Tag: Lukas Driesen

09/07/2023 A Voice From the Gallery

Attacks by bullies and religious bullies.  As I stated in an earlier posting of my blog, “…I will not quote the Bible.  I will not quote the Bible to bolster any argument, to defend my personal opinion, to justify any actions I take or any actions I do not take, bully another person or to put someone down because they dare exercise freedom of speech…”  What I have learned in my lifetime in Spirit Lake (the summer-time door-to-door bangers who were looking for their salvation through badgering donations from the residents of Spirit Lake), Woonsocket (rural door-to-door religious door bangers who walked into my farm home while I was away and left their coupon for salvation on my kitchen counter) and Alcester (again the summer-time door-to-door evangelists from the deep south who wanted to share their printed handout) is to watch out for the religious bullies.  Religious bullies who quote bits and pieces of the Bible, taking those bits and pieces out of context to use against me or others with whom they disagree.  The advice I would give is to avoid these religious bullies but unfortunately, bullies do not go away and they won’t leave you alone unless you do something about it. 

I learned in first grade at five (5) years old that a warning did not make Carl a second-grader stop bullying me.  This school yard bully stood a head taller than me had me backed-up against a school yard fence, refusing to let me go and who I warned I was going to “sock-him-in-the nose if he did not let me go.  He didn’t and I did.  He ran to the teacher in charge of recess (who was a disciplinarian) holding he nose and bawling that I hit him.  She came to me and asked why?  I told her the truth.  The boy did confirm what he had done to me and the teacher scolded him in front of me.  The lesson I learned, tell the truth but always be ready to follow up in convincing a bully to leave you alone. So, with that said I will share with you folks my recent batch of hate mail from anonymous porch pulpiteers with my commentary.

Also I would note that while I post these with the notation Coward #1 and so-on, several of these missives are from the same individual porch “postulate.” So I presume this group of Brethren of the Order of the White Feather has a small membership.

COWARD #9.1 AND 9.2 Appear to be from the same coward. Note the similarity of handwriting and the failure to get the zip code correct not once but twice.

COWARD #10 Makes the statement, “…she, … are praying for me, Makes me kind of wonder, Praying for What?

COWARD #11 Now folks this consitutes a threat against me, I have already talked to law enforcement and the post office officials. Now folks you can see why I have chosen to publish these missives of mistruths. You are correct in one thing sugar, people need to know WHO YOU are and indeed they can consider the source; a bottle bottomer, a pretentious, pious, porch profit or a Bible tympanist.

COWARD #12 Good People? Let’s see on-going criminality in a city office? Your idea of good people defies logic. Really? So how is your mirror image?

COWARD #13 We? Who? You and the turd you carry in your pocket and use for an ID? How did that photo turn out? And so, what is your reputation besides being a voting member brethren of the Order of the White Feather?

COWARD #14 Well congratulations Coward #14 if you do not like bullies, how do YOU face yourself in the morning while you shave? H-m-m-m You state you read my blog and it was hard for you to read. Well sugar, it is not written for children.

COWARD #15 Oyea, here they come. Honey ya’ll needed to have filled this little two-question test out before you sent it, to let me know what your answers revealed to YOU darlin’. I suggest you stick with the plastic bag of popcorn and a video you can hang on door knobs idea.

COWARD #16 Hey COWARD #16, do you want your stamp back. I see the post office missed cancelling the stamp on that little folded up missive of yours. Folks this missive measured three (3) inches by Five (5) inches all folded up with the stamp and cutesy little self-stick stickers. Oh-Oh you ended your suggestion with a preposition.

COWARD #17 GEE another postcard, ya gotta be a running out of those little buggers along with your floral forever stamps. Ah folks…Hoping now not Praying…must have a long ride and no bathroom stops.

09/02/2023 A Voice From the Gallery

I will never stand by silently allowing an innocent individual to be railroaded by misinformation, untruths, by cowards who let others take blame for their actions or people too lazy to investigate the truth whether it is in Spirit Lake, Iowa or here in Alcester, South Dakota.  To my critics, shame comes from continuing to perpetuate a wrong on a good man when he has been proven innocent.  If divisive means one faction fighting to restore a man’s good name while a second faction continues to perpetuate the wrong, Yup we are divided!  If airing the dirty laundry is the only way to clean it, get the clothes-pins ready honey and get the clothes-line wiped down!  I come from a line of fighters, the Magee and Culbertson in the Revolutionary War and the Newtons in both World Wars.  I am confrontational, I am pit-bull tenacious, I am obdurate but I AM NOT a quitter.  To the cowards who mail me the unsigned, anonymous sophomoric drivel, which passes for your opinions of my worth—I decline your invitation.  I am here—- so bring it on!  This one ‘little woman’ who will not only be seen but be heard.  I will no longer silently sit back hoping truth and justice will prevail.  I will fight, annoy, push, shove, bully, harass and antagonize to ensure justice has a chance.  I am more than willing to, as the title of a jazz song suggests, “Face The Music and Dance”!

