Farewell BlogAds, I wish you well

Something interesting happened yesterday. I received this rather tersely worded e-mail from the follow that handles Blog relations at BlogAds:

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Hi Patrick,

I wanted to let you know we've stopped Blogads sales for your site. We
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Blogads.com is imperfect and has frustrated you, we don't want to be
associated with your abusive language about our staff and service.

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My first reaction was, basically, to chuckle a bit. What happened was this; I was trying to edit an ad spot here a few days ago and the server that handles the ad editing — was slow, as in very, very, slow. Therefore, I hopped over to the facebook page and in so many words, told the idiots to fix their stupid slow server. I guess Henry, the man that owns BlogAds, saw it and someone got their butt chewed for it. I suspect that might have been Marc. Therefore, in retaliation, I am tossed off the service.

Here is why this really does not matter at all. I can count on one hand, how many ads I have gotten with BlogAds, since I started using it again — when I switched sides politically. I only got five or maybe six paying ads on the side. When I was a left of center Blogger, I got exactly ZERO ads. As a “Right of Center” Blogger, I even was a part of a few hives, or Ad Groups. Those paid nothing as well. I mean, literally no ads came from the majority of them; except maybe the so-called “Conservative” hive. I got a few through there. I ended up leaving that hive, because of the actions of its owner. Of whom, I felt was a bit of an asshole towards David Frum. Other than this, I was not “rolling in the dough” as some might have assumed —- much quite the opposite — I never made much of anything with Blogads at all. All of those ads, that you might have seen in the sidebars, in the Blogads, ad sections, were free ads that I ran, either to promote stuff that I was selling on zazzle or as a favor to others who asked for the help.

Frankly, it is the opinion of this writer, that Blogads day has come and gone; Blogads came on the scene in 2002 and became big in 2004, during the election. However, much has changed since then. Google Adsense got smart and started doing graphical ads — not to mention the fact that their pricing structure is a bit saner for advertisers. In addition, there is this little thing. I believe in the time old business practice of “the Customer is always right,” no matter how abusive, nasty or whatever, the customer is always right. Frankly, if the staff over at Blogads cannot handle being yelled at, because of their subpar servers, then they should shut the company down and leave the advertising business.

Frankly, I am glad to be severed from that company and their joke of an advertising system, which benefits the bigger bloggers and leaves the smaller people like others and me on there in the cold. Therefore, I can honestly say, there was no big loss, at least not on my part.

In conclusion, I simply say to Blogads —- Goodbye and good luck. I wish you the best; however, I suspect that BlogAds will be going the way of other foolhardy ad businesses of the pre-economic bubble era — out of business, especially if they continue with this philosophy that the staff is always right.

Out for a bit

I am going to be away from the Blog for a few hours.

This blog will always be here, until I close it up. My Father, on the other hand, will not be.

I will be with him for a few hours. I am going to go hang out with some of the greatest people, who helped make Detroit the great city it is. The Autoworkers.

I will return later today.

The forgotten faces of the Afghanistan War

Call me an old softie; call me whatever you wanna call me. But this little Gallery here, breaks me up a bit.

Whether we want to admit it or not; but these children are in the crossfire of a very adult war. They are the victims of a deranged group of people; who attacked us on 9/11.

They are the one’s that my heart breaks for, in this thing we call war.

No, I do not rejoice about Robert Stacy McCain’s Misfortune

I have received a few e-mails inquiring my feelings about the fact that Mr. Robert Stacy McCain’s blog encountered some problems and was down; and is now being repaired.

The short answer is no.  I do not rejoice when another Blogger; even though that blogger did toss me under the bus, has a problem.

Let me explain to you why.  Back on December 25, 2007, my blog, which was at this address here, was hacked, and I mean hacked badly, by Russian hackers who had been sniffing around my site for a long while.  However, unbelievably, you can actually look at my old blog here.  Partially, it was my fault for having that blog hosted at a site, whose security software, (MOD_Security for you geeky people…) was horrible out of date.  In addition, I had done a very stupid thing.  I did a Drupal in the root directory install with WordPress in a sub-directory. I was told later that this was not a smart thing to do —- I do have knack for figuring stuff out, the hard way.

Anyhow, everything that I had written on that blog, from the day I started blogging in 2006 — was lost.  I do not believe that I could ever properly put into words how much that hurt.  However, I cannot say that it was not deserved; I did make a huge mistake.  I did something, for which I am still feeling horrible about; I insulted a man’s dead wife — by accident.  I still feel horrible about it; and those who are his friends, still hate me to this because of it.  The blog, of whom the domain name had outlived its actual purpose, as by then, I had become convinced that left was just wrong about the good majority of things — was hacked and there I was, with nothing to show for a year’s worth of work.

