Fare the well, Anna. Your insightful and beautifully-written posts will be missed. Also gone: Obo The Slog CF & now (but hopefully not) OH What is happening? Just because Brown's dysfunctional & mendacious gang have gone does not mean all's well again. We need more bloggers with good links & insider information (especially like John Ward) to expose the wrong-doings, which continue unabated.
Anna Raccoon was the first blog I looked at every day. She was the candle in the darkness. I'm sad she has departed the blogosphere but equally happy to read she is spending her time doing what she wants to do, that's libertarianism in action.
Sir is not happy, not happy at all. She is not the only one to depart recently who were well informed and did not mind taking a swipe at something or someone that richly deserved it. What is worrying is that it is some of the better informed and more incisive blogs that tend to be targeted. Good luck to the cubs.
I have just read her parting post on: http://grumpyoldtwat.blogspot.com/2010/10/final-words-of-anna-raccoon.html
I feel awful for her. I also feel awful for me, I loved that blog, the standard was phenomenal. It was gold, pure gold. Anna herself was commentator without equal. That easily applies to all the paid journalists and commentators. She was their better by far.
She was a truly brilliant blogger and I’m sure a wonderful human being. Her writing was fluid and engaging her points sharp, her messages deep. Oh how I would love to be able to write like her. Oh how privileged I was to be able to read her while I did.
The left and its hate, its vile twisted unhand rot. They have claimed a scalp, as they undermine so many. Delingpole has a great piece out at the moment about how one hater spent years twisting 5,428 Wikipedia entries to remove truth, and subvert the message: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100059077/professor-hal-lewis-is-not-an-irrelevant-senile-old-fool/
But these people cannot stamp out right-minded thinking, the truth. Because although at any British school and every time we turn on the BBC we are actively brainwashed to the opposite. But right-minded thinking is instinctive. We love people like Anna because she so eloquently wrote about that which we know to be true.
If there was something I could do for Anna I would. Tragically I do not think there is so instead I shall be reading her cached article lamenting it will be decades at least until us libertarians have another of her quality to write what we feel.
Good. All hail Ms. Raccoon, and may shit thunder down from the heavens above on those who drove her away.
ReplyDeleteFare the well, Anna. Your insightful and beautifully-written posts will be missed.
ReplyDeleteAlso gone:
Obo
The Slog
CF
& now (but hopefully not) OH
What is happening? Just because Brown's dysfunctional & mendacious gang have gone does not mean all's well again. We need more bloggers with good links & insider information (especially like John Ward) to expose the wrong-doings, which continue unabated.
It should have said Thee of course!
ReplyDeleteBless you SN, ED P.
Will miss you, Anna, you have my sincere respect.
ReplyDeleteAnna Raccoon was the first blog I looked at every day. She was the candle in the darkness. I'm sad she has departed the blogosphere but equally happy to read she is spending her time doing what she wants to do, that's libertarianism in action.
ReplyDeleteSir is not happy, not happy at all. She is not the only one to depart recently who were well informed and did not mind taking a swipe at something or someone that richly deserved it. What is worrying is that it is some of the better informed and more incisive blogs that tend to be targeted. Good luck to the cubs.
ReplyDeletePoetry corner....>
ReplyDeleteSo,
Farewell then
Anna Raccoon
Your posts were wistful
And inciteful
And empassioned
You were hounded
By smaller
And more feeble minds
You are gone
But not forgotten
...ever...
(E.J.Thribb, aged 11)
I doubt that the Private Eye will publish this, even though they nick some of my other stuff!
How sad that mindless net-thugs drove away one of the very best bloggers on the net.
ReplyDeleteBastards.
Fare thee well, Anna.
ReplyDeleteI have just read her parting post on: http://grumpyoldtwat.blogspot.com/2010/10/final-words-of-anna-raccoon.html
ReplyDeleteI feel awful for her. I also feel awful for me, I loved that blog, the standard was phenomenal. It was gold, pure gold. Anna herself was commentator without equal. That easily applies to all the paid journalists and commentators. She was their better by far.
She was a truly brilliant blogger and I’m sure a wonderful human being. Her writing was fluid and engaging her points sharp, her messages deep. Oh how I would love to be able to write like her. Oh how privileged I was to be able to read her while I did.
The left and its hate, its vile twisted unhand rot. They have claimed a scalp, as they undermine so many. Delingpole has a great piece out at the moment about how one hater spent years twisting 5,428 Wikipedia entries to remove truth, and subvert the message: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100059077/professor-hal-lewis-is-not-an-irrelevant-senile-old-fool/
But these people cannot stamp out right-minded thinking, the truth. Because although at any British school and every time we turn on the BBC we are actively brainwashed to the opposite. But right-minded thinking is instinctive. We love people like Anna because she so eloquently wrote about that which we know to be true.
If there was something I could do for Anna I would. Tragically I do not think there is so instead I shall be reading her cached article lamenting it will be decades at least until us libertarians have another of her quality to write what we feel.
I am bereft. I loved that Raccoon site, I did. I'd have given that Raccoon my last Werther's Original, I would.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't managed to read Anna's site as regularly as i'd have liked, lately, i will miss it a lot.
ReplyDeleteI would have given her my last rolo !