And yes, the D is for Douche.

Both of my regular readers will know that a few days ago I posted about being poor, and how one particular jackass decided that being poor wasn’t really poor and went on the attack against a family on Twitter. Then, after his attempts to call the people “scammers” even though they had never asked for ANYTHING in order for there to be a scam, he deleted his inflammatory comments from his twitter stream because, well, the rest of the time he “educates the world” with that account and he would not want to look bad.  Apparently, in this twatwaffle’s mind, the only ‘poor’ people in the world are people who live in Africa, cardboard boxes and sewers, and he doesn’t understand the difference between poor and utterly destitute. After enlisting some help from some turtles who begged to differ with his point of view and went off to slap him around with a little martial-arts action, I pointed out the numerous ways in which the poor struggle in this high-technology society.

Well, I felt my entry was reasonable and not exceptionally inflammatory, even if my FIQ section was a lot more hostile. The only thing particularly different I did was including the name and link to the aforementioned person who was clearly of the mind that he was right and everyone poor must not be able to bathe, and therefore if you actually have plumbing and a roof over your head you are not actually poor.

As is my usual M.O. after getting something off my chest I moved on, and mostly stopped thinking about it. Until the next day.

That’s when I woke up to the following comment on my blog from “bewdevil@yahoo.com”:

Submitted on 2009/05/30 at 11:41am

you seem like such a bitter loser.. …

Now, at first I was taken aback… I gave it a lot of thought. AM I really bitter? Did that entry come across as bitter? Sure, it was somewhat angry – but for the most part I was simply pointing out that many people don’t understand what it is like to be poor. As an example, I can mention that in order to keep our house warm, we have to scavenge wood, using skids or any deadfall people will let us remove from their land. We can’t afford any other heat – as a matter of fact we are STILL paying off a power bill from the first month we lived in our new house, because we had NO idea how much it was going to cost to keep the house at a mere 65°F/18°C and got badly stung… we went through this whole past winter, struggling, exhausted, frustrated – but never bitter. We got some help from some great friends who brought scrap skids from their work or got us through a few days when we were broke and had nothing left to heat with by buying us some firewood from a grocery store. Our vehicle broke down, and we were frustrated, but not bitter. I regularly think about how fortunate I am have love and family and how much more difficult our struggles would be without that, in spite of being sick and low-income.

So I thought… why would someone say something like this unless they had some kind of agenda? I decided I’d do a little digging.

First I tried tracking down bewdevil@yahoo.com but obviously it is not an address linked with a public profile or used openly online. That made me oddly suspicious, because most people aren’t all that tech-savvy about stealthing their email – or alternatively, they want it to be available so people can find them. So, this is someone trying to do something semi-untrackable. I looked up the IP address and found it was a fairly generic Frontier Communications address which is a fairly common source of internet service in rural areas, especially in the north-eastern U.S.A. So, unless I want to really start tracking and digging and contacting ISPs, I’m at a dead end. Boring.

But here’s where it starts to get juicier. I decided – throw out the “yahoo.com” part, I’ll search for this user name. Yahoo has some other services, and it is not uncommon for people to use the same “before the @” as their name on other services. And that led me to this: Bewdevil’s Photostream on Flickr. And I went AHA! But, you’re saying, it’s just a bunch of copyrighted images of questionable origin – some guy uploading images he probably does not have the rights to into a photo sharing site… who cares?

Unless you’ve actually been very interested, you’ve likely NOT followed many of the links I have provided in these two posts… but you might want to check out this one.

If you’re STILL not sure of the point… try flipping around a bit on the SolComHouse website. And look at Flickr. Then back at SolComHouse.com. And now, again back to Flickr… go ahead, I’ll wait.

Oh. My. Goodness. Me. Look. At. That. Wow.

So… I don’t think it is unreasonable to think that this is likely more than a simple coincidence.

Mr. Charles Welch, owner of “SolComHouse.com” and all-around “brilliant” guy, you are the first official FIGJAM Douchebag of the Week.

You were too cowardly to indicate your actual identity in attacking someone who pointed out just how much of a dick you were being, although I’ve little doubt that at least one of the “green power” and “solar” followers I gained on Twitter was your sock puppet. You’d already gone above and beyond the normal call of duty for your average run-of-the-mill fucktard by attacking and accusing a family in difficult financial shape of being “scam artists” with no evidence and then erasing your tracks, pretending you didn’t say it… but to then go around calling the person who pointed out just how flimsy your “evidence” was bitter put you over the top in the voting. That, and the fact that you were the only nominee.

And I submit to you, sir, that it is clear there is only ONE person who is bitter in this situation: it’s YOU. Because you got caught proving that all that shit you talk on your web page about being concerned about the world is nothing but a public relations exercise in order to push your agenda and sell your shit.

Have a nice life. Winner.