Anyhow, so, no, I will not sit here and rejoice over someone else’s misfortune.  I hope McCain is able to pull it out of the fire and get back to blogging.  Even though he did toss me to the curb, I still read there; because like him or not, you have to admit, he is one hell of a good writer.  McCain is better than my piss poor excuse for writing.

I could not call myself a Christian — albeit a half-assed one as I am — and still look myself in the mirror, if I thought anything different.

Sweet: Political Byline finally makes a list of Conservative Bloggers

Check it out:

100 Excellent Conservative Blogs You Should Be Reading over at Masters In Education.

About this site Michael Erins writes:

27. Political Byline: This blog is packed with enough videos and pictures to keep anyone’s attention.

I like to think that we’re more than just a video site. But, I will take any sort of good press that I can get; especially seeing the bad press as of late. 😀

So, Um, I am just stoked that we got mentioned somewhere. 😀

Oh, By the way

I have decided that I am not giving it up. I am not going to allow a group of thugs to run me out of blogging. Screw ‘em if they do not like me. I really do not care.

So, back at it I go.

However, from here on out. I am writing from I truly am; a Paleo-Conservative. Screw trying to make inroads with people. I write how I feel and screw the rest of ‘em.

Um, this is not cool people

Just stepping back in here to make a comment about something that I noticed in my stats:

Now I do not know who is looking for what; it is obviously not the Government looking for anything. But I hope like hell that some whack job is not looking for inspiration or anything from my site. Because I do not promote that sort of crap at all. I have, for the record, seen this look up before on here and at the time, I thought nothing of it. However, it is starting to became a regular thing and it is starting to seriously piss me off.

I am not sure, who the sick fuck is, that is getting his murder fantasy on here, by reading my blog. But I really wish he or she would take that bullshit somewhere else! Because I really do not share in that sort of morbid shit!

Anyhow,  That is all. I just wanted to bring attention to this shit and let people know, that I am reading my logs still.

Now, I am going back to my Hiatus. You freaks can have this bullshit. I’m just tired of it all.

Taking a extended hiatus

I am afraid that I need to take another much-needed Hiatus.

This little event here; has left me not really wanting to write any longer.

I might be gone for a week, a month and maybe for good.

I realize that I have said this before.  However, this time —- I do truly mean it.

They say politics is a contact sport, Well, if that is the case, I was delivered a drop kick to the nuts.

The fun is gone.  The interest has evaporated into thin air.  I have grown tired of the mundane.

I only started this blog, because I thought it a cool thing to do…and it was, for a while.

This event was not the only reason.  I had said on twitter, that I wanted to stop for a while.

The Neo-Conservative, Zionist, Semite-Baiting crowd will be pleased, I am sure.

Not that I really care about what they think.

I just want my freedom back and not be chained to a blog.

That is what this has become, a horrible paying job.  I am all for working — and actually being paid for my work.

This blog does not pay jack crap.

I just do not believe that it is worth the aggravation any longer.

The Democrats are going to do what that they really please, and nothing the so-called “Right” does is going to change any of that.

The Republicans really do not have any answers either —-Except for mocking Obama and defending multi-billion dollar companies.

The War Iraq is all but over.  The Surge Worked.  Bush is gone now.  The catalyst for me beginning to blog is now gone.  Now, I feel like I am defending whose who really do not care a iota about me, my family or anyone else that I know personally.

Was I Blogging a Lie?  Some would say this, as my background would dictate to me, that I should be a Democratic Party voter.  However, how can I vote and support those who are boarder line insane?

Democrats are the party of the handouts, if you are the right color and entitlement group.  Naturally, I am not.

Small Government is a great idea.  However, we will never be able make it as small as the Republicans would like it to be.  To believe otherwise is delusional.

I started out, five years ago, frustrated at my Government, and began blogging.  Here I am five years later —- Just as frustrated and have absolutely nothing to show for it — at all.

I made some seriously stupid mistakes when I first started blogging and those mistakes have never stopped following me around.

I have tried to make inroads and tried to make up for my errors.  I guess that really is not enough for some.

I watched in 2008, right after Obama’s inauguration, a movement of the people.  I was awed by the sight —- only to watch that movement become another movement become controlled by the same people whom President Obama replaced.

