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Sorry, but real life called

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As I sit here at 6:15 a.m. I feel I should explain my absence from blogging last night.

I was a bit busy. Ended up getting a new cable box. Comcast wanted to replace the old one, here’s a pic:

Old Cable Box

Here’s the new one:

Tiny little thing, ain't it?

Another shot of the Tiny New Cable Modem Box

Here’s a wide shot of the Modem Box, Wireless Router and 8 Port Wired Router. All are Linksys. Modem Box is an RCA.

The internet crap stack

Pardon the dust and the mess. I am a guy after all. 😉 😛 😀

So, that is what I was up too after about 4:00, Internet techy got here at about 4:50. He swapped out the boxes. Smart guy, was African-America or as some call it; black. Quite smart and very friendly. I did not mention what I do on the internet.

So, anyhow, he left, I putzed around getting everything back up and running; so my parents wouldn’t go into Facebook games withdrawal. Then it dawned on me, I was freakin’ starving. So, I grabbed a little bite to eat. By then it was around 6:00 or so. My Dad had an eagles club meeting, so, I was designated dinner picker upper. So, I did that, ate my supper. Then, dad arrived home and then asked me to go get him some of those Swisher Sweet Cigars, strawberry flavored, that he just loves to smoke… (The man is a weirdo….). I went to the usual place and they, naturally, were out. So, I went back home and informed him he’d have to go find them elsewhere.

By this time it was 8:30, and I watched what little of Bill O’Reilly’s show that I was able to watch. By 9:00 I was beat to hell. I zonked out. Slept heavy too. Woke back up around Midnight and took my meds. I also woke up hungry enough to eat a small horse. So, I grabbed a snack. A big mac and a small fry only goes so far. 😉 So, Anyhow, I’ve been awake ever since. I am starting to yawn here. So, I’ll most likely lay down here for a few hours and grab some shuteye and be up later on this afternoon. It isn’t like there’s anything earth shattering happening anyhow.

So, apologies to those who were wondering where I was. Once and while I do have a life and do have to attend to other matters. 😀

Video: We Are The World 25 for Haiti

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There are some who would criticize me for doing this.

Two Words: Screw ‘Em. 😡

Here’s the video:

We are the World Foundation Website

Donate Here

There will a widget on this blog on the left hand side, until this group work is done.

Some things are much broader and deeper than politics. I am a human being and an American first and a Conservative second.

Cutting bait

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I hate having to do it.  However, I believe in standing up for one’s convictions.  Therefore, if you look in my Blogroll section, you will see that I removed two names.  I did this because I am sick and tired of the little game being played by a Blogger, of whom I will never link to again; the game is this, if you do not support Sarah Palin, I will not link to you or anything.  I requested some help and was told barefaced lie; all because I happen to think, Sarah Palin is an idiot dolt.  I hate to be a prick about it, but two can play that game.  Say goodbye to your place on my blogroll sir.

Therefore, In essence, I am cutting bait with him and his crowd.  Oh, I am not joining the left.  I am just going to be quite selective whom I associate myself with from now on. I may do some more removing of names that I really do not feel comfortable having on my blog. I tried the “Do not harm” approach and I see it is getting me nowhere.  That is, because if you do not fit in with their little clan, (or should I say Klan?) you are ignored, lied to, and so forth.

I tried to be the nice person, I tried to look past other people’s opinions; but it just did not work.  Therefore, I am done with it.  From here on out, I am looking out for me and myself only.  Screw the rest of them.

New Lower Prices on Ad Spaces

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Just thought I would let all my readers know, that I have dropped my prices for premium ad space on here.

Click here to look at the prices on the left side and click here to look at the ones for the right side. (they’re the same…)

I also have an ad space at the bottom. It’s all done through BlogAds, which has some very cool Ad Networks at well. I belong to the following:

If you like, you can support the bloggers on these ad networks. For what it is worth, I accept most ads. Except for anything of an “Adult” Nature or anything, that I feel is of a liberal nature as well. I always approve all ads, before I display them. It is all done through PayPal, so, I don’t hassle with the money.

My Ads are the lowest in the business, I tried raising them, but I guess people just are not buying high priced ads. So, they’re back where they belong; low, so everyone can afford them.

So, if you’ve got a start up business, a special interest group or a PAC, advertise here at Political Byline!

