Thoughts from the Middle of Nowhere

I am a victim of Identity theft. Of all things someone has stolen my identity. I find it mostly humorous/sad if the truth were to be known. I know, humorous and identity theft normally don't go hand in hand but this time and circumstance it does. You see, my blog identity has been stolen. Yes, my life, through my blog, has been stolen.

Some person by the name of Tony, hereafter known as THE LOSER, has started a blog in Yahoo 360 blogs called The Hired Hand. His tag line of all things is "TONY'S MY NAME, RIDIN' PONIES MY GAME!" Pretty hokey isn't it. His Yahoo IM identity is arealcowboy. Maybe, but I really doubt it. Real cowboys don't act like THE LOSER has. Of the 22 posts he has up at the time I write this, fourteen of them are either directly my posts, including my famous quotes, or recognizable as my posts. There are some other quotes and jokes that I feel are from my site but I cannot say definitely so I won't accuse him of stealing them.

I am going to break down the posts here that THE LOSER stole and my original post for all the world to see. Maybe he will die of shame, I doubt it though, THE LOSER appears to be to low of life form for that. Maybe there is more remedies for this and I will explain at the end. I have posted screen shots of his site after each entry to show what THE LOSER has done in case THE LOSER removes them. Be warned they are fairly large screen shots so only view on broadband if possible.

I posted Tears on Jan 6 2006 4:38am MST and THE LOSER posted the same thing on Jan 6 2006 8:36am PST. (screen shot)

I posted This Explains Things on Jan 10 2006 4:08am MST and THE LOSER posted the same thing on Jan 10 20066:58am PST. (screen shot)

I posted Conflict on Jan 12 2006 4:17am MST and THE LOSER posted the same thing on Jan 12 6:17am PST. (screen shot)

I posted Omens on Jan 16 4:36am MST and THE LOSER posted the same thing on Jan 16 6:16am PST. (screen shot)

I posted I Really Doubt It on Sep 25 2005 4:26am MST and THE LOSER posted almost the same thing, he sanitized the Gazette link out, on Jan 17 6:55am PST and then on his post added my post Stress posted on Jan 30 2005 5:34am MST. He did leave the last item out since it indicates I'm married and I assume THE LOSER isn't. (screen shot)

I posted Examples on Oct 12 2004 6:40am MST and THE LOSER posted the same thing, with a picture added, on Jan 18 7:09am PST. (screen shot)

I posted Prejudice on Oct 21 2004 5:45am MST and THE LOSER posted the same thing, minus the gazette link and he cut and pasted part of the article in, on Jan 19 2006 7:14am PST. THE LOSER also changed where I had "my daughters school" to "my friends sons school" since I am assuming THE LOSER is not married. (screen shot)

I posted Images on Mar 3 2005 5:13am MST and THE LOSER posted the same thing, minus a picture and added the lines "The second post for today On a much lighter side," on Jan 19 7:40am PST. (screen shot)

I posted Idaho and Brucellosis on Jan 20 2006 6:20am MST and THE LOSER posted the exact same thing on Jan 20 8:23am PST. (screen shot)

I posted Confused on Jan 26 2005 6:27am MST and THE LOSER posted the same thing on Jan 23 2006 6:41am PST. (screen shot)

I posted Melting on Jan 25 2006 5:23am MST and THE LOSER posted something called Melting 10 Chickens and a Cock in which he took my melting post, including quote, and added a picture and some other garbage on Jan 25 2006 6:21am PST. (screen shot)

I posted Question on on Sep 30 2005 4:39am MST and THE LOSER posted the exact same thing on Jan 29 8:29pm PST. (screen shot)

I posted Testing the Hired Hand om Jan 31 2006 4:48am MST and THE LOSER posted the exact same thing on Feb 4 2:38pm PST. (screen shot)

I posted Barely in Time on Feb 5 2004 10:07pm MST and THE LOSER posted the exact same thing on Feb 4 2006 8:23pm PST. (screen shot)

That be the dirty list of posts that he stole from me and is pawning off as his own. I will point out there are two other posts there from other blogs that THE LOSER stole and I will be contacting the owners of those blogs with the information for them to do with as they want. Here is the Information on them.