I should have stopped then.

I will go away for a little while.  I hope to be back.  I just need a long rest and do something else for a while.

Remember this: My enemies did not win.  I am just putting away the war game for a while.  I need the furlough.

Stupidity from the Moderation queue

Yet more stupidity from my moderation cue. This installment is from some jackwad tool, that obviously does not read the rules of the road around here; when it comes to commenting:

Author : RnBram (IP: 74.12.251.179 , bas21-toronto12-1242364851.dsl.bell.ca)
E-mail : rnbramwell@gmail.com
URL    :
Whois  : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=74.12.251.179
Comment:
Once again, a writer trots out the Leftie, non-think, smear ’em with trivia and avoid the actual issues, tactic, and pretends to be “<em>siding with proper reason</em>”.  What flatulence.

How about examining her <strong>campaign</strong> arguments?

Doing so might show you possess a modicum of intelligence over that of some Grade Nine kid who doesn’t like his teacher.  Maybe this <a href=”http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&amp;mpid=174&amp;load=3949″ title=”” rel=”nofollow”>short interview</a>, will help.  In it alone she shows more economic understanding than the most elected officials in Washington!

It would be much better if she matched tax reduction with spending reductions, but no federal government got far with that idea.  We should hope the TEA Party candidates get enough support to actually try.

Apparently this guy seems to have a reading comprehension problem. As it says on my rules page:

Here is my reason for not allowing you to insult me. This is my place, I paid money to register my domain. I also pay a meager fee for the hosting.  This blog is my intellectual property. This is my spot in the political Blogosphere, and you are here as my house guest. You would not walk into my literal house and insult me, act like an idiot or anything like that, would you? So, why should I allow you to act like a moronic idiot in my virtual house?

The rules are plain; don’t come here and insult me like an asshole, and expect me to print your comment. It is just that simple. My Blog, My Rules, don’t like them; start your own damned blog.

Besides, this jack wad is in Canada! CANADA?!?!?! Does this dude have any clue how I feel about Canada?

He went on and on about how I don’t believe in freedom of speech. Last time I checked this is not a public website. It’s privately owned and I can pick and choose what I wish to allow in my comment sections; and I choose not to allow people to insult me. Sorry, way it is around here.

Now, where’s my dog picture at?

Ah, here it is!

Sorry for the silence folks

Howdy Gang,

No, the Obama red-shirts did not cart me off. At least not yet. 😉

I’ve just been busy, since I woke up. Dad went fishing today; and I was the designated “Move the Vehicles” person.

I also had to go up, with my Dad; to one of my Dad’s friends houses to dump some catfish. My Dad caught a “whole damned truckload” of ’em.

So, I’ve been a little busy today. 😀

I’ll get caught up sometime or another here.

I cannot seem to convey the fact that if I don’t write, I do not make any money. So, that’s that. 🙄

Real life around here is really starting to suck. I am really need to get a job; so I can get the hell out from under the parents man. I mean, either that, or I am going to have to take up smoking again. My nerves can’t handle this crap for much longer. 😡

A little housekeeping note

You might have noticed some changes around the place.

I’ve removed that Ad in the left sidebar. Because, at times, it was displaying the same ad as the one at the very top of the blog. Also, I moved the ad that was at the very top, above ever thing down above the ad for the Amazon bookstore. This is because that ad way up there, to me, was a distraction from the site. I did not like it there; but it did seem to bring some clicks.

The idea folks is this; I know there are people that come here, who hate the ads; I get that okay? I do want to make a little money on this blog. However, I do know how it feels to go to a blog or website and it be filled to the brim with ads — so much that it makes one want to close the browser in disgust. I am also going to give some of them ads in the left column some time and if they do not start making a profit; I will be canning those too. I believe in free market principles; and if an ad is not bringing any sort of a profit, I just will not sit and force my viewers to look at something that is not bringing a profit.

Anyhow, hope you like the changes.

Your Host,

-Pat

Site Numbers

These are via GoStats.com:

Total counter state:

Hits: 557634
Hosts: 332221
Visitors: 396902
Sessions: 439863

From the beginning of the month:

Hits: 9372
Hosts: 5966
Visitors: 7157
Sessions: 7902
New Visitors: 6260

Last week:

Hits: 4863
Hosts: 3567
Visitors: 3963
Sessions: 4170
New Visitors: 3318

Taking a Break

I will be taking the next day and the weekend off. I just need a break folks.

There will be a posting going up on September 11 that I wrote today.

