tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post3239306088280892763..comments2023-10-17T08:19:58.196-04:00Comments on FreeThinke: FreeThinkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-34137467287794973142012-07-21T12:20:20.025-04:002012-07-21T12:20:20.025-04:00Also sprach Jack Camwell.
What are your REAL reas...<b>Also sprach Jack Camwell.</b><br /><br />What are your REAL reasons for arguing so passionately, Jack? Do you REALLY believe what you're saying, or do you just like to argue for arguments' sake? I honestly can't tell.<br /><br />~ FT<br /><br />PS: Thanks for stopping by. - FTFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-38307459301312660652012-07-21T10:05:14.708-04:002012-07-21T10:05:14.708-04:00WHo agressed whom? I believe the guys in Fort Sum...WHo agressed whom? I believe the guys in Fort Sumter fired on the Union ship.<br /><br />And do you know the Constitutional argument AGAINST secession?<br /><br />In case you don't, it has to do with the preamble. The secession states said that since the states entered into the contract of the Constitution, they had the right to exit. But Lincoln's argument said that it wasn't the states that entered into the contract . . . it was the people.<br /><br />The preamble states "We the people . . ." not "We the states . . ." So the states had no real right to seceed.<br /><br />And as you said in your argument, there were a lot of innocent people--many of whom probably would not have wanted to seceeed in the first place--who were killed at the hands of total war. SO do you really think the "people" would have opted for secession and war? I doubt it.<br /><br />And yes, my comparisons were totally fine because I compared Lincoln to other presidents who resorted to killing innocents to winning a war. Harry Truman ordered 2 atomic bombs to be dropped on Japan, bombs that killed thousands of innocent men, women, and children and affected them for generations to come because of the radiation.<br /><br />FDR was totally fine with revenge bombing German cities. How many innocent Germans were killed for that?<br /><br />And self-determination is a pretty ridiculous argument, given the South was trying to self-determine their ability to keep their slaves from exercising any form of real self-determination.<br /><br />When your motives are hypocritical, any nobility your arguments might hold goes completely out the window.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-64457544117514098502012-07-20T16:14:03.773-04:002012-07-20T16:14:03.773-04:00What was he SUPPOSED to do, Jack?
ALLOW PEOPLE th...What was he SUPPOSED to do, Jack?<br /><br /><b>ALLOW PEOPLE their CONSTITUTIONALLY GUARANTEED RIGHT of <i>SELF</i>-DETERMINATION</b>.<br /><br />There was no AGGRESSION on the part of the southern states. Those people did nothing to THREATEN the lives or the PROPERTY of their northern neighbors.<br /><br />There is no parallel at all with FDR and Harry Truman. You're comparing baseball bats with badminton racquets -- or footballs with shuttlecocks, if you prefer.<br /><br /><b>SIX-HUNDRED-THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND men DIED, countless others were maimed, blinded, wounded deprived of their property, and countless thousands of women and children were made POVERTY-STRICKEN WIDOWS and ORPHANS by Lincoln's MANIACAL exercise of illegitimate power.</b><br /><br />Lincoln was no hero. He was a MONSTER. <br /><br />You've just been brainwashed like everyone else into accepting the unacceptable as "heroic."<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-82439294507883749432012-07-20T11:38:17.420-04:002012-07-20T11:38:17.420-04:00FT I think you are vastly misinterpreting history ...FT I think you are vastly misinterpreting history on this one.<br /><br />The South was threatening secession well before Lincoln, and it was Lincoln's election that began to push them over the edge. Lincoln repeated, time and again, in the beginning of his administration that he did not want to stop slavery (out of fear of secession).<br /><br />Lincoln was right when he gave his house divided speech. The country could not have remained half-slave and half-free forever. If it didn't happen on his watch, it would have happened on someone else's.<br /><br />Lincoln's argument against the constitutionality of secession was logically correct, and he was well within his right to quell the rebellion.<br /><br />Was Lincoln's total war policy prudent? I don't know. If we're going to condemn him for it, then we may as well condemn Harry Truman and FDR for World War II (the big bombs, and then the revenge bombings of German cities).<br /><br />I would not condemn the man for navigating through such a crazy shit storm. What was he SUPPOSED to do?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-18470722598137729582012-07-20T07:34:00.733-04:002012-07-20T07:34:00.733-04:00What ARE you trying to say, Ducky?
