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The Other McCain Sells Out

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So long, and thanks for all the links.

DATELINE LAS VEGAS
After a shocking early morning phone call from Stacy in which he revealed that he had sold the blog to Jeff Bezos of the Washington Post for an undisclosed amount of money “and other valuable considerations”, possibly including a minority stake in the Hagerstown Suns minor league baseball team, it is my unhappy duty to inform you that this will be the last post at The Other McCain. Family spokesman Kirby took the phone and said there would be more details in a later video post on YouTube, “but right now Stacy has to talk the Ewok off the ledge.”

Smitty had no comment, but sources speaking on background to the Navy Times revealed that the former Admiral of the Afghan Sea had been recalled to duty, promoted to Commodore, and would be sent on a three-year accompanied tour of the Little America Antarctic base where he would be in charge of efforts to root out alleged multi-racial white supremacists in Neu Schwabenland.

As for your resident burrowing marsupial and linkmongler, I am sitting in my hotel room surrounded by half-naked cosplay girls and bemusedly examining the packing slip on this box I received from Amazon Prime late last night. Thirty silver eagle coins, a case of fishnet stockings, five pounds of See’s Chocolates, a gallon of Astroglide…a man could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that. 

UPDATE: Stacy’s news conference.

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In The Mailbox: 11.02.20 (Election Eve Doomed Beyond All Hope Of Redemption Edition)

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— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Pagan Vigil: Memo To All Future Political Telemarketers
357 Magnum: I’m Old Enough To Remember When Elections Were Peaceful
Bleach Cocktail: Suicide Bombing Of Peace In Vienna
EBL: Clay Travis On Why He Supports Donald Trump
Twitchy: San Marcos Police Say Biden Staffer’s Car May Have Been At Fault In Trump Caravan Incident
Louder With Crowder: Crazy Maxine Waters Promises To Never Forgive Blacks Who Vote For Trump
Vox Popoli: Endgame Approaches, also, Walk It Back, Walk It Back
Surak Blog: We The People Are Not Stupid Or Evil (h/t Red Pilled Jew)
Stoic Observations: The Stoic Vote

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Fate Of The World Edition, also, Election Predictions
American Conservative: Trump At Last Targets The Google Whale
American Greatness: Donald Trump, Counterrevolutionary, also, PA Democrat AG Declares “Trump Is Going To Lose”
American Power: Expect Election Day To Be A Repeat Of 2016
American Thinker: Trump, The American Lion, & The Republican Cowards, also, October Surprise – This Race Is Over
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Another Massive Anti-Communism/Trump Rally In Miami On Sunday
BattleSwarm: Glenn Greenwald & The Democratic Media Complex, also, BidenWatch For November 2
Cafe Hayek: More Ivor Cummins On COVID
CDR Salamander: Intentionally Choosing To Be Deaf & Blind In Africa
Da Tech Guy: Raise Taxes, Kill Businesses – Must Be California, also, Biden & Harris Never Gave Voters An Answer On Court Packing
Don Surber: How Trump Threw Obama Off His Game, also, It Feels Like A Revolution
First Street Journal: Korean Businesses Matter Too, also, Authoritarians Gotta Authoritarian!
The Geller Report: George Soros’ Plan B If Biden Loses, also, Maxine Waters – “Black Trump Voters Are Shameful”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Coming Attractions
Hollywood In Toto: Woke IndieWire Shredded By Its Own Liberal Readers (Again), also, Here’s What Makes Faith-Based Miracle On Christmas Different
JustOneMinute: One Day More
The Lid: Florida Busts Attempt To Register Over Fifty Dead Democrats
Legal Insurrection: Antifa Rioter Tells NYPD “I Hope All Your Children Get Raped & Killed”, also, Can Trump Pull Off An Historic Win In Blue Minnesota?
Power Line: Biden’s Destructive Education Program, also, Red Mirage?
Shark Tank: Guillermo Smith Stokes More Racial Division In Florida
Shot In The Dark: 101 Reasons
STUMP: Reading The News With Meep
The Political Hat: Happy Halloween! (2020)
This Ain’t Hell: American Hostage Rescued In Nigeria By SEAL Team Six In Daring Raid, also, ShutDown DC Advises Federal Employees On Aiding Their Movement
Victory Girls: Karl Marx Lives Loudly Through Kamala Harris
Volokh Conspiracy: Why This Religious Freedom Case Is Different From The Others
Weasel Zippers: Documentary About Antifa & The Coming Elections, also, Harris – “Joe Biden & I Are About To Get Rid Of The Trump Tax Cuts”
The Federalist: Psychiatrist & CNN Guest Praises Hitler In Attempted Dunk On Trump, also, Under Trump, Americans Have Seen Their Best Wage Growth In 40 Years
Mark Steyn: The Thing From Another World, also, Election Day Minus One

