. One which had parallels to the Oceanic mindset in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty Four (disapproved of by the Day Treatment counsellors as "too depressing [and] paranoid," reinforced with advice that I Attend Church Sunday), complete with frequent claims of "spies," "men in white coats," "schizophrenic germs" and "parasitic agents" in therapy sessions, not to mention some Bad Words Unbecoming Those in Positions of Authority, Confidence and Trust.
  In any event, Day Treatment's approach and mindset were all the more serious enough to cause serious psychoemotional harm precluding any likelihood of useful and gainful employment, notwithstanding two subsequent attempts @ employment in the sheltered-workshop system (in one such instance, I was expected to say that "emotional well-being", rather than money, explained the need for working there), following my being moved back to Winona in the fall of 1981. And still the "troublemaker" tag kept following me, even extending to suggestions that my "tattling" was directly to blame for the closing of the local Orphanage in 1976 when, in fact, changing attitudes towards treatment of problem children were in part responsible therefor.
• Did you have prior blogging experience?
  I will admit that, when I was in middle and high school, I had fantasies and designs on launching a gazetta of my very own, the better so I could channel my own thoughts to the widest possible audience. Money, however, was pretty much the problem precluding it.
  But with the increasing awareness of the Internet in the mid- to late 1990's, as well as public access computers being available in such venues as the Winona State University biblio, I decided to launch what I considered an "online column" of sorts through Homestead, one of the first free website services, as allowed me to express my take on things online. I called it "It's Another Prozac Morning in America," and I had it from the summer of 1999 until late in 2001, when changes in Homestead's modus operandi incompatible with public computers put an end to that.
  In response, I decided to launch on Freewebz my first true blog in the sense of the term, which I called "the daily phosdex" (after a nom d'Internet I use, "IludiumPhosdex," for the sake of privacy). That went swimmingly for a few years, but when a few online "purists" and Niedermeyr types started complaining about the "ratty" appearence of the site, I decided to move "the daily phosdex" to a straight blogging platform.
  Especially so the sort as allows for making extra money (or trying to) in supplementing the disability benefits I get, especially as it's unlikely that I would be coming into money within measurable distance. (It still seems to be that way.) And Blogdrive.com, warts and all from time to time, happened to provide the ideal such I needed.
  By the fall of 2007, when, thanks to the generosity of Winona State, I was able to finally get my very own computer and Internet access @ my flat in the Shaffner Homes here in Winona (where I've been resident for 25 years when the New Year rolls around), "the daily phosdex" began getting a repute, thanks to its "ratty" looks of largely courtesy linkbacks, as "Worst. Weblog. Ever." In any case, I decided to give up on "the daily phosdex" and, shortly after Christmas 2007, started anew with this blog you're visiting now.
• What explains the name and stylee of The Exaggerator?
  I acknowledge the influence of the Hanna-Barbera prequel series to Scooby-Doo entitled A Pup Named Scooby-Doo for the name of this blog--specifically, a recurring gag involving a supermarket tabloid in the Weekly World News vein called the "National Exaggerator", which a younger Freddie Jones would quote from on occasion.
  Which gave me an idea to relaunch my blogging presence on the Information Stuporbahn by calling it "The Intergalactic Exaggerator"; however, because Blogdrive caps blog names @ a maximum of 14 characters, I settled on The Exaggerator.
  Now you know.
• What explains the frequent recourse to exotic and esoteric language in your blog items?
  I acknowledge the influence and inspiration here of an older school of newspaper publishers in the early American West, the sort as were rather fond of the flowery sort of writing which, @ times, could cross into the sarcastically acid. Think of my fondness for language as a sort of "safety valve" against the abuse and taunts I was made to endure in a very critical stage of my life, especially in school.
  But perhaps the best way I can think of to explain such recourse to the style I use (without, thankfully, recourse to especially the Seven Dirty Words and their variants) was a T-shirt slogan from about the time of my high-school graduation: "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance ... baffle them with bull."
  In some instances, expecting you, Dear Reader, to consider going to your Funk & Wagnalls (as it were) and looking up the meanings of some of the terms I use--especially in obsolete and archaic senses.
• What about the use of British English on occasion?
  I acknowledge the use of British English terms in the blog from time to time when so-called "common sense" expects me to use American English, and American English Only, because a) I happen to live in America; and b) I should consider America to be The World, and to consider the concept as reversible (i.e., "The World is America") if and when Loyalty and Patriotism dictate this.
  And yes, it is true that there are substantiative differences between the English spoken in our "morally superior" United States and that spoken in a supposedly "morally suspect" Great Britain. But, as for the occasional use of British English, it's to serve as a reminder, for one, that American English has linguistic roots in the British, just as much as the first specimens of British settlement @ Jamestown and the none-too-successful Popham Settlement. (Even if quite a few terms of American English, cookie, stoop and cranky among them, have Dutch antecedants; credit that to the Dutch settlement @ New Amsterdam, which we now know as New York.)
  And, for another, that "it's a small world, after all."
  In other words, we need to stop looking exclusively in terms of a "Fortress America" mindset and, instead, see in terms of what the late Wendell Willkie called "One World."
• Have you ever been on the "It's a Small World" ride @ Disneyland or Walt Disney World?
  I plead guilty as charged.
  Specifically, I visited the original such @ Disneyland in the summer of 1979 as part of a family vacation otherwise marred by abuse, teasing and cruelty involving foster-siblings I was living with, targeting me in particular. I took the Guided Tour option, and "It's a Small World" was one of the featured distractions (along with the Santa Fe and Disneyland Railroad, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Bear Country Jamboree and the Tomorrowland People Mover).
