mercredi 10 mai 2006
Shelley The Republican
Par Jérémie, mercredi 10 mai 2006 à 13:33 :: Internet
Well, I don't know how you managed to reach the shores of this blog but you are truly welcome.
As you can see this first message is written in English since this post deals with another blog entitled Shelley the Republican and as you may have guessed it is an American blog.
I had first decided to devote this post to a warm welcome and explain what will be the main subject of this blog (i.e. everything that goes through my mind). But ever since I discovered the web site named above I have been unable to think about another subject. And to be more precise there is a question I keep asking myself and to which I really can't find an absolute answer.
In order to understand what her blog is about, allow me to make a short description of her.
Shelley is a Christian Republican Texan woman.
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Actually I can say that she really is like everybody would imagine a Christian Republican Texan woman... and that is precisely what bothers me. How can someone be such a caricature? This question leads directly to the one running in my head for a few days now, is this site for real? When you look at the portrait of Shelley written above there is no way that you can think that it is not a fake.
The thing is how did this site become notorious in the first place?
To answer this I have to introduce Tristan Shuddery who is another person posting on the STR blog. Tristan is a retired IT manager who once posted an article entitled Linux: A European threat to our computer in which he described Linux as a Marxist operating system. I must say that I kinda like the idea. He also explained that Linux is one of the source of Al Queda money. As you imagine it has quickly been noticed by some WWG (World Wide Geeks). And in some days this article had more than 500 comments. And most of them were saying that they slightly disagree with him.
But thanks to this episode, I have discovered this blog that has never stopped to astonish me since then.
A first thing that makes me doubt is Tristan’s answer to some comments saying that he isn't skillful enough to talk about Linux, he wanted to show that they were wrong. In order to demonstrate his skills he choose to make a comparison between the latest windows and Linux OS. So the fair and square battle announced was between Windows server 2003 and... the Red Hat 3.0. And that's one of the things that makes me think that all of this is a fake. How would an IT manager say such a thing? Does it require a lot of knowledge to find out that it is very far from being the latest version?
And as for Shelley, she is too much into the "Good American" thing to be real. Lately she has created a petition in order to ensure that the "Citizenship and immigration services" will give to our Lord Jesus Christ the US-Citizenship when he returns. ô_O
She also dislikes foreigners and it seems that she especially dislikes French and German. The post in which she said that some of her husband German relatives had sex in her own house watching a German hardcore SM porn movie while she and her family - like every good American on Sunday - were in Church really worth it!
So what can we conclude about all of this?
First I would say that for a first post in English it doesn't seem too bad.
Then regarding the STR blog, I feel like even if it is obvious that all of this is a great mascarade, I cannot help but to ask myself if it doesn't carry Shelley's real vision of the world. A world where a French Muslim using Linux is doomed! Or maybe it is just that I really hope that someone like Shelley really exists in order to show us, Citizens of the World, the path we should all take to live happier, that is to say the opposite of hers. ^_^
Lastly I have to say that the blog Shelley The Republican is a great fun (but for warned adults only).
Jérémie
PS: I really liked when Tristan compared "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" as a satanist children's novel about witch-craft in modern-day England.