With that said folks, please note the cowards continue in their bullying attempts as you will note below:

COWARD #7  I have to wonder at this coward, ‘cause it seems this card was hand delivered rather than sent through the post office.  There is no evidence that this postcard ever went through the postal service, yet it magically appeared in my residential mailbox in Spirit Lake.  Note the absence of any postal markings indicating it went through the postage system. I have spoken to the Spirit Lake Post Office about this and will be contacting other postal authorities.  Ms. Coward #7, do you realize it is a violation of Federal statute to place items in a designated post box:

18 U.S. Code § 1725 – Postage unpaid on deposited mail matter

“Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits any mailable matter such as statements of accounts, circulars, sale bills, or other like matter, on which no postage has been paid, in any letter box established, approved, or accepted by the Postal Service for the receipt or delivery of mail matter on any mail route with intent to avoid payment of lawful postage thereon, shall for each such offense be fined under this title.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 784; Pub. L. 91–375, § 6(j)(33), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 780; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(F), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)*

*“18 U.S. Code § 1725 – Postage Unpaid on Deposited Mail Matter.” LII / Legal Information Institute, www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1725.

COWARD #8   WOW you found my house in Spirit Lake!  I’m gonna give you a heads up Sugar, many of the folks in Spirit Lake know me by my maiden name (having been born in Spirit Lake and growing up in Spirit Lake) and my married name.  In fact one or two have come to me for help with city issues on occasion, a-w-w gee ya failed, again.  But one must expect that from a coward who presumes to step into the  pulpit of self righteous sanctimony, sententious and moral smugness, theatrically banging on a book that should be revered and not used as a bludgeon, screaming and shaking a raised fist, “…I got God’s back…”

Folks take a look at the message portion of this missive.  This copy does not show it well, but the message was generated by computer on a sheet of paper, appears to have been cut to size and tacked to a get well greeting card.  Now folks I gotta say, this coward did pay postage on his smug moral missive

08/31/2023 A Voice From the Gallery

Note:  I will not quote the Bible.  I will  not quote the Bible to  bolster any argument, to defend my personal opinion, to justify any actions I take or any actions I do not take, bully another person or to put someone down because they dare exercise freedom of speech.  I make this statement because I do not pretend to be a Biblical scholar in terms of how I understand the semantics of the language, interpretations of the circumstances surrounding the time and place in which the words were originally written and the factual aspects of the events being described.

With that said, I shall now address my “fan mail”.  Folks I have received six missives over August 24th and August 26th from anonymous authors who apparently want to put me in my place.  H-m-m! I have labeled these anonymous mailings so I may address each chastisement aimed at me with the full amount of attention I believe it deserves regardless of the anonymity where the author is too cowardly to stand in the public pulpit under their own name.  

First Up-Coward #1   I have already, in a previous blog, pointed out the foibles of this anonymous postcard.  Ma-am as long as innocent people doing their job are being attacked, bullied and finger-assaulted by drunkards, I will be here pointing their behaviors out AND SIGNING MY NAME.

Second Up- COWARD #2   Folks I would address this missive of shame-on-you nattering.   Note that the writer really-really wanted to make sure their Identity was secret.  Obviously this person just wanted to follow the lead wooly-bugger sheep.  Here Coward#2 ignores the meanness of their cohort, totally forgiving the despicable things she perpetrated during her tenure with the city.  I will not stand by silently, condoning the bullying, abusive behaviors she practiced upon certain residents of Alcester.  

Third Up – COWARD #3  As you all can see there is at least a group of six who are interpreters of the Bible.  Beware, the Bible verses y’all are regurgitating are accurate to the Bible and the events it is relating and y’all are not adding your own translation.  Oh one thing, I have a question about the book of Numbers.  How many verses does your Bible have in Chapter 6?  Can you share with this old sinner, Verse 28 in the Bible you so vigorously quoted?  My Bible doesn’t seem to have a verse twenty-eight.  H-m-m  See this is one of those things I was a’talkin’ about.  If you do not know how many verses, why in the world would you take the chance on quoting the Bible to me.

Fourth UP – COWARD #4   Ah Coward #4 I see from your tirade that you seem to have a “spiritual” crystal ball whispering in your deaf ear.  Just as the things you have done are unlikely to “win” you anything but a sharp slam-shut of a pearly gate,  I only write about the things I can prove with facts and video.  As to your advice sugar, I would strongly suggest you find a nice, comfortable seat while you wait. In addition, I would politely suggest you send one of your missives to she-who-was-fired, so she can start her long journey and make amends to all the people she has harmed.

Oh I gotta hand it to you on your artwork,  Hey maybe you can get Art by Paula to show it alongside her work at whatever venue is still open to her.

Fifth Up  –  Coward #5  Ah, this one made me laugh.  Um you have been a busy little beaver, sugar.  It begs the question: did they know me before or after you did the character assassination on me.  I can understand why you would be unwilling to attach your name to this missive.  You really should have used the word “known” rather than “know” in your writing efforts.  I would suggest you take the advice of the quote you plagiarized below and see a doctor about your mental problem or visit a confessional if you cannot find a doctor who is willing to treat you!

