I see that no one has come up with answers to my little quiz yet. What does the word "Fascist" mean, why was Hitler not precisely a fascist, who invented the term, and what is it derived from?

< Forrest Gump >"My mama always told me, 'Don't use a word if you don't know what it means.'" < /Forrest Gump >

I'll supply the answers a bit later. But for now:

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A couple two or three years ago, there was a person here who billed himself as "ichMael," pretty much a take-off on the opening line of Moby Dick, "Call me Ishmael." Probably also just moving the "M" in "Michael" in three spaces. Cute.

Anyway, this "ichMael" posted vast quantities of really vicious anti-Obama propaganda, much of which was of the rankest sort. He would even link people to a web site that apparently he had started called "The Mudcat Pages." This web site proclaimed that Obama was not born in the United States, he was born in Kenya, he was a Muslim, that his father had dozens of wives, that Obama's mother was a "whore," and just about anything else he could think of to denigrate President Obama and his family, including a photograph showing a skinny man in a dancer's leotard hugging another man. Whoever the skinny man was, he had Obama's head crudely Photoshopped on top of his body (bad job; anybody with his head at that angle from his body is going to have serious neck problems). This, of course, was alleged to be incontrovertible proof that Obama is gay.

This "ichMael" was a real nut-case!

Then, he went away.

Now, I can't be absolutely sure, but I have a strong suspicion that he's back! Only now, he's calling himself "Songwronger."

The verbiage, the writing "style," and the subject matter are all exactly the same.

I am reminded of the outpourings of a group that calls itself "The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas."

No kidding!! There IS such a group, believe it or not!

Don Firth