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The Naïvietê of a ‘Skeptic’

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@The_SkepDick is a partisan Democrat masquerading as an objective observer, which is to say that he is no different than about 90% of American journalists except for the fact that he is just an anonymous troll account on the Internet and not a multimillionaire celebrity like George Stephanopoulos, but I digress . . .

@The_SkepDick posted on his Tumblr blog (yes, of course he’s on Tumblr) a photo of graffiti outside The Women’s Library that said, “MEN READ BOOKS TOO, C**T,” which he captioned, “MEN’S RIGHTS ACTIVISM.” This was posted to Facebook, and someone then called it to my attention. Hmmm.

My first comment:

1. Where was this graffiti written?
2. I would presume that this bookstore is in an urban liberal area.
3. Does it seem likely, therefore, that some right-wing “Men’s Rights Activist” would have traveled to such a place, armed with a can of spraypaint, to create this graffiti?
4. All things considered — including the history of feminists faking “hate” incidents — isn’t it MORE likely this graffiti is another such hoax, a la “Haven Monahan” and the “gang rape” at UVA?
5. You call yourself a “skeptic.” Try being SKEPTICAL, please.

My second comment:

A quick Google investigation indicates that the Women’s Library is an institution affiliated with the London School of Economics, and that this graffiti was painted in 2013. Does anyone suppose that the urban vicinity around this elite campus is crawling with thuggish misogynists? The likelihood that this graffiti is a HOAX would seem quite high, and given that London has a nearly panoptical closed-circuit surveillance camera system, one would think that, if this graffiti were a REAL example of vandalism inspired by anti-female hatred, the police would have apprehended and prosecuted the culprits. Let the SKEPTIC attempt to find news accounts of any such prosecution. Good luck.

My third comment:

Further investigation determines that The Women’s Library had formerly been located in London’s East End, in a former warehouse purchased and renovated with a £4.2m Heritage Lottery grant in 2002. It would seem, however, that this windfall was insufficient, so that by 2012, The Women’s Library was shuttered and, in 2014, the LSE came to the rescue. So this graffiti was, evidently, painted outside the East End location in 2013, AFTER the facility had closed.

Anyone with the most minimal research skills — really, can these idiots even spell Google? — could have found that information easily, nor would it have been hard for them to research the long history of left-wingers (including feminists) faking “hate” incidents, however . . .

If liberals were concerned with facts, they wouldn’t be liberals. They choose always to live inside a cocoon of prejudice and partisanship where, merely by posturing as “progressive” and parroting the latest left-wing slogans, they manufacture a belief in their own intellectual and moral superiority. Anyone who does not kowtow to them, anyone who does not flatter them and applaud their childish tantrums, the liberal will smear as “bigots” and mock as “ignorant.”

Yet who is genuinely ignorant here? Who is the real bigot?

Does @The_SkepDick provide any evidence — any evidence whatsoever — that this graffiti outside The Women’s Library was genuinely the work of a Men’s Rights Activist? He does no such thing. Why not? Quite likely because no such evidence exists and he never even bothered to research the matter. He is not a skeptic at all, but is just an ax-grinder, a partisan propagandist who lacks even the minimal level of curiosity that would cause him to wonder, “Is this for real?”