Do you conside...What ARE you trying to say, Ducky?<br /><br />Do you consider Stinkin' Lincoln as one "the elites?"<br /><br />As is so often the case , you either miss -- or choose to ignore -- the point of the post.<br /><br />The Civil War was NOT about freeing the slaves. It was an immoral exercise designed to enhance the economic interests and promote the ascendancy of vested northern interests.<br /><br />Dishonest Abe was just a tool bought and paid for -- like all politicians.<br /><br />IDealism had no part in the the thing.<br /><br />~ FreeThinke<br /><br />PS: And who mentioned mint juleps on the veranda? Certainly not I! - FTFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-26283327996123769602012-07-20T07:26:47.182-04:002012-07-20T07:26:47.182-04:00Ms. Shaw!
You can't seriously want to equate ...Ms. Shaw!<br /><br />You can't seriously want to equate yourself with Eternal Damnation now can you?<br /><br />No conservative I know would ever concur with that assessment of your character.<br /><br />Thanks for visiting. Please keep coming back. Who knows -- someday I might say something you find appealing. ;-)<br /><br />All the best,<br /><br />FreeThinkeFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-31020359072521802342012-07-20T07:23:05.846-04:002012-07-20T07:23:05.846-04:00We have a Ruth's Chris not far from where I li...We have a Ruth's Chris not far from where I live, AOW, but to tell you the truth, even after being here for fifteen years I have yet to have "The Ruth's Chris Experience," myself.<br /><br />I do wonder if it could possibly be so good as to justify the exorbitant cost?<br /><br />Maybe we'll both get the chance to find out one of these days.<br /><br />Something to look forward to ...<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-30039813982223925272012-07-19T16:15:11.684-04:002012-07-19T16:15:11.684-04:00FT,
Hard to believe that others misinterpreted wha...FT,<br />Hard to believe that others misinterpreted what you said here. Ah, well, such is the life of blogging, I guess.<br /><br /><i>a Steak Dinner for you and your Mister at the Ruth's Chris Steakhouse nearest you</i><br /><br />I know where one is, but have never been there. **wink**Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-24975060916501104722012-07-19T09:11:36.956-04:002012-07-19T09:11:36.956-04:00Was Lincoln strong? Was he brilliant? Was he one o...Was Lincoln strong? Was he brilliant? Was he one of the most astonishing figures in History?<br /><br />ABSOLUTELY!<br /><br />Was he "good?" Was he noble? Was he wise? Was he kind? Does he deserve canonization?<br /><br />ABSOLUTELY NOT!<br /><br />What we think of as Abraham Lincoln is a <i>product</i> -- a fabrication of image makers -- not a man.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-12625693253493974742012-07-19T08:40:41.829-04:002012-07-19T08:40:41.829-04:00I find the comparison between Cleopatra to Mary Su...I find the comparison between Cleopatra to Mary Surratt a bit strained, Thersites.<br /><br />After all Cleo had the privilege of quietly clasping an asp to her bosom and presumably died in the dignity of her privacy.<br /><br />Poor Mary on the other hand suffered rough treatment, great discomfort and much indignity before she was publicly hanged before jeering throngs along with other members of the conspiracy. <i>[Yes, Virginiatann, conspiracies really do exist. ;-]</i><br /><br /><b>I've always thought it a hideous irony that Mrs. Suratt was shielded by her executioners with an umbrella to protect her from the burning rays of the hot summer sun while she stood on the platform waiting to be hanged with a bag over her head</b> placed there as a courtesy to crowd so their delicate sensibilities would not be offended as her eyes rolled helplessly and bulged out of her head, her skin turned purple and her facial features were otherwise distorted by the agony of her death throes.<br /><br />In my never humble opinion Lincoln got just what he deserved. Mrs. Suratt did not.<br /><br />The only person directly connected to the sorry saga of the Lincoln presidency I've ever felt sorry for was Mary Todd Lincoln surely one of the saddest, most pathetic victims of circumstance who ever lived.