Updated – I feel the need to clear some things up

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As you all know, I had a run in with a dude calling himself the “Fat Libertarian“, In his final e-mail to me, he made this little quip, which I found to be most humorous:

Websites like yours and Hotair make a living going after Ron Paul.  So when people who like Ron Paul who believe in his principles defend him, you don’t expect some debate to happen?

The only reason I filmed your blog was because you revealed a level of stupidity that I thought was newsworthy for a relatively popular blog.

I understand you have more blogging to do, so get to it.  Consider this “debate” over.

His snide remark about me being stupid aside, I do believe this guy in under some impression that my blog is like one of the big dog’s in the “Right Wing”, if you will, Blogosphere.

Well, that’s certainly news to me!

I’m going to share to some screen shots here…

First off I hardly consider this to be making a living:

I hardly consider this to be making a living...(click to make bigger)

So much for that guy who's making a living off of Ron Paul eh?

That 199.84 was for one month, there was time, when I was lucky if I cleared like 30 bucks in a month. Note, when adsense pays me come the 28’th of this month, I will not get all of this, I may walk away with around $140.00 or so, If I am lucky. Adsense is all Pay per click…

Boy, look at all that money I make from ripping on Ron Paul... NOT!

Boy, look at all that money I make from ripping on Ron Paul... NOT!

These stats are from Connect Commerce, which was bought out by Google. It’s all pay per action ads. It’s the ones, like that ad with jeep on the left. I’ve made exactly jack shit on those ads, so far. Not one person has bought a single thing, yet. So, much for rolling in the dough eh? To be fair, I just joined the program, with the promise from them, that I’d be swimming in the dough in no time flat… So much for that… 🙄 I knew better, but I am a sucker for a good sales pitch.

But say, “Oh he must be making money on those inline text links!”

Well, um, here’s the screenshot:

Look at all that BIG MONEY! NOT!

I’ve yet to get payment from them as well. So much for that little “talking point” eh?

Now, some of you, including my liberal libertarian buddy may thing I’m swimming in the paypal donations right? Hmmm:

Man, so many donations, I dunno what I will do with all that money... (Yeah, right!)

As for his remarks about me being a popular blogger. Ha! That’s another good one. 🙄

Let’s see here:

My Traffic ranking compaired to other well-known Conservative sites

More of that...

and even more....

And a little bit more....

So, there you have it. Sure, I could sit back here and lie my ass off and tell everyone, “Yeah, I am a big dog..” But, nope, not me. When I get 3200 hits around here, which is not very often, it is a good day. Usually, I bring in about 600 hits… on a good day.

Why am I doing all of this?

Because I believe in honesty. No matter if it hurts me or not. Because I just do not have any ego about this at all. There are some cats that are in this business that have their egos all wrapped up in their blogs and they will do anything to make themselves look good —- including stepping on others. I am just not on that kind of trip at all. I said my piece about Ron Paul and instantly, I am a big blogger on a Neo-Con mission. Nothing could be further from the truth about that.

So, there you have it. Make of it, what thou wilt.

Update: R.S. McCain makes good some points as well. Although, I tend to think that he thought that I was whining. Far from it; I was just being truthful about what I make on this little boondoggle project. Also 600 hits around here is about normal. When the Earthquake in Haiti hit, I blogged on that and my hits went way over 3k. So, it’s a toss. Some days I do well, and some days, I just write. 😉 I just wish that everyone one of those 3k people that visited my blog had kicked 20 bucks into the tipjar. I’d be living easy street then! But, ah well, no complaining here. I’m just happy to have the freedom to write. 😀

Memo to the Paul-Bots: You guys are not welcome around here no more

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I guess this is what happens, when I try to be civil to people.  A few days ago, I wrote about a video that I happened to see over on HotAir.com, it was about Ron Paul and him yowling on about how evil the C.I.A and how they were co-opting the Military.  It was, if felt, a very stupid and borderline Alex Jones sounding nonsense.

Not entirely surprising, some of Ronnie Paul’s little sock puppets and mindless stooges came over to make their inane arguments about how wrong I was, and have horribly evil the Government is and so forth.  At first, I thought about deleting them, but I figured I would be a little charitable and let them have their say, I also notified a friend of mine, who one of the commenters slandered, my friend said he was not too worried about what this person said, and so, I decided I would try to engage these people.