Alas, our country is rapidly filling up with idiots like that, “educated” in public schools run by unionized bureaucrats who have been indoctrinated with the prevailing progressive dogmas that exercise hegemonic control in academia. Because every textbook now is edited (and every TV show is now produced) by fanatic disciples of this worldview, it never occurs to the typical young public-school graduate that maybe not everything he has been taught is actually true.

Not once in his entire life has he encountered a book like Friedrich Hayek’s The Mirage of Social Justice or Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed that might cause him to re-examine the belief system into which he has been indoctrinated. No, only “bigots” read books like that and, besides, the typical Democrat voter hasn’t read a book since the day he graduated school (or dropped out).

A vast ocean of ignorance and naïvietê has been created, at taxpayer expense, by our government’s “education” system. This may be why 65,918,507 people voted to re-elect Barack Obama.

We are Doomed Beyond All Hope of Redemption.





 

We Are So Doomed

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If you’re an optimist, you obviously don’t have young children, especially daughters. To be a parent in 2014 is to know for a certainty that the social fabric of our civilization is rapidly unraveling:

An 11-year-old girl from Arkansas gave her family the scare of their lives last week when she ran away from home after stealing $10,000 and jumped into a cab hoping to travel to Florida to meet a boy.
When Brent Waller discovered that his daughter Alexis was gone December 5, his first, terrifying thought was that she had been abducted. . . .
The 11-year-old girl had swiped $10,000 in cash from her grandmother’s sock drawer, crept out of the family’s Bryant, Arkansas, home in the middle of the night and hitched a ride with a stranger to a gas station in Little Rock.
Alexis then called a cab and asked the driver to drive her to Jacksonville, Florida, located about 830 miles away.
The girl said the taxi driver did not ask her any questions beyond her final destination and whether or not she had the $1,300 fare.
Alexis said she decided to make the long journey halfway across the country because she wanted to see a 16-year-old boy she met on vacation two years prior and had been talking to ever since.
The Florida teen said he knew nothing about Alexis’ plan. . . .

(Well of course he would say that, wouldn’t he?)

Police obtained phone records and were able to trace Alexis’ call to the Little Rock cab company, where officials said the girl wore heavy makeup and appeared to be 17 or 18, according to Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

(Parents: If your 11-year-old daughter is wearing heavy makeup, she’s planning to steal grandma’s money and run away.)

Before long, they reached the taxi driver the girl had hired, who told them they were driving in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia.
The 11-year-old’s parents immediately hit on the road, driving nine hours to pick her up.
In retrospect, Alexis Waller said she was glad her parents were able to track her down bring her home safe.
‘I knew I made a mistake after a while and I didn’t have a phone,’ Alexis told KARK-TV.

Isn’t that special? She steals $10,000 from grandma, calls a cab so she can run away to be with a teenage hoodlum she met on vacation two summers ago, but when she gets caught? “Mistake!”

She made a boo-boo, an oopsie. Just a lonely fifth-grade girl committing grand larceny to be with the 16-year-old boy she loves.

Doomed. We are completely doomed, I tell you . . .

 

On the Encroaching Gloom: ‘We Are Permanently and Irretrievably Screwed’

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GAHANNA, Ohio
Sitting here sorting through the debris of last night’s utter catastrophe, I saw an e-mail from a friend in Colorado, who wrote to say that he shared my dark mood. So I sent him a brief reply:

Yeah. The full implementation of ObamaCare — how can we possibly recover from that? And it pains me even to think about the intractable stupidity of the electorate. The future looks a lot like “Idiocracy.”
Anyone seeking words of encouragement can look elsewhere today. The best I can offer is dark sarcasm.
— RSM

Here’s the thing: Conservatives warned that the re-election of Obama would have disastrous and irreparable consequences. In the wake of what happened, it ill behooves us to say now that the future offers anything but a descent into squalor and despair. If our arguments before Election Day were correct, we can scarcely enhance our credibility after Election Day by pretending that we can prevent what we previously said would be inevitable. The re-election of Obama heralds the advent of the post-American era.