I just need to get away from politics for a little bit.

If anything big breaks, I will come back and write about it. But otherwise, I’ll be away for a bit.

I hope you all understand. 🙂

Until I return, check out The Other McCain, Memeorandum and HotAir for your political fix.

An Apology

It appears that Alan Simpson and I have something in common.  We have the tendency to open our mouths before engaging what little brains we have left.

It appears that I have committed a major sin.  I shot my rather large mouth off; I was trying to defend someone, who calls herself a moderate Conservative.  However, in all reality is nothing more than a liberal Conservative; in the process of doing such, I, when I originally posted the entry, used some terms and wordage that is not consider decent and acceptable language in all quarters.  I, as always, was strictly, “shooting from the hip” as they call it.  Unfortunately, I ended up shooting myself in the damned foot instead; I am good at that sort of a thing.  I did clean up the post, to avoid problems; but as they say, the internet is forever.  I however did post a defense of my actions.  However, I really did not address the fact that I really should not have went there.  Which I did, and I do now regret that very highly.

Therefore, to my faithful readers, if you are even still there; to the two women of whom I did firmly insult and to the owner of said blog, I offer my most humble apologies.  Sometimes in the heat of the battle, we say and do things, that looking back on — we really just should not do.

As a Christian, I do not claim to be a perfect mortal, simply forgiven by God — Daily.

I will be sending a link of this posting to all parties involved.  I hope that they can find the place to forgive an old fool like me.

Nuremberg Defense

I do not know quite where to start.  One minute, I am somewhat respected blogger.  The next, I am writing my defense paper.  I somewhat now know how Glenn Back feels.  One difference, Glenn Beck has a great deal more money than I do.  It appears that my stick poking at some women has caused a bit of a negative reaction; and they have really done their homework.  Hell, they did everything but post my damned social security number!  They would have done that, if they knew they would not have gotten into legal trouble for it.

What am I referring?  It appears that the two lovely women that I took a rather broad handed swipe at did not like it one bit.  In fact, bluntly, I do believe I may have pissed those old bitties off!  You can go read the laundry list of accusations against me; it is such a depressing read really.  You would think that I was some sort of Neo-Nazi or at least a Klan supporter.

Now what I did I do, to deserve such scrutiny by the Semite-Baiting crowd?

I said the J-Word!

Horrors!  Off with my head!  Shoot him at sunrise!  Hang him at dawn!  How dare this fiend dare to challenge the Neo-Conservative Ring-Wing establishment!

I may as well have yelled “Whore!” at a feminist rally.

Therefore, yes, they are after me and after me good. A price must be paid I suppose, for being a smart-mouthed, opinionated, person such as me.

Now, what is my defense?  Not much really, they have their facts somewhat correct.  I will explain some of the stuff and even try to salvage what sort of credibility I might have left.  Not that it will really make any difference to these Semite-Baiters, they have their mission and nothing I will say or even do will make any difference to them at all.