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-5067901345452842902012-07-19T08:16:38.710-04:002012-07-19T08:16:38.710-04:00Is it truly "sic semper tyrannis," Thers...Is it truly <i>"sic semper tyrannis,"</i> Thersites, or is it merely further proof that like it or not <b>"Might makes right?"</b><br /><br />Most people who think about these things at all shy away from the admission that latter is probably the truest interpretation of the resolution of most conflicts, but I cannot.<br /><br />History is written by the victors not the losers. Isn't it perfectly natural that they would tend to portray themselves in the most favorable light?<br /><br />Elementary, Watson. Elementary!<br /><br />Has there ever been a case where enlightened wisdom and truth prevailed over brute force?<br /><br />If so, I'd like to know about it.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-87333000636058312252012-07-19T08:08:08.453-04:002012-07-19T08:08:08.453-04:00Ms. Shaw quoted this sentence out of context:
&qu...Ms. Shaw quoted this sentence out of context:<br /><br /><i>"It is no different today in the United States than it is in Red China or was in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union."</i><br /><br />In what "sense" does Mr. Holland really mean that?<br /><br />Obviously, he could not have intended it to be interpreted <i>literally</i>. He may be guilty of hyperbole, but he's neither stupid nor mentally unbalanced. He's merely challenging orthodox views generated by agenda-driven mythmakers.<br /><br />Literal interpretations are rarely made by bright, sophisticated people, unless they deliberately wear ideological blinders.<br /><br />This game we play of always attributing the worst possible motives to people for whom we feel no natural affinity greatly hampers our chances of ever finding the truth for which so many of us claim to be searching.<br /><br />Of course motives and <i>results</i> may often be at odds, but that's another issue.<br /><br />Using selected "facts" to distort or misrepresent the truth is a plague on the political process. That it is in fact a time-honored practice in now way diminishes its undesirability and infinite capacity to do harm to the body politic.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-71222721634129202602012-07-18T20:15:02.811-04:002012-07-18T20:15:02.811-04:00FT, Damn I just got to preoccupied with Mr. No Nam...FT, Damn I just got to preoccupied with Mr. No Name Anonymous over at my sight and never got back. My bad.<br /><br />But I do appreciate you understanding that while I believe Lincoln was a great leader and effective I also know he was as bonafide a statist as there ever was.<br /><br />Great statists can be great leaders. It doesn't make then right in the ethical or philosophical sense.Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-43438338819821320612012-07-18T18:28:04.793-04:002012-07-18T18:28:04.793-04:00"In my view, more than anything else, Lincoln...<b><i>"In my view, more than anything else, Lincoln exemplified that the end ... justifies the means. <br /><br />Clearly, that is the basis of every tyranny."</i></b><br /><br />CONGRATULATIONS, AOW!<br /><br />You win not only The Gold Medal, but the Silver and the Bronze as well along with a great big beautiful Blue Ribbon, and a Steak Dinner for you and your Mister at the Ruth's Chris Steakhouse nearest you!<br /><br />BRAVO! BRAVO! BRAVO!<br /><br /><b>You GOT the POINT!!!</b><br /><br />WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!<br /><br />Thank God SOMEBODY was thinking straight.<br /><br />You've made my day. I feel <i>vindicated</i>.<br /><br />HALLELUJAH!<br /><br />~ FreeThinke<br /><br />PS: You weren't so dusty, either, Les. ;-)<br /><br /><i>[NOTE: I am not being sarcastic, but I plead guilty to being hyperbolic. How's that for fairness?]</i>FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-83639966991288961132012-07-18T18:02:05.881-04:002012-07-18T18:02:05.881-04:00Silverfiddle said...
Wow. I agree with Shaw. Wow....Silverfiddle said... <br />Wow. I agree with Shaw. Wow.<br /><br /><br />I understand that the Ice Age cometh to hell today.Shaw Kenawehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08637273000409613497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-9468391870060381282012-07-18T17:44:02.070-04:002012-07-18T17:44:02.070-04:00Well that's the way it is with elites, FT.
