U-R-A C-U-N-T. Find Out What it Means to Me

In response to a blog post I wrote over a year ago, I recently received an e-mail from an irate individual named Lynn MacDonald. Lynn writes:

"I can see the look on your stupid face.Didnt your hairy knuckle dragging old lady tell you ,to think before you speak,or in this case,type.If you are clueless to the facts in any given arena,thatas not to make yourself look any more stupid than you are,you should keep your asshole of a mouth closed.I bet ole knuckle dragger runs to pull out all the pics of her little idiot to show folks her pride and joy.You are a joke.But then just as there are many kids abducted,raped ,tortured and murdered,there are more sorry air breathing waste of space running their illiterate asshole mouths like you.Tell knuckle dragger,"she shouldnt have let this one get by her."

Wow. Apparently Lynn isn't familiar with how to use an apostrophe or the spacebar. And speaking of stupid faces, I can't help but wonder what her face looks like when she sees that I know where she lives:

8307 Meadow Rd.
Dallas, Tx 75231-3701
(The Lodges Apartments: located between Greenville Ave. and Treehouse Ln.)(intersection at Rambler Dr.)
lynnmacdonald@sbcglobal.net

However, because I'm a gentleman, I'll won't be posting her apt. number and/or her home phone number...at this time, though several people have already shown interest.

Anyway, since the post was so old, and she made no specific reference to it, I didn't initially know what she was referring to, but with the name "amber" as the subject of her e-mail, and her IP address (67.64.145.243), I soon tracked it down to my September 5, 2004 post entitled "Let the Bad Times Roll: Remembering Sept. 11." I wrote a post about how I think it's ridiculous how some people in our society choose to commemorate/sensationalize/wallow in negative occasions (i.e. Sept. 11, Pearl Harbor, Columbine, etc.). Not that we should pretend they never happened mind you, but that there's no merit in sensationalizing them. True grief doesn't need an audience, nor should it have one.

Among other things, I wrote: "And don't even get me STARTED on the whole Amber Hagerman bullshit (8 years ago). All I can say is it must have been a slow news year. Sad? Yes. History-making? No. Kids disappear every year. You have to ask yourself what made this case so special? It's so obvious her media whore parents were involved somehow. And now those cuckoo birds and countless others gather each year to hold a memorial at the dumpster behind the grocery store where she was last seen. With all this mourning, the silk roses and tiny stuffed teddy bear industry must be making a killing (no pun intended). "

I said it and I meant it. With roughly 1,487,900 children missing in a given year, I still contend that one child singled out and exploited during a slow news week is bullshit. And when I say exploited, I mean it. Get a load of this red, white and blue/tug-at-your-heartstrings passage from an article at LighthouseDistrict.org: "Amber Hagerman was singing America the Beautiful as she pedaled her pink bicycle out of her grandparents' driveway last weekend." Oh puhlease. What? No sparkler? Interesting how this particular piece of in-depth information just happened to surface.

January is notorious for being a slow news month and what better way to kick off a new year than to sensationalize a "human interest" story, especially with such willing conduits as Amber's obviously-media hungry parents and the use of a child's photo?

Locally, everyone marveled at what a magical transformation Amber's father made during his period of mourning/media whoring, going from disheveled background dweller to well-groomed/dressed child advocate/media hound. Not suspicious at all.

My points:
• Do I condone child abduction? Of course not.

• Am I jaded by the fact that statistics show, compared to "Non-family Abductions", the likelihood of "Family Abductions" is more than 3x the amount of Non-family Abductions? Um, DUH.

• Am I surprised that some 42 (though my sources say she already celebrated her 43rd birthday this year) year-old, apartment-dwelling, white trash bitch still using dial up, took my post out of context then opened her cum receptacle of a mouth and proceeded to insert her foot? Not so much.

In closing I'd like to say thanks to Lynn for the blog fodder and for keeping her brain in mint condition.