  1. The Stormfront Account:  Yes, I do have one.  I have owned it for a long time.  Something happened in the media one time, involved this forum.  Therefore, I wanted to snoop around the site and I created the account.  Now, does this mean that I agree one iota with those simpletons about race — specifically Jews and Blacks?  No, it does not.  As for what I may have written there — it is called engaging one’s self in conversation with them, as to figure out how they think and to borrow a phrase, what makes them tick.  I am, without apology, a morbidly curious person.  I am also a writer.  One has to know one’s subject well, if one is going to write with authority about a subject.
  2. Michelle Malkin:  This was one of things, which I did, that I am not proud of — I can really only tell you the truth about it.  Before I do, please, bear in mind that before I was a smart mouthed Conservative writer, that I was a left-leaning smart mouthed writer.  Having said that, here is the damned truth about that idiotic stunt that I pulled that happened over three or more years ago.  Michelle Malkin wrote something that just flat out pissed me off.  It has been so damned long ago; that I have totally forgotten what it was, I know that it involved kids, and her giving out personal information about the parents of those kids.  So, I thought, “huh, if she can give out personal information about people, why cannot I give HER personal information out?” and I so, I did a google search for “Michelle Malkin Address” and a website came up, which had her address, telephone numbers and cell phone numbers.  I let out an evil laugh and fired off a blog posting with her information, and aerial shot of her house!  That will fix her red wagon!  The posting was up for all of, um, maybe an hour?  A message popped into my inbox — from a good friend of hers, she had not lived in that house for 3 years!  D’oh! I pulled that posting and prayed to God in Heaven that no one went to that house.  Now, did I feel a bit silly?  You Betcha!  Do I hate Michelle Malkin?  No.  Her style of “Slash and Burn” Political writing is not my style.  However, I would very remiss, if I did not mention that she sticks up for our Military.  In fact, it was one of her stories on her blog, that about sent me into a monkey shit fit of biblical proportions.  It was when some idiot anti-war sleaze ball decided that it would be cool to pour cutting oil on the Vietnam War memorial in D.C.  It was the reading of that story, and a series of other events; that caused me to say, “You know, the Democrats are just not my party anymore.”  I will say one thing — I was told by some friends of mine, that the reason why Michelle Malkin moved to Colorado was that someone decided to post her address on a liberal forum, I heard it was Democratic Underground.  Anyhow, I had zero to do with that incident and I would like to find out whom it was that did that crap.  Now, what I was told might be untrue.  However, I want her and her friends to know, that I regret now doing that idiotic nonsense.  At the time, I knew nothing about her or how many children she had or anything of that sort.  Had I known that, I would never, ever pulled a stunt like that.  I would have just ignored it and moved on.
  3. The Michael Hendrix Incident: Once again, I made rather stupid mistake.  When in the heat of the battle, you say and do things, which later you think to yourself, “What the hell did I do that for?”  What happened was, I got a slight tap on the ass for some co-blogger at cold fury for saying that I happened t respect the John Birch Society.  The dude called me stupid.  I being the dude that was raised in the ghetto, I let the shit fly.  I went for the juggler vein.  In the process of that little sword fight, I ended up insulting Mike’s dead wife!  First, off, at the time, I did not know what Mike’s last name even was; much less whom the person was, that was listed on the blog as being deceased.  Put bluntly, I fucked up. When I did find out who she was, I did pray that God would turn the earth back about six good revolutions and let time go backward.  So, that someone could scream in my ear, “THAT’S HIS FUCKING DECEASED WIFE YOU IDIOT!”  —- No such luck on that one, time is still dragging on and I still feel like a damned chump about that.
  4. My supposed Hatred of Jews, Blacks, and other Minorities: Let me answer this one like this.  I am doing rather well for someone whose cousin was brutally murdered by two black Detroit police officers and a Mexican Police Officer back in the 1990’s.  I make no bones about it; I hate identity Politics of ALL stripes — Including the special treatment of ANY race.  If that makes me an Anti-Semite, that so be it.

Therefore, there you have it — My Nuremberg Defense.  I believe that I have answered the charges leveled at me, by a group of people whose mission in life is to ruin anyone who dares challenge the Neo-Conservative right.  I make no apologies for my wit, sarcasm, and ability to make heads explode, on the left or right.  It is what I do. Buckley did it, Taki Theodoracopulos does it very well, Richard Spencer does it well, and I will continue to do it here.  If you read this and feel that need to complain to ad companies, which exist on this blog, therefore to hang me for my so-called crimes, and disrupt my ability to buy my medicine, do please feel free.  However, please, do not call yourself a Conservative — Because that, which you are doing to me, is not even remotely Conservative.  What you doing, is in line with the Uber-Liberal Left, they are the intolerant ones, and they are the ones who have attacked me for daring to challenge the President in the past.  You should at least be honest and align yourselves with them.

So… there, the truth, my defense, as God as my witness — I will accept whatever becomes of this nonsense and act accordingly.

The Extremely Sadly Obligatory “People think President Obama is a Muslim more and more everyday” Posting

Sigh….

Why must I write about insanely stupid things such as this?

I mean, is being a moderate Conservative automatically a mandate to sign on with the stupid now? If it is, I must have not have gotten the memo on this at all.  Because this bunch of blatant stupidity, I find to be most distressing — almost to the point of shutting my blog and disappearing from Politics altogether.

What I am griping about, is this incredibly stupid poll out, which says that more and more people believe that President Obama is a Muslim.  I mean the man’s Father gives to his kid an Arab middle name, because the man was a Muslim at one time, and everyone freaks and says, “He’s a Muslim!” or in some quarters, “He’s a nigger Muslim!”  —- Depending on where you are, north or south of the Mason-Dixon Line.  Yes, I went there, you are very welcome.  Figure if Dr. Laura can go there, so can I.

