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No posting today….

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Me and Dad got free tickets for the local drag strip around here. So, Me, Dad and my two cousins will be off watching race cars go screaming down the track.

Yes, I am a closet “gear head” — I love going to the track.

So, I shall away from internet, and blogging. I need the break and to get out of this house!

I am taking the iPod and taking pictures, and maybe a movie or two.

I shall be back to the grind on Monday!

Update:  Well, Surprise, Surprise! Turns out the track had a wifi connection! I also managed to grab a video of the last car. See here!

Special Comment: In Defense of Michelle Malkin

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I know she would not want to hear it from me. As I have criticized her, when I thought she was wrong. But I have also praised her and even defended her, when I thought it was the right thing to do.

But the fact is, that Michelle Malkin is absolutely right for bringing to light Rick Parry’s record in Texas as Governor. Further more, she is absolutely right for shining the light on Orin Hatch’s record as a Conservative.

The truth is folks, after the big government Conservatism of the George W. Bush-era, which I utterly despised; it is refreshing to see that the Republican Party has, with the help of the Tea Party movement — became a party of fiscal, defensive and social restraint again.  One of my biggest complaints is that the Republican Party, during the Bush-era was all too eager to embrace the horrid doctrine of Wilsonian foreign policy. Which anyone with any kind of a brain, knows is a disastrous doctrine to adhere; when it comes to Wilsonian Foreign policy, I am not the only one who feels this way; it now seems that other bloggers are now speaking against it as well.

There is also this new wave of anti-establishment vitriol and criticism among the grassroots and Conservative Blogosphere.  I too, find this is a very refreshing change of pace.  There is a simple reasoning behind all of this: the Tea Party, the Anti-Establishment mentality and so forth.  The reason it exists is that for far too long, Republicans acted, spent, and porked — just like the Democrats.  Because of this, people in the Republican Party grassroots became fed up with it all.  This was, in a way, the beginnings of the Tea Party movement.  True, it was Glenn Beck’s idea, true; Rick Santelli was the one who sounded the call.  However, it was the American people who said, “NO MORE BUSINESS AS USUAL!” and began to organize the movement.

As for Michelle Malkin, I believe that her efforts to expose the people who wish to cash in on this Tea Party movement are critical to the reformation of the Government in Washington D.C.  Some of these politicians think that the common people are idiots; this is why we need people like Michelle Malkin to expose the underhanded attempts to deceive the Conservative voters into believing that they are on board with the reformers in the Conservative movement.  Further, there are some, in the Conservative grassroots, who have dreadfully short memories; this is why Michelle Malkin’s work is so very much important to the movement as a whole.

For the record and for what it is really worth; Michelle Malkin went after Bush’s Administration and cabinet as well as Obama’s and the current crop running for the G.O.P.  — That is why I respect the woman.  Because she has always said, you cannot criticize the other side, if you are not willing to drain the swamp in your party — which is so true.

Remember folks, we are at an imperative time in our Nation’s history.  We, as Conservative Americans and as those who vote Republican must be keenly aware of what we are doing here in the next couple of months.  For too long, the American Government has been at the mercy of those who did not give two thoughts to pissing our Children’s futures away — in the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.  We have to select a Candidate this time, which will not only beat Obama; but will uphold the fiscal values that is supposed to make up the Republican Party.  Because the core word of the Republican Party is “Conservative” which comes from the word “Conserve” which means to restrain.  That is what the Republican Party and this Nation needs to return —- the restraint of our fiscal, defense and social matters.

Because of this: we cannot afford to choose someone, who has some sort of Texas swagger, nor can we afford to choose some simple-minded old fool, who is lost in the world of extreme isolationism.  We must be a fully informed electorate.  This is why I defend Michelle Malkin and her quest to out those, who might not be a good choice for President of the United States in the Republican Party.

So, to Michelle: Keep up the good work.  I will be reading, and I will keep in mind everything that I read on your site and at your former site, HotAir.com; when I vote in the upcoming primary here in Michigan and in general election in 2012.

Signed,

-Charles Patrick Adkins

Owner

Politicalbyline.com

I get mail!

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I received a nice e-mail from a reader in Canada.

