You know, I hate doing this, becuase I believe in giving people the benefit of the doubt.

UPDATE:

As I said before, Jim/Jay wrote to me, the day the original post was published. Saying among other things...

"As far as the money goes... right now, it's pretty much a wash. I haven't kept track of everything to the penny, but I know that the total you've sent is within a few dollars of what I've spent -- around $70.00. I will not ask for any more, nor accept any until it's all over and settled."

Now perhaps Jim is buying into the Conservative Hype that all of us Progressives are stupid, Cause according to my Pay Pal Records...
I have paid my buddy Jay Tea $245! More than three times the amount Jay says I sent. I know Jay is a very detail oriented guy, could he have just overlooked this?

I did not hear from Jay again, despite sending him a couple of emails, until January 7th. It is now a month later and still nothing. I have sent Jay/Jim several emails since Jan 7th, none of which have been answered. Now I am a big boy. Noone likes to lose $250, but thank God it isnt going to kill me. I am however disappointed. I have dissagreed with Jay Tea/Jim on almost everything we have ever discussed, however I never considered him a fraud, a thief and a liar. Howver I am at the point where the fact that he can post multiple times per day to Wizbang, but does not have time to respond to my emails, leads me to conclude that Mr. Thayer is simply hinding from me.

Kind of fucks up the whole, Holier than thou noble conservative routine, dont it...

Jim, if you want to take my money, go ahead, not a helluva lot I can do about it, but please return my birth certificate.

For several months now, Jim, or as he is more commonly known, Jay Tea of Wizbang fame has been helping me to secure some paperwork I need from the U.S.. I have sent Mr. Jim quite a few bucks via Paypal, and for a while he was trying his best to cut through the bureaucracy of the Costa Rican Consulate in the United States to help me. I always made sure Jim had MORE than enough money, and always asked him if he needed more. I wanted to make sure that he was not doing this for nothing, though most of what he was doing was a couple of phone calls and forwarding some paperwork and money orders for me. Of which I was willing to compensate him well.

Well, as some of you know, I have been traveling extensively the last couple of months, and could only keep in touch with Jay/Jim via Yahoo messenger and the occasional email. I frequently sent him additional funds, whether he asked for it or not, and was assured that he would take care of the paperwork for me. I even sent him my Birth Certificate.

I have been back in Costa Rica for a month now, and have sent Jay/Jim at least six emails, none have been responded to. Now since he and I have had what I considered to be something of a friendship over the last couple of years, I gave him the benefit of the doubt, assuming that either his spam filters were keeping out my emails, or that he was busy and could not answer right away. So I left him a message on Wizbang, where he is not so busy as to fail to post voraciously...

Today I sent Jim the following:

Jim: Did you just give up? Have a financial problem and need the money, or what Jim. I need to know one way or the other. I have not put anything on my Blogs about it because I am giving you the benefit of the doubt, but there is no way you could have missed the message I posted on Wizbang, so… Are you just a lying sack of shit thief, a person who needed a couple of bucks, or what. I mean for a person who always seemed to have the highest sense of personal ethics, I find it strange that you have not answered my emails. Have I not tried to make this worth your while…. How much money have I sent???

Which.... SURPRISE, also has not received a response. To be honest, I am dumbfounded... I would not agree with Jay Tea if he said iit was raining and I was soaking wet, but I at least respected him as an honest person, and one with some ethics and BALLS. I have not even seen him on Yahoo since he stopped answering my emails, something I would expect from some of the people I have encountered here who avoid conflict like the plague. It may also be a bit of pride...

So let me close by saying this... I know that it has been tough Jim, and if you needed the money, or even if you were just tired of the paper chase, I could understand that. But I thought you were a person with some personal HONOR. Ignoring my emails and stealing my money just about fucks up any credibility you have. Now I will be more than glad for you to prove me wrong. But at this point, it aint looking so good. I am sorry I had to make this public. As a man of scruples and honor, I would have preferred to handle this between the two of us, but obviously you did not give me the chance.

I am well aware that among the rabbid right, you will lose very little cridibility, and probably be congratulated by some of the more jaded among them for "ripping me off," but I can assure you, you LOST WAY MORE THAN I DID! The amount of money involved would not fund one of my weekend BBQ's or a night out with my team. And despite however it is justified, you come off as a cheap, cowardly thief, who did not even have the balls to answer an email or show your face on Yahoo. Not what I wanted or expected, because despite our political differences, I considered you a friend, and appreciated you very much.

I am equally sure that there are some people at Wizbang, or among their readership, that will be VERY disappointed. Oh and the STUPIDITY TAG, that is for me, I was the stupid one... But not at all the loser...

UPDATE: Jim has responded and apologized, and I understand and appreciate that he is engaged to help me.

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