Sixth Up – Coward #6  Far and wide, really?  You get around that much?  Oh honey, I don’t attempt to fool anyone.  More often than not, people will laugh and share in the jocularity of my mind set.  When I make someone laugh, I feel honored.  It is indeed too bad, you do not have any empathy or sympathy for those folks who the fired-former-finance-officer harassed, those folks she caused to be thrown out of their home while ol’ Geoff Fillingsness tramped through their home taking pictures or the Mayor she refused to hand over the tools of his office because didn’t like him.  It wasn’t her choice!  She was just a bookkeeper.  If y’all want to pray for someone, I suggest she be at the top of your list ‘cause from what I hear, albeit from the grapevine, she told a whopper in a house-of-worship.  And folks I am not talking about the Burger King sandwich,

08/30/2023 A Voice From the Gallery

Beware the fury of a patient man*

John Dryden -*Brainy Quote. https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/john_dryden_101689.

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(d)Whoever, with intent to extort from any person any money or other thing of value, knowingly so deposits or causes to be delivered, as aforesaid, any communication, with or without a name or designating mark subscribed thereto, addressed to any other person and containing any threat to injure the property or reputation of the addressee or of another, or the reputation of a deceased person, or any threat to accuse the addressee or any other person of a crime, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. If such a communication is addressed to a United States judge, a Federal law enforcement officer, or an official who is covered by section 1114, the individual shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 741; Pub. L. 91–375, § 6(j)(7), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 777; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §§ 330016(1)(G), (H), (K), 330021(2), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147, 2150; Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title I, § 11008(d), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1818.)*

*“18 U.S. Code § 876 – Mailing Threatening Communications.” LII / Legal Information Institute,  http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/876#:~:text=Whoever%2C%20with%20intent%20to%20extort. Accessed 30 Aug. 2023.     

HUMOR ME FOLKS.

Got this in the mail with a postal date of 24 August 2023  PM 2  L notation on the front of the puppy dog postcard stating…Thinking of you. This appeared with five (5) other anonymous letters in my mail.

To Ms. Anonymous Sender, please read the above very carefully.  Oh by the way I would strongly recommend your cohorts read it very carefully, also. 

So folks take a look at the message on the puppy dog postcard.   Take note of the left side of the postcard and the font of the message.  This indicates the writer is moderately versed in calligraphy.  Note the style of the letters ‘w’ with the right elevated upstroke, now note the style of the letters ‘g’ and the ‘y’ with their sweeping descender (that is the final downstroke of the “g” and “y”) and finally note the agitation showing in the dotting of the letter  “i” from the ‘i’ in ‘praying’ to the ‘i’ in ‘will’ to the first and second ‘i’ in writing and lastly the ‘i’ in things.  Note the first two ‘i’ have no ‘tittle’ (the dot over the i), now look at the first “i” in writing which has a small, tentative “tittle” compare that small “tittle” to the large emphasized “tittle” the second “i” in writing and finally to the small offset “tittle” over the “i” in things.  Remarking on the two “P”, first look at the beginning capital “P” with just a small hint of a desender curving up, now look at the second “P” with its loop at the top of the descender.  Finally I would point to the “t”  in stop, writing and things, note the crossing of the “t” starts just above the “x” height of the vertical stem of the “t” traveling at an upward angle to the right.  

Now on to the address portion of the anonymous postcard to the right of the postcard’s vertical midline.  Here the writer makes a concerted effort to disguise their handwriting.  But again I will draw your attention to the V in  Vickie resembles a check mark, and the L in Larsen leans back.  This is a point where the unconscious takes control and reverts to the normal day-to-day style of printing by Ms. Anonymous.  I draw your attention to the letter “n” in the address components, see where the ‘shoulder’ of the “n” has a downward slope as opposed to the “n” on the calligraphic side “n”?  Unfortunately for Ms. Anonymous, her normal handwriting style keeps interfering with her attempt at anonymity.  Again compare the letter “s” on the calligraphic message side with the address side.  One final note on the lettering aspect of this abortive attempt at anonymity, check out the K another ‘tell’.

Finally folks look closely again to the right side of the postcard.  Take note of the smearing to the lower right side of the card and a dark grey smearing under the stamp placement. Was there perhaps another stamp there at one point?  Lastly, the stamp.  The stamp appears to have come from a small book of stamps rather than a coil of stamps, this is purely my presumption.  In my experience coil stamps have two perforated sides rather than four. How this is important is the application of the stamp onto the document to be mailed.  

If the stamp is self-adhesive, it does not have to be licked.  No DNA.  With that pointed out, think about how a self-adhesive stamp is removed from its backing.  I remove a self-adhesive stamp by peeling back with the index finger and with thumb pressure upon placement on the envelope. I would imagine that I am not the only person who applies stamps in this manner.  However any lack of DNA is made up for with the possibility of a thumb print or an index finger print.

Should you be fortunate to have a licked stamp, a good forensic scientist should be able to extract DNA with saline solution swabs and with the help of Ancestry your face will appear like portrait magic in a tray of photographic developing solutions.

I have not yet opened the other predictable, malicious missives (I want to preserve any evidence) pending my choices of reactive response beyond this blog.