Before you read this; know that he was reacting to this here:

I am Canadian.If you think canada is bad by what you know try living here.I am 5th generation in this country and have watched it go down hill bad in the last 30 years.Why bomb it, it is all for sale or free to immigrants.This is bullshit.Our government controls the media to tell us only what they want us to know.So most of us are trying to just deal with getting by with the high cost of every thing.We have east indians taking over trucking and cabs.They are in our government changing laws to suit themselves.You call any part of our government and you will more than likley get a chink or a hindu,i am sick of it.It is known here that being a white male here is a dinosaur,and we pay for every thing.I have spent time in the us and have always enjoyed myself and the pride of its people,and have always been treated very well,thank you.I now hate canada with a passion and my wife and i plan to leave soon on our boat.You are right about a lot of the people here,but most of the people i know would also agree with you.So please do not judge all of us by the dumb fucks we have to deal with.I hope this email proves we are not all stupid and unaware.I would rather live in the states. If it was not for the us our country would be a bigger shit hole than it is.I for one would like to say thanks for being there.A pissed off canadian  Gord

I retract what I said about all Canadians being dumb. I guess there’s still some smart people up there. 😀

Thanks for writing Gord!

 

Being banned on this blog revisited

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I was looking in my stats on this blog and I happened to notice that someone happened to come upon a posting where I lambasted a particular blogger for banning me from viewing his blog.

I am almost certain that this person most likely said, “Well, what about you?”

Okay, it is true, I have banned people from read this blog; and for one damned good reason. They deserved it. 😡

Warning! Web Hosting Geek Talk to follow!

It is true, I do not suffer trolls, liberals and fools very well at all, really. 🙁 I guess it is a personality trait of mine.

But honestly, the only IP address that have made it to my “Deny From” list in my “.htaccess” file on my server; are those who have tried hacking into my blog. Which has not been much as of late. However, there are a few, and I do mean FEW who have managed to get their IP addresses added to the list of people not wanted around here.

One is a local guy; who I knew back before I ever became a blogger — he was an asshole then and is still a fucking asshole. His name is Jeff King; he is on facebook. Rich boy punk from around here. Never liked him at all, and still don’t. His IP’s are in there. He is a Ron Paul fan, which should tell you everything you want to know. Lives way out in the Country, about 70 miles to my west. Might be because he is a racist and an Anti-Semite. Most Ron Paul-bots are.

Now, there are a few IP’s of people, who thought they be cute and do a drive by on the blog; and I rewarded them. Some e-mailed me and lectured me on how “Lame” it was for me to do that. My response is, you start paying my hosting, medication and other bills, then you can lecture me. Otherwise, eff off and die. My motto is this; the man who pays the hosting bill, that being me is the person who makes the rules — and my only rule is this: Don’t screw with me.  You disagree with what I write? Fine. But don’t come here acting like a tool; or I will just block your IP. Viewing my blog is not a right, it is a privilege. You do dumb stuff to annoy me, I can and will add you to the “Deny from” list.

Now as for the blogger that I mentioned above; he has long since removed my ban. I also believe that I might have written about this before; but for the sake of those who wonder, yes I have banned people from here —not very many at all. Mostly hackers. But there have been a few that have deserved it.  I look at it as my ultimate trump card and I use it very sparingly.

That is all. 😀

 

 

Message to Josh

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You are welcome to leave comments here; even if I happen to disagree with them.

But you are NOT welcome to tell people to STFU on my blog —- especially me. 😡

You want to write those sort of things? Start your own damned blog.

That is all.

-Pat

Day by Day Cartoon is holding their yearly fundraiser!

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Well, Chris Muir is, the rest of them are cartoons! 😉

See here:

Head on over and give him some money. Give some for me too; I do not have a regular source of income, or I would. So, give a double dip for me! 😀

Day by Day is the cartoon that is in the lower right sidebar. Every cartoon is good; and Chris Muir is a funny man. (Funny looking too, but don’t tell him I said that! 😯 )

Just a tidbit of info: I used to read Chris’s cartoon, when I was a left of center! Remarkably, I found it to be very funny. 🙂

 

 

Time for some clarity

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I feel the need to write about something, which has been bugging me for a while now. I had always known that there was a certain subset of the Conservative movement, which was Anti-Semitic and racist. However, I felt that I could disagree with those people and still call myself a Paleo-Conservative. Indeed, I do very much highly disagree with those who believe in exporting Democracy to other Countries. However, something that occurred tonight forced me to confront the fact that the Anti-War, Paleo-Conservative/libertarian crowd was a bit more hateful than I thought.