Buzzfeed pays Rosie Gray mock us, while Melissa McEwan does it for fun. We fully deserve the mockery, for the folly of hoping that America might come to its senses. Ed Morrissey writes at Hot Air:

Many conservatives — myself among them, to be sure — operated on the assumption that the 2008 election had been the anomaly, driven by the fiscal crisis, and corrected in the 2010 midterm elections. The Left assumed that the fiscal crisis in 2008 had realigned the electorate toward greater government interventionism, and that the 2010 cycle was the anomaly, driven by a partisan fight over health care and the lack of a presidential contender at the top of the ticket. . . .
The partisan split in the electorate was 38/32/29, nearly identical to 2008. We argued that Barack Obama and Democrats couldn’t win a base turnout election again, but they did, as evidenced by Mitt Romney’s five-point win among independents, 50/45. Romney even lowered the gender gap from an Obama +14 in 2008 to Obama +4 in 2012, but that clearly wasn’t enough to overcome what now looks to be a significant realignment four years ago towards Democrats and not an anomaly.

A “significant realignment,” indeed, and in the worst possible sense of the term. Remember that it took the conservative movement 16 years to recover from the landslide defeat of 1964. Think of what a carnival of errors might ensue with another 16 years of Obama-style “progressive” governance, and what a desperate wreckage any future conservative leadership would be left to attempt to salvage. And of course, Rachel Maddow “making cream pies in her shorts.”

Remember what I said on Election Day?

Keep an eye on Loudoun County, which George W. Bush won with 56 percent of the vote in 2004, but Obama won with 54 percent in 2008. Should this affluent Northern Virginia county tip back toward the GOP column, it would not only likely mean a Romney win in Virginia, but could be a bellwether of results in other similar upscale suburban communities that shifted from Republican to Democrat four years ago.

Obama won 51-47 percent in Loudoun County, and Obama won Virginia 51-48. A Memeorandum thread I’d rather not have? Yeah, nothing to be done about it now. I hit my deadline at 1 a.m.:

Late Tuesday night, the pundits on TV began jabbering incomprehensibly along the lines of, “What does it mean?”
The American people — or, at the very least, a sufficient plurality of them — decided that they want another four years of clumsy policy failures and vengeful “progressivism,” as Democrats nowadays describe their agenda for wrecking what remains of our constitutional republic. Even before the unmitigated political disaster of November 6, 2012, a date that will live in infamy, the prospects of salvaging the United States were not particularly hopeful. Now, however, we are permanently and irretrievably screwed.
Let’s not mince words, eh? It was one thing, obviously, for the electorate to choose Barack Obama in 2008, when Bush-era “brand damage” was still a fresh irritant in the wounds of a war-weary nation. Four years ago, Obama was untested and enshrouded in the glowing mantle of Hope. No intelligent person could possibly believe that “Lightworker” crap anymore, but then again, it’s been a long time since any intelligent person believed anything a Democrat said. The cretins and dimwits have become an effective governing majority, and the question for conservatives at this point is perhaps not, “What does it mean?” but rather, “Why should we bother ourselves resisting it any longer?”
Alas, as always, the duty of the Right is to manfully endure, to survive the defeat and stubbornly oppose the vaunting foe, and so this brutal shock, this electoral catastrophe, must be absorbed and digested. At some point next week or next month or next year, then, we shall recover our morale and plot some new stratagem for the future. In the immediate aftermath of Tuesday’s debacle, however, it is difficult to see any glimmer of light amid the encroaching gloom. Surely, there are many Americans who now sympathize with that New York infantryman who, in the bleak winter of 1862, when the Union’s Army of the Potomac was under the incompetent command of Gen. Ambrose Burnside, wrote home in forlorn complaint: “Mother, do not wonder that my loyalty is growing weak.… I am sick and tired of the disaster and the fools that bring disaster upon us.” . . .

Read the whole depressing thing at The American Spectator.




 

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Department of Unfortunate Analogies

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Perhaps you remember a fellow named Todd Akin. You may wish you could forget having ever heard the name, but I think you probably remember.