  The memory thereof has been a longtime guiding influence of my blogging experience and its editorial mindset in calling for us otherwise "morally superior" Americans to stop seeing things in an exclusively xenophobic mindset and be world-centric for once.
• How do you consider Americans to be "morally superior" to all others?
  I use that term for purely ironic and sarcastic reasons, particularly the sort targeting the uber-conservative Zealots and True Believers whose mindset of America is probably on the same page as Imperial China in its decline, particularly so under the opium-addicted and @ once xenophobic influence of the Empress Dowager Cixi.
  (As in seeing especially the Forbidden City in Beijing--specifically, the Palace of Cloudless Heaven--to be The One True Portal and Gateway to Heaven. You may want to Netflix The Last Emperor for the complete story.)
  Fox Prolefeed and kin in particular.
  The same thinking likewise explains my use of the second line of the English version of the Canadian National Hymn, "O Canada" (as in "True Patriot Love in All Thy Sons Command") on occasion vis-a-vis appeals to a rather crude and base form of patriotism as crosses the line into jingoistic excess, or otherwise risks it. (The second line in the French version thereof is "Ton front est ceint des fleurons glorieux!", which came out in the first attempt to translate same into English as "Thy brow is crowned with leaves of red and gold!").
• Why don't you get a "real" job for once, and learn to keep your mouth shut and nose clean?
  As I explained early on, I went through extreme psychoemotional abuse and torment while under the Day Treatment Programme in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, and to such an extent that serious emotional harm, anguish and cruelty persist to this day.
  Persisting to such an extent that it precludes my ability to find viable work that would, in your simplistic mindset, "make you learn to use your hands rather than your mind," especially before "serious error" ensues as could "pose problems."
  As explains my being on Social Security disability benefit and Supplemental Security Income, which, as everyone knows, can only go so far (especially before you come into money, which seems, as I said, to be all the more unlikely within measurable distance). But then again, considering where the "safety net" could easily fail, I decided, out of necessity, to include online shopping in this blog, as well as an opportunity to make a donation (regardless of amount) to the cause of this weblog and Your Correspondent. (I should mention that, unfortunately, donations in aid of The Exaggerator do not qualify for tax deductions.)
  When it comes to my e-boutique, The Exaggerator Collection (as powered by CafePress.com), I conceived of it as a way to not just supplement the income stream, but also as a sort of "walking billboard" promoting this blog; i.e., when you see anyone wearing anything bearing this weblog's name and logo, I hope you'll think of this blog (and maybe do a Google on the same). Not unlike the signs and bumper stickers of Wall Drug and the shopping bags of Stew Leonard's, which, I acknowledge, were indirect inspiration for the whole idea of ephemeral apparel being ur-billboards (especially so in the tackiest of tourist trap communities).
• What explains your interest in Reducing the National Debt of the United States as a Good Cause worth donating part of the proceeds from online shopping towards?
  With so much having been discussed in especially recent years about the size and extent thereof, as well as prevailing mindsets in certain Washington circles still playing by the canard of "low taxes = jobs = prosperity = social stability and order" as has otherwise been discredited in more logical circles (and still holding same dear as an article of faith as will Save America From Herself)--not to mention continued and continuing ex-lax on the issue, presumably "for political reasons"--I, for one, felt that it was time that someone who offered shopping in the Greater Blogosphere considered pledging part of the proceeds therefrom (if any) towards reducing the National Debt.
  (Which, in fact, is actually possible; click here to find out how.)
  As if that weren't enough, I've also called upon "the Four Hundred"--the traditional arbeiters of wealth and power, or so we're expected to believe (and defer to in the name of Natural Law and the Order of Nature, or so we're expected to believe)--to "do their part" in making contributions towards the National Debt's reduction absent the prospect of outright repudiation or cancellation, or such being refinanced through (theoretically) gold-backed debt securities for which the vaults @ Fort Knox may not have enough such as collateral without having to dispose of substantial quantities thereof, thereby "destabilising" or otherwise "undermining" the gold markets and such among the weird and unwholesome who profit therefrom.
  Soooo: In planning your holiday shopping (which, considering the rising gas price of late, you may want to consider doing more of on the Information Stuporbahn), think about online shopping with a conscience--as in the Greater Collective Good of the Nation being aided by ameiloration and relief of the National Debt, for one, absent any serious initiatives towards those ends as would have Serious Political Consequences in Certain Powerful and Influential Circles, especially so the conservative such.
• Where did you get the idea of calling the Internet the "Information Stuporbahn"?
  I acknowledge the influence of the Nickelodeon animated series The Fairly OddParents, specifically the episode entitled "Information Stuporhighway." Combine that with "Infobahn" (an early buzzword for the Internet from around the mid-1990's), and you get "Information Stuporbahn."
  It's a way to add colour to a Greater Blogosphere as is otherwise expected to be dull and otherwise show monochromatic blandness (cf. this classic specimen of "Engrish" from an envelope used by a Japanese film-processing laboratory to return finished photographs: "Fresh fruit enriches everyone. Takes the thrist out of everyday time. A pure whiff of oxygen, painting over a monochrome world in primary colours. We all like that. It's why everyone loves fruit.").
• Where did you get the name "IludiumPhosdex"?
  I came across it in the Loony Tunes animated short Duck Dodgers in the 24˝th Century, vintage 1951. (Daffy Duck plays a rather bombastic parody of Buck Rodgers, hero of a science-fiction-themed comic strip still popular @ that time; same is also remembered as one of the first run-ins Daffy has with Marvin the Martian.)

