Catching up here...
First and foremost, thanks to our crack volunteer tech team for their tireless effort and top notch results and to all the friends and supporters who helped research new hosting providers and provided other kinds of support. We couldn't do it without you and what would be the point? The entire value of this silly little ODD website derives from your interest and contributions. And, lest I be remiss or we all forget, my sincere thanks to those program proponents who have been brave (or foolish) enough to stand your ground and try your ideas outside of the controlled cultic structure of your various support groups and seminars. I mean that. Without opposition, this whole thing would be about as much fun as playing with dead puppies. So keep it comin!
And thanks to the trolls, too. Sorry but I have to part ways with the majority on this one. There's room for and need of comic relief, sharp satire and, often enough, outrage and vitriol. If you read these fora for awhile and not lost your temper from time to time, check your pulse! As outrageous as some of the content here may be by "normal" standards, it doesn't even come
close to the level of emotional abuse inflicted on roughly 50 - 100
thousand helpless teens, pre-teens and young adults held captive on any given day by the very people who so frequently go crying to the courts or the media or their various support groups over being called bad names in text (sometimes video) on the net. Suck it up! Sometimes people need to vent and, trust me, you wouldn't want to trade places with any of us!
Besides, it can be very therapeutic to laugh at the devil sometimes.
Finally, I'm not too worried about having the site back in the US. We actually do have a right to free speech so long as the people involved are willing to claim and defend that right. As a matter of fact, I would
rather stand and fight here at home if we can ally ourselves with others willing to defend our 1st Amendment rights. Here's the whole thing:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Note that freedom of speech comes second to freedom of mind. And that's what this fight is really all about. I'm ashamed of my country in some regards today. It seems we've reached a point where the cult of control has enough sway in business and the public sector to
almost shut down dissent. I cannot, in good conscience, leave a mess like this for my kids and eventual grand kids to clean up.
Onward!