Woodlief posted Christmas Armaments on Dec 23 2004 and THE LOSER posted Armaments, which is the exact same post, on Jan 24 2006.

Over at Cowgirl Funk was posted Damn Your Eyes! on Oct 6 2003 and THE LOSER posted the exact same thing on Jan 26 2006.

That is the full list of the transgressions that THE LOSER has committed, to my knowledge, by stealing entries to make himself something he isn't. I will let the world out there make a decision on what they think of this kind of behavior.

I will note that you can leave THE LOSER a message on the blog by hitting the reply button next to his tag line. If anybody wants to leave a message they can. I have been unable to figure out how to leave comments on the entries so I can't comment on the entries and let everyone know they aren't his. If anybody knows how to comment on a Yahoo 360 blog please let me know. Also there is a link on the left to report for abuse. I am assuming you have to use the link from THE LOSER's site for it to work right. I have put together a complaint that you can download here (it is a txt file, windows notepad should be able to handle it) and paste into the feedback box on the abuse form that gives all the URLs that he stole from me and where the originals can be found. I don't know if the complaint will do any good but it doesn't hurt to try to see if Yahoo will do something about the situation. I have all ready done this and maybe the more people that do it the better. I don't know.

Like I said, this in a way strikes me as real funny. THE LOSER's life is so pathetic he has to imitate me of all people. If he knew me better he wouldn't want to do that. My Darling Wife thinks he is pretending to be a cowboy to get girls. How sad. Hopefully Yahoo 360 will take his blog down so he can quit scamming the women. He will probably start another one some where else if that happens. Nothing I can do about that, I will just have to keep my eyes open.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery. Mohandas Gandhi

UPDATE: I was drilling around THE LOSER's photo gallery listed on the right of the what is called top page and picture number 5 of 18 is mine and you can see it here.

I also note that picture number 17 of 18 belongs to Justin and can be seen originally posted here.

I think this guy steals everything.

OIG Report Solidifies Position of U.S. Cattle Industry; USDA Continues to Ignore Its Own Science

BILLINGS, MONT. (February 7, 2006) The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a report that substantiates the concerns raised by R-CALF USA when the organization filed its challenge to USDA

The lack of the littlest thing, like a small letter n, makes things a little tough to read.

Judge, property initiatives proposed

A umber of other potetial ballot measures have bee submitted to the state Legislative Service Divisio for review ad draftig.

Amog the measures are proposals to:

Allow judges to be recalled by voters, but without a cause. If eough sigatures are collected to recall a official, voters decide whether to keep or remove the official from office. The curret law says elected officials ca't be recalled without a cause, such as physical or metal lack of fitess, icompetece, miscoduct or covictio of a feloy offese. Rep. Ed Butcher, R-Wiifred, is leadig this statuary iitiative effort to remove the cause requiremet for judges.

Restrict the "coveyace" of private property from oe party to aother through emiet domai. This is aimed at stoppig a cotroversial U.S. Supreme Court decisio that allowed the city of New Lodo, Co., to seize a retired couple's home, for paymet, so a shoppig ceter could be built that would yield more tax reveue for the city. Rep. Rick Maedje, R-Fortie, is headig efforts to pass statutory ad costitutioal iitiatives.
Limit the growth i state spedig to a percetage equal to the combied percetage of iflatio ad populatio growth. Rep. Scott Medehall, R-Clacy, is the leader i this attempt to amed the costitutio by iitiative.

I copied a big enough chunk of the article for you to get an idea, there is no little n in it anywhere. It sure makes it tough to read the article. I am assuming the Gazette will fix it at some point, or we can hope they are competent enough to fix it at least, so I posted enough for everybody to get the idea. In this day and age of spell checkers and word processors, how did this happen?

Little things affect little minds. Benjamin Disraeli