First off, let me say this; indeed, I am skeptical of some of the goings on in Israel. Indeed, I am very critical of those who use their racial or ethnic background to get special treatment in this Country. However, my criticisms do not equate to the general hatred of Jews, neither does that equate to a hatred of Israel. Nor does it equate to the feeling that Israel does not have the right to exist as a Nation or that Israel should be destroyed. That my friend is unabashed hatred and that is something that I will not be a part of, at all.

As you all know, that read this blog; I am a user of the social media service called twitter. Tonight, I saw something on twitter that made me very angry. It appears that a particular online publication, which hails itself as a “libertarian” one; has a twitter account. I am referring to AntiWar.com. It appears that this site has a twitter account and on it, a link was posted to a story, in which a Palestinian girl was killed by Israeli border guards.

It was not so much the story that was posted, that I had such a problem with; it was the comment left, when the tweet was sent, it read:

Israeli police will not face trial over death of Palestinian girl – hey it’s not like she’s Jewish or something. feh. http://ind.pn/pjh8Mt

My friends, this is something that I just cannot and will not overlook. This anti-Semitic stereotype is so often bandied about regarding the Jews and Israel. This is nothing more, than leftist hatred; something that I cannot and will not support, ever.

So, as of today, the following changes are being made to this blog. I am, as of now, removing the label of Paleo-Conservative/libertarian/Classic Liberal from this blog. If that is what those two groups, being libertarian and Paleo-Conservative are truly about – I am done with them for good. I am a “right of center” that is what I always called myself. I simply put labels on it, so people could understand where it is that I come from. However, I feel that ignoring this and leaving the labels on the blog fosters the idea that I am someone supports that sort of hatred.

Further, I have removed the section on this blog, which brings the argument that “Racism” was the invention of a group of Marxist Jews from Germany that fled to America. While that might be true —- unfortunately, there are people out there, who use that argument to hide behind, so that they can continue to spew hatred towards Jews and Blacks —– I am not one of those people.

Further, I am going to find and display on my blog, in an obvious spot, a banner that declares that I STAND WITH ISRAEL —- as a Christian, I lay claim to that land, and one day, during the millennial reign of Christ, I will dwell in that land and judge Angels. That is what my Bible tells me.

This, admittedly, is a new place for me; and I feel a bit weird in it. However, when one stands for what he feels is morally right, sometimes, it has to be uncomfortable. Further, if those who disagree with this move of mine want to call me a neo-con, Jew Lover, Bush lover or warmonger — fine, let them. They are fools and one fine day, they will discover just how wrong they truly are.

It feels so good to be doing, what I feel is morally right.

Site numbers

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Here are the site hit numbers for last week.

Total counter state:

Hits: 735961
Hosts: 437560
Visitors: 523530
Sessions: 589085

From the beginning of the month:

Hits: 4026
Hosts: 1758
Visitors: 2315
Sessions: 3352
New Visitors: 2775

Last week:

Hits: 3292
Hosts: 1637
Visitors: 2179
Sessions: 2731
New Visitors: 2274

Not to shabby for a guy who does not really advertise.

More Mail!

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It’s a follow up from Suzie:

Hi Patrick…for the record..I retired to (removed)...retired two years prior to my full vested time back in Mass…….lost lots of money…but could not stand to work another moment for these bastards who spend their time indoctrinating our youth with their bogus claims of global warming…, Obama posters everywhere, never giving our youth a chance to debate the other side….never teaching them about our founders….so when given the chance up here….if I happen to be subbing in a science classroom I discuss climate change and we talk about it….I ask them “does your teacher ever tell you that there are two sides to this debate…” Yes they answer but he said that there is only one scientist who says global warming is not true..and this one scientist is wrong…” So I then ask them to get on to their computers…showing them that climate change has been happening since the dawn of man caused by solar changes…nothing more…and if these effing morons stopped to take a look at the science of climate change…to really research it they would see the weather charts that show the warming and cooling trends since weather began to be recorded…These so called educators propagandists our destroying the minds of our future youth…I had more shouting matches with my colleagues over their brain washing techniques while teaching in Cambridge wrote a paper to be published for the Harvard REview and “voila” it disappeared……. I stopped paying my dues to the progressive nazis…and was warned that if I did this…my UNION COULD NOT PROTECT ME…I laughed and told them…I know my students and they know me…I will take my chances…You see most republican teachers are tarred and feathered especially in the people’s republic of Cambridge……..I now substitute up here…and still get my point across to these high school kids…someone has to do it…have been fired from several different regions in Southern Maine because I present both sides of any debate to my kids…and the nazis in these schools think of me as a threat…fuck them…I will continue to let these kids know that they have to ask the tough questions….that for every issue there is an opposing point of view…… I still have lots of friends down in Cambridge Mass…and as ususal things are terrible even worse…….the inmates still  running the asylum….!! The frat boy geeks say “oh well they are only expressing themselves”…Phewww… God Bless America. Thanks for the speedy reply, Patrick…it has been an honor…LET’S GET IT DONE, MY FRIEND…!! Hope to  ttyl….onward and upward…..Suzanne

God Bless America, Suzie
and….

You may publish anything and everything…to enlighten the masses… My mom is a die hard dem….told her she was making a huge mistake…her repy ?? “Well I like him, and I am going to give him a chance.’ Okay, Mom I replied….Talk to me about this within the year…well it has been 30  months….” ” Hey mom, have you received a cola raise in your measely social security check since your guy got elected.? ”   And now when I talk to her her reply to me ?? THEY ARE ALL THE SAME…”  LOL…;My whole family were/are  Kennedy lovers…all the way…but, since Obama’s election,  I have converted my daughter, my son, both in their 40’s even my granddaughter, who is 22 voted against Obama. My sisters, cept for the one who still lives with MOm will die a democrat…poor, poor, pathetic, useful idiots is what I call these dumb dems………Granddaughter  was pregnant with her first child and  heard about partial birth abortions how the abortionist injects a saline solution into these fully formed fetuses, these beautiful creatures, and these butchers inject them  to fry their tiny little brains…and the Marxist, two times, not once, but twice voted against a bill to stop these late term abortions…Makes me crazy…We have the commies in the democratic party who hate war but allow millions of babies per day to be murdered…! Go Figure….I could go and on and on….Granddaughter had a beautiful baby boy…he is 28 months…There is a God…and these evil democrats are dancing with the devil day in and day out…!! Keep in touch…! Feel free to publish anything, just don’t use my last name…!
God Bless America, Suzie

I just love getting emails like that. I am feeling a bit smug at the moment. 😀

I get mail!

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….and it’s a good one too! 😀

This is from reader Suzanne from Maine; and it was titled: “WOW AND WOW…SPOT ON !”

Suzanne writes:

Greetings, just read your article posted on Facebook, and I am delighted. Why ? Because, like you, I grew up thinking I was a democrat. Taught school in Cambridge for 34 years, but 5 years into my profession, I saw how the liberal loons from Harvard School of Ed. just 1.4 mile from where I taught,  were destroying the educational system in my city. They dropped the morality conduct bar lower than a common street gutter….They used our administrators to ram forth their liberal agenda…Our students were promoted socially…grades no longer mattered…they graduated…behaviour no longer mattered some needed a prison cell not a classroom…I began to wonder why I was paying dues to a union that poured money in the millions into the coffers of a bunch of deluded morons in order to elect more deluded morons…! I have a very keen sense of right and wrong and my gut tells me when something is wrong..and from the moment I set my instincts on Obama I shuttered. OMG…please God not him..So I held my nose, prayed alot and voted for McCain…a vote for anyone else, a write in, was a vote for the marxist…had no choice…really. The only silver lining with Obama’s election is that he is attempting to ram our nation so far to the left, so quickly that millions of Americans have awoken. My fear is that  not enough of these people have a clue as to what is going on with this man. I fully believe that his main goal is to destroy this nation from within in typical Marxist fashion. He has engineered, intentionally, the total collapse of this economy in order to ram forward his New World Order. What infuriated me the most is my party, the republican party, have caved to this asshole over and over again since last election..The ruling class elites in the gop just do not want to lose power…so they will throw some of their own under the bus, as they did with the 2010 election. I feel like I am in a bad marriage…with no way out…with this Marxist mocking us 24.7 . I swear at the telee…cannot stand to listen to the nazi progagandists on main stream media and even Fox is veering more and more left..We have only ourselves to save this nation. I am delighted that you reamed out the kool aid drinking morons…who continue to do the thorazine shuffle…the deluded obamites who stil think he is great…Let’s see what the gop does today with this budget deal. I just wrote to Rep Issa about the latest scandal…Fast and Furious…2500 firearms more powerful than our own guys have, that we the taxpayers paid for through the assholes stimulus money…I DEMANDED FROM HIM TO UPHOLD THE OATH HE TOOK TO PROTECT AND DEFEND AND GO AFTER OBAMA AND HOLDER…THIS HAS THEIR FINGERPRINTS ALL OVER THE PLACE DAMMIT. I DON’T EXPECT A REPLY, JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU FOR RIPPING ALL OF THESE COMMIE BASTARDS A NEW ONE…! RESPECTFULLY, SUZANNE