Th...Well that's the way it is with elites, FT.<br /><br />They screw up the slavery thing and that has to be taken care off at great cost. Then the idiots stick us with the Robber Barons and we had to clean up that mess.<br />Kapital unwinds and we go through a world war and a depression as the Masters screw up again.<br /><br />Made some progress under FDR and the elites screw it up again while you sit back and spout bromides longing for the days of mint juleps on the veranda.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-70724326169867225692012-07-18T16:38:21.428-04:002012-07-18T16:38:21.428-04:00PART TWO
It's true that in this day and age ...PART TWO<br /><br /><br />It's true that in this day and age we no openly cart people away and execute them for speaking against the government, or put them in concentration camps in order to "reeducate" or "reorient" their thinking and thus change their priorities. <br /><br />Oh no! We're far too advanced for anything as crude as that. <br /><br /><b>Instead of imprisonment, torture and mass execution, we now "condition" our citizens to think and believe certain secular doctrines by inundating with an incessant flood of Marxist-Liberal-Progressive propaganda. We do this through movies, pop music, television, newspapers, magazines and our State-Run Educational System which has been ruthlessly pushing Cultural Marxism and the notion that One World Government, where all nations are regarded and treated as equal, must be the Ultimate Aim of an “Enlightened” New World Order.</b><br /><br />We don't NEED concentration camps anymore. Freudian Psychology softened us up along with movies celebrating criminality, adultery, illegitimacy, denigrating religion, glamorizing sin and degradation of all kinds. This soon was followed by "Infotainment," Sex, Drugs Rock 'n Roll, faux Folk "Protest" Songs, Heavy Metal, Rap, and a thoroughly corrupt, debased educational system masquerading as "enlightened," have done a far more effective job of running us into the ground than the Coliseum, Dungeons, the Stake, the Gallows, the Russian Revolution, Auschwitz, and Mao's Takeover of China ever did.<br /><br />Lincoln's assumption of brutal, dictatorial power was not only unconstitutional, it was <i>ungodly</i>.<br /><br />Mr. Holland, despite his admittedly purple prose, is eminently fair. These two paragraphs are the crux of the matter:<br /><br /><br /><i><b>”While Lincoln’s death toll is small in comparison to total deaths by Mao, Lenin, Stalin and Hitler, there are many similarities between these men. In the Russian Civil War, from 1917 - 1922 around 9 million died under Lenin and we must add another 20 million under Stalin from 1929 to 1939. The Mao communist regime in China killed 44 to 70 million Chinese from 1949 – 1975.<br /><br />“Still the US constitutional republic, as established by our founding fathers, was in effect destroyed by Lincoln’s unconstitutional war just as surely as Mao and Lenin overthrew the existing Chinese and Russian governments.”</b></i><br /><br /><br />There’s nothing hyperbolic in any of that. It’s a simple statement of fact.<br /><br /><br />It's most unfortunate that whenever the subject of Lincoln comes up all most people can think of is "HE FREED the SLAVES!" "HE FREED the SLAVES!" "HE FREED the SLAVES!"<br /><br />In truth Lincoln didn't give a rat's rump for Negroes. he thought they were innately stupid and that they smelled bad. His motives were never so pure as those we've been conditioned by a century of myth-making, brainwashing and pseudo-scholarly "hagiography" to ascribe to him. It was never about Freedom, Justice, or even preserving the precious Union. It was -- as <i>always</i> in the realm of politics -- about Money and Power.<br /><br />Bringing the plight of Negro slaves into the argument is a red herring -- just as strident cries of <b>RACISM! RACISM! RACISM!</b> present false reasoning and an egregious lack of logic whenever anyone dares question or criticize the policies advocated by President Obama.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-6247318057556103242012-07-18T16:37:04.502-04:002012-07-18T16:37:04.502-04:00PART ONE
AOW got it. Les got it.
