Now I am a Marauding Marsupial.

This kind of thing might mean nothing to you. As far as I am concerned, for those of you who are already Large Mammals, this ranking means much to me. The ranks are:

I never set out to make any kind of impact in the Blogosphere. I wrote what I wrote when I writ it. All other aspects came second-hand. But my advancement in the TTLB Ecosystem tends to confirm what I suspected all along, and that is this:

Make enough sense, consistently, and one’s readership shall expand.

I cannot but thank each and every one of you who visit my blog for a moment or daily or weekly.

When there are SO many OTHER places you could go on the internet — and you purposely CHOOSE to click on MY blog — I am not only astounded . . .

I am honored.

Bushwack, on his blog American & Proud (see my Usual Suspects sidebar) featured a recent post in which he revealed that filmmaker Brian DePalma is about to nationally release a film, “Redacted,” which is about the alleged “real-life rape and killing of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers who also murdered her family.” There is a character in this film called Reno Flake. Yeah. Right. No clue or bias there, eh?

Wordsmith also wrote about this heinous movie with his post — fully illustrative of the good that American soldiers are doing in Iraq.

When I read both posts, I skyrocketed into the proverbial ozone with identical comments on both blogs. They are there for you to read. In essence I said:

Here’s a start; I hope these images burn holes in your retina forever:

Hey, I know! Because kids could get “hurted,” let’s completely eliminate the game of TAG in school! What an excellent idea!

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A Colorado Springs elementary school is banning the game of tag on its playground — after some children complained that they’d been chased or harassed against their will.

As Deb Acord writes in the Colorado Springs Gazette:

In recent years, school districts around the country have outlawed tag. It’s too dangerous, they say; there are too many risks for children who might be hurt and too many risks for schools that might be sued by litigious parents.

The term “self-esteem” has been bandied about as well. After all, in tag, someone must lose and someone gets to win. Pity the loser who will be scarred for life.

I’ve re-written this coming paragraph three times, until finally I can wordsmith it no longer:

Islamists and all our enemies smile and sharpen their knives whilst reading this pap. Just as the Germans couldn’t believe that Eisenhower pulled Patton out of D-Day, Islamists may find it initially difficult to believe that we are such incredible pansies.

But they’ll come around to believe it, trust me. Let us all join hands now and lay our lily-white necks, oh-so-willingly, on the chopping block of Islamists.

How beautiful shall be our blood as it runs rivulets into the gutters, joining with the rivers of our neighbors and friends.

Either that, or get prepared for Sharia Law, praying to Mecca five times daily.

Hey kids! Ever wanted to start your very own jihad cell? Ever want to join al-Qaeda? Well boys and girls, now you can!

You feel that you want to carry a weapon, fight, and kill the occupiers, and that it is our duty to call for jihad as much as to call for prayer . . . All that is required is a firm personal decision to fulfill this obligation, and participation in jihad and the resistance . . .”

And while there, why not download your very own al-Qaeda Manual?

That Americans should be willing to give up their SUVs.

Here’s John Edwards with his crossover Cadillac SRX on the campaign trail in New Orleans.