GO, Hillary!

Keep up the good work, my friends!  

As an added bonus, I'm a criminal justice major, so the crime-related topics are also very interesting to me.  The immigration & crime report you guys posted was perfectly timed for a discussion we had in class regarding immigrant stereotypes.

First, I am touched that I have garnered such attention. Here I thought nobody paid attention to little ol' me. Second, I am not Tano, and don't know who (s)he is. I was, however, Obamamania, but I was Halstoon before I was Obamamania.

Those who suspect me of using the two names to dominate discussions or puff up the ratings or to make Obamamania look like he actually had a friend are wrong. Check the comment history of Halstoon and you will see that between 2/11 and 2/27 'hal' was dormant.

I made the switch to obamamania b/c I was already being called a shill and a plant and every other name to deflect attention from my arguments, so I decided to have a little fun. So I switched names to a blatantly Obamamaniac name and continued to post, ceasing to come here as myself. Halstoon is a handle I've had for years, and it's unique to me.

After a couple of weeks, it became clear that the name Obamamania meant that whatever I said, whether it was inflammatory or benign, would not be taken seriously. Wishing to have my arguments critiqued rather than my name, I chose to go back to Halstoon, my own original ID. Jeralyn, somehow, noticed that Obamamania had an IP that looked familiar, even though she hadn't seen me in over 2 weeks. She wrongly--and she is wrong at times--accused me of being Tano b/c I complimented one of his arguments. Kathy--my fellow Georgian and a worthy adversary--had a decent amount of fun with. Frankly, I'm sad that Cream City did not get in on the act. I have so enjoyed debating her here as well.

So, now that I have had my 15 minutes of TL fame, I will continue to post as me and only me, defending Obama when he's being attacked unfairly, offering criticism when I think he's messed up (like not reading the NYT story about Medvedev), and generally irritating those Hillary supporters who don't like to hear anything that does not present her in the best light.

Thanks so much for including me; I feel like part of the crew now. Again, what I did was not intended to obscure the debate in any way, and I was not being halstoon and mania on the same threads or days.

I do not rate comments, so I have no interest in whether somebody gets all 5s or all 1s. You can also check who's rated you and see that neither of the me's gave you any rating at all.

Now, I hope that the Halmania controversy can end, though I do expect plenty of ribbing if not outright tomato throwing from some of you.

That's okay. I can take it. I hope you can.

The secondary server is now in place. It seems to be operating as expected. I did rush it into service so there are probably a few things that will require adjustment over the next two days. I'll be keeping a
close eye on things over the weekend but things are looking pretty good. so far.

... so many of you -- big and small -- ...

I'm kind of medium-sized myself, but how would you know that?

Which is why I've made my second donation in the last five months.