Suzanne, thank you so much!

Can’t argue with endorsements like that, can you? 😉

 

Update on Dad

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As I mentioned here before, my Dad had to go in yesterday for a procedure.

Well, they went in and were not able to open his artery in his leg. So, they cut on him…for nothing.

Needless to say; my Father is not happy camper at the moment. 😯

Mom said Dad is going to her heart Doctor. Which if this happens, will prove that there is a God! Because he is not much for listening to anything that anyone tells him; at least here as of late. 😉

Anyhow, I shall keep you all informed of what goes on.

 

 

 

 

Light blogging this week

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I will be busy for the next few days. Dad’s going in tomorrow for a procedure for his leg. Today, me and Dad have a ton of “running around to do.” So, it will be a busy day here. I will be taking the iPod to the hospital and might try to put out a posting or two from there. Otherwise, the posting here will be light.

I have much to write about; but now, I just have other things happening in the family.

Thanks for your understanding.

-Pat

 

 

Where in the World

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To be brief, a major storm blew through here and knocked out power all over the place here. I have “brown out” power. So. Not much blogging going on.

Power should be restored to normal by tonight, hopefully. Needless to say, there’s alot of grumbling in this city, in this neighborhood and in this house!

I will return to blogging and other such stuff, when life gets back to normal.

Until then, pray for my family.

Update on job prospects

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As I wrote earlier, I had a job interview yesterday.

The interview went well, at least, I thought so anyhow.

I will not know anything, until after Wednesday of next week. I have something going on this coming week involving my Dad — Which I will post about here shortly.

So, at this point, it is strictly a prospect; someone who called me about a job.

To give you a little hint: It is a driving job. Delivering air freight. Close to what I was doing, before I became involved in blogging. I have had two good driving jobs in my life. I lasted over a year at both of them. Both companies sadly went under in this tough economy.

The real kicker? The guy pulled my resume, because of something I left in the comments section. He could tell, I was a Conservative. 😀

Stay tuned, as I will know more later, hopefully.

Job Interview Tomorrow

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It’s a driving job and it is local.

I’ll be going tomorrow to check it out and see if it’s a good place or a fly by night operation.

Hopefully, it’s something I will be able to do and stay with. As I would really like to get back to work.

I’ll keep everyone posted.

Wish me luck! and if you’re into such things; pray that it works out for me.

 

Away for a bit

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I am going to be “Out the loop” as they say in the ghetto….

I have some personal stuff to do with my Dad. I’ll be back later.]

 

Fiddlin’ around here a little

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I have been really giving this mobile business a serious thought. I tried another mobile theme and it looked great. But my “related posts” plug in did not like it. So, I am back go the old one.

Only thing lacking from this plug in and many others is the ability to add links to a post, without going through the hassle of manually coding a URL. What a pain in the ass!

Oh well, it’s better than nothing. Stupid people, don’t they know that bloggers link?
Apple Ipod
 

The daily rants are on hiatus

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Video:

Guys, I am just going to be honest with you all. I really never was big on being a video blogger or even a video commentator. Some cats dig the spotlight; I, personally loathe it. I love to write, but I am not too big on my own personal image.

So, the rants are either going away or going to just once a week. I have not made up my mind about that yet.

That is all for now. Enjoy your weekend!