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Thank you to the Ghost-to-Ghost Network
About 12 people will get this reference, but as boys we all loved the Three Investigators Mysteries. LOVED, as in all caps. Especially the ones where Alfred Hitchcock appeared, to mentor the three boy detectives who solved crimes out of a junkyard somewhere near the California coast. Sometimes, working on projects here at Buzzquarters, or hitting the road on the campaign trail and having other adventures here in Boystown, the lot of us feel a little like Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Green, the Three Investigators.
One of the narrative tricks the writers of these books used to move the stories along was the “Ghost-to-Ghost” network, where the boys would employ a telephone tree to get an answer to a question or help solving a problem. The Investigators would each call 5 people, ask the question they needed answered, and then those five people had five others to call, and each of them had five others, and so on…with the tree expanding until someone out there, coast to coast, found the answer and called the Investigators back so they could solve the case.
This is pre-Internet, clearly, in the days when working on a report for school meant calling the library to talk to a reference librarian who could look something up in an encyclopedia for you if you couldn’t make it down to the library in person. It’s alien to remember those days, before computers, when knowledge and information was hard to come by.
It’s truly marvelous what the Internet has done. Instead of making use of a “Ghost-to-Ghost” network like the Investigators (so called because the boys would not know who all was part of the tree, or who would be calling them with the answer to the question), we can just run a post on any question we have or political mystery we need solved, and one of you out there, whom we will probably never meet in person, will have the answer for us, usually by the end of the day.
It’s a pretty incredible thing.
And, it’s a humbling and awesome tool we hope continues to grow in strength through the years, forever to be used in service of America and its best interests. Coast to coast. Ghost to ghost. Buzz to buzz, as it were.
The Left is much better at using technology to achieve its aims, but we have a feeling if conservatives, moderates, and independents continue to grow their own networks, share information, and form communities committed to rescuing America from socialism, that in the end we’ll overpower the radicals. Our network will become stronger than theirs, reach more people, and bring the Left down…like the two-bit thugs they most certainly are.
We just want to let you know how much we appreciate you all. We wish there was more time in a day to thank you personally, as individuals, and carry on more private correspondence and get to know more of you as friends, but we are very grateful for the potential HillBuzz has to fight hard for America in our own way.
Thank you. So very much. We’ll keep the lights on at Buzzquarters doing our part…if you keep up what you are doing in the dark in so many thousands of homes coast to coast.
