Smoke and Thunder

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False Flags and Cheap Shots

I was having a good day. I was rocking out to Hilary Hahn’s phenomenal recording of Ives’ violin sonatas, until I got word that a profile had been established for me at this site.

That’s odd. I’ve never heard of that site, and I found that “claiming” my profile would require a paid membership. Well, that’s pretty dishonest and underhanded.

So, who are these people? They don’t seem too keen on making friends. In fact, they spend a great sum of pixels lambasting other established gun bloggers, and they’ve trolled more than a few gun forums. A whois query shows that the ownership and hosting details are obfuscated, and the only contact information is a phone number out of Denmark. I can tell from the grammar on the site that there are no Danes running it.

Then someone found a bit of a serendipitous wrinkle in their WordPress code. 

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