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READER, YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED A TENDENCY ON THIS BLOG FOR YOUR CORRESPONDENT TO REFER TO FOX NEWS CHANNEL AS "FOX PROLEFEED" and its companion "free-enterprise-as-Great-White-Father" channel, Fox Business, as "Fox Prolefeed II."

And the reason is no doubt obvious: What passes for "news" on Fox News is really little more than what the Oceanic police state of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four called "prolefeed"--news and information that, by deliberate design, was meant to be false, inaccurate or misleading, or otherwise create unnecessary disappointment.

And was deliberately streamed to the "proles" (as in the rank-and-file masses) for the sole purpose of their pacification in line with the Party's line that proles were (in Orwell's words) "natural inferiors, like animals, who needed to be kept controlled by the application of a few simple rules."

Which brings to mind where Fox Prolefeed has recently acknowledged that it airs only nine hours of serious news in the course of a typical weekday's programme, leaving you and I wondering about the other 15 such.

Leave it to none other than Jon "Daily Show" Stewart to explain it all for you, demonstrating once again that satirists are sometimes closer to the truth than we care to acknowledge:

(In any case, a gimme-cap tip to RawStory.com for the video.)

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IT NOW APPEARS AS IF THE WHOLE "BIRTHER" MOVEMENT IS NOW IN CRASH-AND-BURN MODE thanks to yesterday's ruling by a Federal judge in California dismissing yet another Frivolous, Vexatious and/or Tortious Challenge to the legitimacy of Barack Hussein Obama being the 44th President of Our Morally-Superior United States for lack of "satisfactory evidence" to establish the Constitutional Qualification that the President be "native born."