Think back to the morning of Sunday, Aug. 19. The Republican National Convention was still eight days away, and Isaac wasn’t even a tropical depression yet. And then came the episode that Michelle Malkin called “the Todd Akin mess.” I’ve been in a tropical depression ever since.

If Mitt Romney can get his campaign back on track — please, O merciful Lord! — the Akin episode will be forgotten as sideshow, a blip, a footnote. On the other hand, if Team Mitt can’t pull out of this media-induced spiral, we’ll look back at Aug. 19 as the Day It All Went Wrong.

The less said about this, the better, for now. So imagine my shock when I clicked over to Memeorandum and saw this:

Todd Akin’s Wife Compares GOP
Abandonment to Rape, Tyranny

It’s like a toothache, isn’t it?

Tampa, Here I Come

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Driving to Tampa today, after a restless night haunted by the helpless feeling tbat we are doomed beyond all hope of redemption.

Todd Akin had the chance to do the right thing Tuesday, and selfishly refused. Now, with the encouragement and support of Mike Huckabee, Akin is digging deeper the grave in which the Democrat-Media Complex are planning to bury the Republican Party.

The problem is not merely that Claire McCaskill is cackling with glee — suddenly leading by 10 points in Missouri — over the Senate seat that Akin foolishly fumbled away. Rather, Akin will now become the most famous name at the Republican National Convention:

The Republicans’ convention messaging will be thrown off, Baker said, “If Joe Biden goes to Tampa and says, ‘Where’s Todd Akin?’”

Todd Akin has made himself the Willie Horton of 2012.

All the work every Republican has done this year, every dollar the Republican Party has raised, will be wasted because of one selfish fool.

This is what I see — the Neutral Objective Facts of the situation — and I can’t shake it. Friends have tried to console me. They’ve told me that my overwhelming sense of despair is irrational.

“Look at the polls!” they say. “Good news!”

OK, fine: I know nothing about politics. All my years of experience and observation count for nothing, and so my gut-hunch is not to be trusted.

Never mind. I’ll drive to Tampa with Ali Akbar. I will spend the next several days listening to Republicans describing their plans for victory, and I will try to recover some sense of hope.

Maybe something will happen to change the trajectory.

Maybe Todd Akin will make the mistake of attending the convention in Tampa and accidentally bump into Mitt Romney, who will then attempt to strangle Akin with his bare hands. Mitt will be booked into the Hillsborough County Jail, while the convention will be thrown into confusion. The delegates will make Paul Ryan their presidential nominee, with Marco Rubio as his running mate. This shocking turn of events will create a surge of momentum the GOP will ride to victory Nov. 6.

OK, that probably won’t happen, but it could happen — and it’s a scenario at least as realistic as Todd Akin getting elected to the Senate.

Don’t try to talk me out of a dark mood like this. That just makes it worse, increasing my sense of emotional isolation.

There’s only one known cure: Hit the freaking tip jar.

 





Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Time to Quit Whining and Get to Work

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This will be brief, but expect additions to follow in updates. Rick Santorum is now urging his supporters to get behind Mitt Romney:

Rick Santorum has officially endorsed Mitt Romney, and notified his supporters in an email sent Monday night.
In the email, the former presidential candidate cited his Friday meeting with Romney in his hometown of Pittsburgh as a reason he finally got behind the presumptive GOP nominee.
“On Friday, Governor Romney came to Pittsburgh for an over-hour long one-on-one meeting,” Santorum said in the email. “The conversation was candid, collegial and focused on the issues that you helped me give voice to during our campaign; because I believe they are essential ingredients to not only winning this fall, but turning our country around.” . . .
In the lengthy email, Santorum encouraged Romney to “add more conservative leaders as an integral part of his team.”
“And you can be sure that I will work with the governor to help him in this task to ensure he has a strong team that will support him in his conservative policy initiatives,” Santorum said. . . .
“Above all else, we both agree that President Obama must be defeated,” the letter read. “The task will not be easy. It will require all hands on deck if our nominee is to be victorious. Governor Romney will be that nominee and he has my endorsement and support to win this the most critical election of our lifetime.”