Disappointingly...PART ONE<br /><br />AOW got it. Les got it.<br /><br />Disappointingly, Ms. Shaw and SilverFiddle did <i>not</i> get it. Both get an F for seizing on a phrase or two that irritated their sensibilities -- and at the same affirmed their prejudices regarding a topic they'd obviously much prefer not to address all. Meanwhile, they failed utterly to comprehend the Big Picture -- aka The Point. They followed the typical pattern of letting Passion get in the way of Reason. <br /><br />So BOO to them! ;-)<br /><br />I did not write the article. It may be unfortunate, but in reality style is often as important as content. The author indulged in the use of hyperbolic, inflammatory rhetoric which superficially mars his case, but <i>his thesis is sound</i>. Through sheer force of will -- and, as we learn from Mr. Holland, an allegiance to moneyed interests that corrupted him -- Lincoln functioned not as president so much as dictator, tyrant, and mass murderer. <br /><br />Ms. Shaw made an enormous error in thinking this item was in any way intended primarily as a criticism of President Obama, although parallels with Obama's colossal effrontery and that of several other former post-Lincoln presidents could -- and probably should -- be drawn.<br /><br />(CONTINUED)FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-82661108765271875632012-07-18T14:41:28.251-04:002012-07-18T14:41:28.251-04:00Wow. I agree with Shaw. Wow.Wow. I agree with Shaw. Wow.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-40702239232496169782012-07-18T12:52:57.928-04:002012-07-18T12:52:57.928-04:00Ah yes. I reread it, I missed your point, or jumpe...Ah yes. I reread it, I missed your point, or jumped the gun. Perhaps a bit of both.Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-71165471664486236842012-07-18T12:31:15.041-04:002012-07-18T12:31:15.041-04:00"The man is a lunatic. There is no other comm..."The man is a lunatic. There is no other comment necessary."<br /><br />Is he Shaw? Or is the question just to painful to answer?<br /><br />Les,<br /><br />This is the statement [it isn't a question] I referred to in my comment:<br /><br />"It is no different today in the United States than it is in Red China or was in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union."<br /><br />If the USA were no different than it is in Communist China, or was in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union, no one who opposes President Obama and his policies would be writing on public blogs or anywhere else that he is corrupt and something that comes from the sewer, and still be walking the streets.<br /><br />The person who wrote that nonsense is a lunatic.<br /><br />No one is sitting in prisons or being tortured or sent to the gulag because he disagrees with the president. <br /><br />And there's been no government sponsored Kristalnacht on Latinos or Muslims.<br /><br />That's what I was responding too.<br /><br />The man is a lunatic, and we need to mock people, who are clearly out of their minds, on stupid statements when they make them.Shaw Kenawehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08637273000409613497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-16418930464148680032012-07-18T11:59:12.126-04:002012-07-18T11:59:12.126-04:00"The man is a lunatic. There is no other comm..."The man is a lunatic. There is no other comment necessary."<br /><br />Is he Shaw? Or is the question just to painful to answer?<br /><br />I have always said that Lincoln was perhaps the first true statist President the nation was to elect to that lofty office.<br /><br />Freeing the slaves, the noble result of what was basically a war over regional economics and control aside, Lincoln fought a war with his own countrymen over the right for the south to dissolve it bonds with the north. Much as 13 original colonies did in a not to many years before.<br /><br />It is a viable philosophical argument. One most lack the will to even consider.<br /><br />My comments are offered without judgment, but rather to provoke thought. Personally I'm glad the union survived, and the slaves were freed.Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-85925936560954188052012-07-18T11:17:29.982-04:002012-07-18T11:17:29.982-04:00"It is no different today in the United State..."It is no different today in the United States than it is in Red China or was in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union."<br /><br />The man is a lunatic. There is no other comment necessary.Shaw Kenawehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08637273000409613497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-37938780762077784882012-07-18T08:52:19.348-04:002012-07-18T08:52:19.348-04:00Hitler... Mao... Lincoln?
This is over the top....Hitler... Mao... Lincoln?<br /><br />This is over the top. Sounds like Ron is pissed because he couldn't inherit his parents' slaves.<br /><br />What AOW said.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-14754639952441440382012-07-18T08:28:26.303-04:002012-07-18T08:28:26.303-04:00Assent, and you are sane;
Demur — you ’re straigh...<i>Assent, and you are sane; <br />Demur — you ’re straightway dangerous, <br />And handled with a chain.</i><br /><br />Heed the words.<br /><br />You'll probably take some heat over this post, FT.<br /><br />My view of Lincoln....<br /><br />He was no saint -- never mind that he has been canonized, partly, I think, because he was assassinated and the first POTUS in office to be killed by an assassin.<br /><br />Of course, no man -- least of all any politician (and Lincoln was one, statesman or not) -- is a saint. Over and over again, the eternal plays of William Shakespeare show to us that every "hero," no matter his good qualities, is flawed -- the primary theme of every Shakespearean tragedy.<br /><br />As one from the South, I have heard all "the bad stuff" about Lincoln. Some of what I heard can be chalked up to sour grapes, but much of it cannot.<br /><br />In my view, more than anything else, Lincoln exemplified that the end (the publicized end, if you like) justifies the means. Clearly, that is the basis of every tyranny.<br /><br />---------<br /><br />Off for the day for <a href="http://misteraow.blogspot.com/2012/07/another-day-out.html" rel="nofollow">another museum outing</a> today with Mr. AOW. Back at a reasonable hour -- the paratransit van's schedule willing.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.com