Especially disturbing to the judge, in handing down the ruling, was evidence that one Orly Taitz, the Pontifex Maximus (as it were) of the whole obnoxious exercise, was coaching "witnesses" in the expected trial on the testimony to be given with the effect of condoning perjury.

Even more destructive, let it be hoped, will be the likelihood of disbarment actions pending before the California State Bar against Ms. Taitz, whose whole exercises in connexion with the whole "birther" agenda (which she expects us all to see as a "preemptive" action "before Our Holy and Beloved Nation sees serious and dangerous harm to Our Antient and Peculiar Sovereignty and Sovereign Identity," as the patsy will go) have prompted @ least one complaint.

Might I suggest the Bar also look into whether Ms. Taitz' legal qualifications are of dubious nature (as in coming from some class of an online "diploma mill" awarding "degrees" based on "life experience") so as to cause scandal and disgrace to the profession as much as to Our National Identity which Taitz claims to be "protecting" all this while.

(But then again, such a suggestion is nothing new: Back in 1930, it will be recalled that the Kansas State Board of Medical Examiners revoked the right of Dr. John R. Brinkley to practice medicine [as in Toggenberg goat-gland implants in the name of "rejuvenation"] out of Milford for, among other reasons, Pretending to Medical Skill by virtue of a "diploma" procured from the "Kansas City Eclectic Medical College," a notorious "diploma mill" in furtherance of medical quackery. This on top of the then-Federal Radio Commission's enquiries into Brinkley's associated radio station KFKB ["Kansas' First, Kansas' Best" or "Kansas Folk Know Better"] for Excessive Self-Promotion. In turn, prompting Doc Brinkley's legendary and yet unsuccessful write-in electoral campaign for Governor on the Republican ticket.)

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IT WOULD BE HARD TO IMAGINE WHETHER WE'RE STILL SEEING THE SORT OF HALLOWE'EN PRANKS RECALLED BY MOTHERDEAR when she was growing up near Osnabrock, North Dakota in the 1920's and 1930's, among them:

• Putting horse collars on the cows to confuse them ahead of milking time.
• Hoisting a horse-drawn sleigh to the rooftop of the local hardware and general store.
• Toppling over outhouses (she recalls in particular one such as was behind the bank in Osnabrock being removed one Hallowe'en).

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IS IT JUST ME, OR HAVE PROBLEMS CONTINUED ENSUING ON THE SERVERS AS POWER BLOGDRIVE.COM to the point where new postings aren't exactly displaying in the blog proper in timely manner?

As explained previously, the head honcho with Blogdrive (which is a four-person operation, know) explained to moi that there had been some issues on the server hard drives @ the host servers to the point of problems ensuing during much of the day, and that due effort was being made to rectify such.

So, if you can timely see this posting, please e-mail me or otherwise tweet me in Twitter to make sure we're on the same page, as it were. Otherwise, continued and continuing apologies for any problems as are outside my direct control, understand.

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AND MEANWHILE, ON TWITTER, the ratio of followers to Twitters I follow is now 2:1 in favour of the latter, in case you ask. Isn't Twitter wonderful, even with the occasional retweets of Secular-Progressive news fodder?

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IF YOU CAN SEE THIS, PLEASE LET ME KNOW BY E-MAIL OR TWEET ME UP IN TWITTER POSTHASTE; for some reason or another, some problems in the server hard drives on Blogdrive.com's end have caused delays in the most recent postings displaying in a timely manner.

And despite reassurances that the problem was being worked on, it seems as if the posting scheduled previous isn't yet displayed. Hence, this apology of sorts, to make sure you're still "in the loop," so to speak.

As if that weren't enough, the principal behind Blogdrive.com has been going through some health issues of late, precluding his being able to answer my comments and answer my problem tickets in a timely fashion; nonetheless, be assured that he's doing his best, what with only four people in toto working with Blogdrive and a number of improvements in the pipleline. That, and Blogdrive's willingness to remain an independent company in the face of a growing cartel mindset vis-a-vis the Information Stuporbahn.

In any event, the problems in the immediate display of postings are beyond my immediate and direct control, for which Your Correspondent apologises if any inconvenience was suffered. So, if you're able to see this displayed @ my blog, I would welcome your letting me know, as explained @ the start of this post.

Nonetheless, thanks for your continued and continuing support. (As a matter of fact, I'd appreciate some of it coming from the online shopping section, especially with the holiday gifting season approaching.)

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