Seriously, folks, I am honestly beginning to wonder if some members of the Anglo-Saxon race are not inflicted with some sort of incurable disorder.  I like to call it “Negro-Phobia,” White people are honestly frightened by anyone that looks, talks, acts, and even sounds different than they do.  This is 2010, I thought we were over such nonsense; after all, we did elect the Nation’s first black President.  Nevertheless, this nonsense is still being polled about, talked about and blogged about.

My question to my fellow Conservative is this; do you people honestly believe that this sort of idiotic nonsense is going to get the Republicans elected back into office in November?  I mean, seriously!

What is fueling this sort of nonsense?  Fear —– You know damned well the Republicans are playing that little card for all it is worth.

Look, I know the President is a socialist I get that.  However, to accuse a man of lying about what his Religious leanings are,  is just plain underhanded tripe.  I mean, has all of the damned intellectualism disappeared out of the Conservative side of the Political fence for God’s sake?  Have all of the men of wisdom within the ranks of Conservationism been replaced with Hillbilly Mouth breathing idiots, who have no concept of any sort intellectual thought?

I will not try to mislead my readers — at this point, I am seriously beginning to believe that Conservatives have officially jumped the damned shark on this little subject.  I am not ready to official change to another political stripe or anything; because I have learned too much about the left, and much of it, I cannot stand.  Nevertheless, this nonsense of accusing the first black President of the United States about lying to America, as to what God his subscribes to, is just very ridiculous.

Is this what the Republican Party has become?  The President of the United States, who happens to be black and have Arab middle name has a dinner with a group of Muslims.  The President tells a group of Arabs that are visiting the White House, that this Park 51 site — has the legal, not the moral, but the legal right to build in New York City and that the United States Government will not interfere with this process — and alone, that makes him a Muslim?

Another example: The economy is not recovering as fast or a well as the Democrats had hoped and that somehow means that President Obama is some sort cryptic-Muslim socialist that wants to overthrow the capitalistic system in America, and introduce us to Sharia law and Communism.

Do not laugh; I have heard such stuff out of the mouth of Glenn Beck himself and from other well-known Conservative Bloggers.

If this all somehow sounds familiar to some of my older readers, it should, the same very thing was said about President John F. Kennedy.  There were actually Conservatives and yes, some Democrats who were going around shrieking that Kennedy would be taking orders from Rome.  You see, Kennedy was Catholic and back in those days, a Catholic had never served as President of the United States.  In fact, the issue got so bad, that Kennedy had to address the Southern Baptist Convention in 1960 to convince them and the rest of America that he would not be taking orders from Rome.

Fortunately, back then, it worked.

What you did not have in 1960 were Conservative Bloggers who were “hell bent” on destroying a President, for the simple fact that he is a Black Democrat.  However, today, you do have them and there are many of them.

Look, I am going to make an admission to you all.  I did not create this blog to attempt to destroy President Obama.  I started this blog to criticize the President of the United States on his policies, when I thought that they were wrong, dumb, and misguided, and I will continue to do so.  However, what I will not partake in is the silly idiotic partisan rumormongering that is not based on facts.

Having said all of that let me give an open message to the Conservative and Republican Blogging community:

I will not partake in this stupidity and if this is, what is required to be in with the “Cool Kids” in Conservative blogger, then by all means, count me is an outsider — Because I want nothing to do with this sort of stupidity.

Memeorandum drops me again

Good old Memeorandum removed me from the list of blogs to scan again.

It’s my own damned fault too. 🙄

I’ve been staying up a bit late and not been getting up early.

Anyhow, I’m cutting out the late nights. I got to make this project work and sleeping half the day away is not going to get it done.

 

 

Site Numbers

Total counter state:

Hits: 525370
Hosts: 311104
Visitors: 371497
Sessions: 412006

From the beginning of the month:

Hits: 13673
Hosts: 8687
Visitors: 10197
Sessions: 11346
New Visitors: 8945

Last week:

Hits: 7864
Hosts: 5582
Visitors: 6053
Sessions: 6445
New Visitors: 5039

Wowzers! 😯

Thanks to all the faithful and the new people!

Some Sad News

Welp, my friends, I have some sad news.

The 1990 Mercury cougar is going to the junk yard on Monday.

Driver side window is FUBAR. Like the passenger side, the window motor is fine, the actuator is Hosed.

Plus there’s about 5 other things screwed up with that Ford reject. So, She’s going to auto grave yard on Monday. I did get my money’s worth out of it. Just need something a bit better.

NO MORE MONEY PITS!

Donations accepted and deeply appreciated! Otherwise, I’m stranded. 🙁

……and will be looking for work.

The heap that's headed to the Junk Yard on Monday.