More at Memeorandum. As I say, this initial memo will be brief. If you supported Santorum, you must now respect his judgment that getting on board with the Romney campaign — “all hands on deck,” as Santorum says — is a vital obligation for all conservatives.

UPDATE: Ed Morrissey at Hot Air:

Santorum is scheduled to appear on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno this evening, and ABC’s Shushannah Walshe says that Santorum was expected to make a commitment at that time.  Santorum apparently decided to announce the endorsement as soon as he made the decision.  That may take a little of the drama out of tonight’s appearance, but it also may draw more interest as people tune in to hear Santorum’s explanation of the endorsement.

Here’s the thing I want to get across to our readers: Whenever Republicans lose a presidential election, the first thing the GOP Establishment does is to focus blame on conservatives. This is why Sarah Palin was scapegoated for the 2008 defeat, because treacherous swine like Steve Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace, who get paid to win elections, don’t want to accept responsibility for their own failures.

It is therefore an urgent necessity — however painfully ironic — that hard-core grassroots conservatives give their maximum effort to help Romney defeat Barack Obama, because if Team Mitt loses this election, you will be blamed. Your honor as a conservative, to say nothing of the future of our Republic, thus requires from you even greater labors than you would have made if Rick Santorum had won the nomination.

Like I said, “painfully ironic.”

UPDATE II: In case you don’t understand how the GOP Establishment’s blame-shifting apparatus works, Tony Lee explains it at Big Journalism. Here’s the thing: When Steve Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace backstabbed Palin and threw her under their RINO careerism bus, they thought their vicious treachery would never be discovered, because they’re so much smarter than everybody in the conservative grassroots.

UPDATE III: As I say, however, this isn’t the time to be nursing old grudges. We’ve got find a way to win, or else expect to be blamed for the defeat. Bridget Johnson at PJM notes that Santorum’s e-mail “stressed his differences with Mitt Romney and therefore gave the need to beat President Obama as the key reason to vote for the former Massachusetts governor.” Well, of course that’s what Santorum did.

If he hadn’t been honest about the differences, his endorsement wouldn’t have persuaded anyone. Here’s the crucial word from Lisa Graas:

Since May [2011], I have been 100% behind Rick Santorum because I trust him to do what is right for America. If Rick Santorum believes that Mitt Romney will defend life and marriage, then that is good enough for me. I also now endorse Mitt Romney for President and look forward to being a part of Rick Santorum’s grassroots volunteer team to continue the fight for conservatism in America.

One of the key topics at the Mitt/Rick meeting? Vanuatu.

UPDATE IV: Readers will recall that yesterday I said it is important to let Team Mitt do their job. That is to say, we shouldn’t be disgruntled, sitting around second-guessing them and bitch, bitch, bitching for the next six months. That ain’t gonna beat Obama, OK?

Our confidence in Team Mitt should prevent us from being distracted by certain people (not on the campaign) whining because they didn’t think Santorum’s endorsement was sufficiently sycophantic.

Hey, whiners: Kissing ass is your job, not Rick’s.

UPDATE V: Robert Costa at National Review talks about Team Mitt’s new hires, including former Santorum campaign director, Mike Biundo.

For the past couple of days, I’ve been biting my tongue about this, which got linked here, and to which I obliquely replied Sunday night. Because we are now in what Ace likes to call “game faces” mode, some insults must be ignored and some injuries suffered in silence.

Our personal interests or narrow ambitions should never be confused with “the conservative movement,” which is larger than any one person. We stand on the shoulders of giants, and owe an obligation to those who suffered and sacrificed to build this movement, and who are no longer here to aid us in our struggle. Humble service is our duty, and the scrupulous fulfillment of that duty is a matter of honor.

Note, please, that this mild acknowledgement has been included in the fifth update, three hours after the original post went online. That is to say, I’ve put it where it will attract little public notice, merely so that it may be known to friends that I am fully aware.