This proved to be a foolish mistake, because right now, sitting on one a man’s blog, who calls himself, “The Fat Libertarian.” Who’s actually name is Robert Timsah, and who lives at [snipped]-— on his blog, which I will never link to, is a video of him discussing my responses to his idiotic feelings about me, Republicans; of which I am not affiliated with, or Neo-Cons, which I am not — mainly because I am not Jewish.  With the Ron Paul people, as with the Liberal Left, Neo-Con is code word for some sort of Jewish cabal.  Anyhow, this video was shot without my consent, approval, or even knowledge.  Which could be grounds for a major lawsuit, should I desire to pursue this in a court of law.

In any event, I removed the discussion with this man and his libertarian sock puppets, because I was essentially set up.  Therefore, here is my message to the Ron Paul-ites who read this blog:

YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE ANYMORE…

I am the nicest person you would ever want to meet, rarely am I a “Hard Ass” about anything.  However, when I decide to give someone a chance and that person abuses that chance, I stop being a nice person.  Since one of the Ron Paul idiots decided that deceiving me and filming contents of my blog, without my authorization would be cute, I have decided stop Ron Paul’s fans from having any say on my blog, ever again.  I am all for freedom of speech, but when those who believe in freedom of speech decide to engage in deception, that freedom stops with me.

As for the video, I reported it to youtube, hopefully, they pull it, as my rights were violated here, in a big way.  I may also pursue this in a court of law.  I do have an attorney friend of mine, who owes me a big favor.  I did some web consulting work for him once, and he told me, if I ever had a legal problem to call him.  I might check with him on Monday.

So, to the Ron Paul people, consider yourselves persona non gratia around these parts.

Update: This “Fat Libertarian” was kind enough to remove the video, so, I removed his address. But my feelings about these people remain unabated.

Message to commenter GWSSDelta

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You are hereby banned from commenting on this blog — for good.

That last crack about MLK was it for me.

I have added you to the idiot filter.

If any other bloggers are having issues with this guy let me know, and I’ll get his IP address to you.

Not only are your silly sarcastic comments not funny, they are borderline offensive.

For what it is worth, me and this bean-head have had issues in the past. A friend of mine, said give him a chance and I did, and he did just what I thought he would do.  So, he’s done, added to the idiot filter, where he belongs.

If he continues to try and leave comments here, I will contact his Internet provider and let them know what he is up to.

The truth is, this is MY Blog, I do pay the bandwidth bill and I do not HAVE to deal with idiots like THAT, at all!

That is all.

Just a quick FYI

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Yesterday was an insane day for traffic around here.

Here are the Stats:

Pageviews: 3,707

Top Referrers:

Referrer Views
googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-a… 252
beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/lat… 129
stumbleupon.com/refer.php?url=http%3A… 56
hotair.com/archives/2010/01/13/video-… 29
google.com 15
powerlineblog.com 15
digg.com/world_news/Updated_Latest_Ne… 13
hotair.com/archives/2010/01/13/pat-ro… 9
prolifeblogs.com/articles/aggregator.… 9
superkev.net/2010/01/12/on-the-backs-… 8
firstthings.com/blogs/theanchoress/20… 8
google.com/m?client=ms-android-tmobil… 7
twitter.com 5

Top Postings:

Updated – Latest News on Hati Earthquake – As many as 100,000 feared dead 2,144
BREAKING NEWS – 7.0 quake hits Haiti 401
Google Says to China, ‘If you keep hacking our servers, We will leave China’ 265
Home page 98
Video: Jack Cafferty rips on Obama and Pelosi?!?! 95
This is not going to help Coakley’s cause 71
BREAKING NEWS: Michael Yon arrested at Seattle airport 62
Video: Lock and Load Show: Accuracy International AW.308 61
Cocaine use, in the White House? 60
Conservative Christianity’s resident idiot yowls out his butt, again 45
Awwwww…. – Cute Photo of the Day 34
Looks like that TeaParty Convention is not what it is cracked up to be 20
Living Proof that Socialist Liberals are Classless Assholes 16
One of most best de-motivators ever! 13
Dede Scozzafava calls the cops on The Weekly Standard’s John McCormack 13
Are the Democrats jumping from the ship? 13
The United States Marines is 234 years old today 13

Search Engine Data:

Search Views
hati earthquake 765
earthquake hati 273
haiti breaking news 144
hati earth quake 59
hati news 40
hati 19
earth quake hati 18
news on hati 17
hati earthquakes 16
hati earthquake news 15
hatiearthquake 14
hati death toll 13
marines 11
hati quake 11
hati earthquake death toll 9
news hati 8
hati eathquake 8
hati earthquake video 6
carl vinson hati 6
earthquake hati 2010 6
john mccormack weekly standard 6
fox news hati 6
red cross hati 6
hati earthquack 5
hati fox news 5

Top Clicks:

URL Clicks
cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/13/hai… 33
foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582877,00.ht… 29
blog.savejersey.com/2010/01/12/white-… 27
google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALe… 21
youtube.com/watch?v=8IySBl2aq-A 12
newsroom.redcross.org/2010/01/12/disa… 11
superkev.net/2010/01/12/on-the-backs-… 11
msnbc.msn.com/id/34829978/ns/world_ne… 10
michaelyon-online.com 7
weeklystandard.com/blogs/video-someon… 6
firstthings.com/blogs/theanchoress/20… 6

I thank everyone who took the time to stop by and do hope that this leads to bigger numbers, more readers and hopefully, more ads clicked.

Speaking of that…

Here’s how I did on Adsense yesterday:

Page impressions Clicks Page CTR Page eCPM [?] Estimated earnings

AdSense for Content 3,931 37 0.94% $2.44 $9.59

AdSense for Mobile 741 0 0.00% $0.00 $0.00

AdSense for Feeds 29 0 0.00% $0.00 $0.00

– No data available –
Total estimated earnings $9.59

Bandwidth Used: 17.26 Gig

For what it might be worth, these numbers are not my normal average.  On an average day, I am lucky if I get 600 visits here in a day.

Switched back to my original theme

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As you can tell, I have switched back to the theme, that I had been using for the last 8 months. I am using a bit older of a version of that theme. The one I was running before I upgraded and started having problems with it.

Anyhow, I will change the rotating header images, what I get the gumption to do so. I personally think they are quite pretty myself. But this a political blog; I should have something political looking up there. 😛

Anyhow, so, we’re back to square one, at the moment. I may just keep this one, it looks pretty and it does what I want it to do.

Thanks for putting up with the ever-changing look of the joint.

Top Stuff of 2009

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Here is the top “Stuff” of 2009 on this Blog.

The top posting on Political Byline for 2009 is a posting, that I did sort of on a lark. It was one, that I like to refer to as an “In between posting.” I had just pushed out some rather impressive posts, that were about the politics of that day; and I was waiting for some more information to come out about another story, and I had noticed some postings had come up about Republicans lying about healthcare. So, I went, “Hmmm, didn’t Obama do some pretty big lying during the 2008 election?” and So, I asked anyone on twitter, if there was any videos up about Obama lying. The response was overwhelming to say the least! So, I hopped over to YouTube and just typed in “Obama Lies” and woo boy! ——  Talk about results! So, anyhow, I picked out three of the best videos of the lot, just typed up article that had a bit of a conspiratorial tone to it and put it up. I never expected in a million years that this posting would even be read by one person, much less 4,350 people!

So, yes, my top posting on 2009 is:

Lies, Damned Lies and more Lies

Runners up are: A posting that I ended up pulling, Answering Laurence Vance, Updated: Why I left the libertarian ranks: Exhibit A – Hatred of the United States Military, The ‘Hey, that’s a pretty new gun!’ posting of the month, Helen Thomas goes nuclear over the Obama Administration’s controlled Townhall meetings and controlled press, Obama Bows to his Arab Masters.

Top Referrers:

These are the URL’s who have sent me the most traffic for the last year. The winner is, hands down, StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon was, in 2009, what DIGG and REDDIT where in 2007. It sends me a TON of traffic.

Anyhow, here’s the up URLS that sent me traffic:

Referrer Views
stumbleupon.com/refer.php?url=http%3A… 3,691
stumbleupon.com/refer.php?url=http%3A… 2,099
lewrockwell.com/blog 1,998
memeorandum.com 1,720
stumbleupon.com/refer.php?url=http%3A… 1,456
freedomsphoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?… 1,317
rsmccain.blogspot.com 1,233
stumbleupon.com/refer.php?url=http%3A… 1,172
stumbleupon.com/refer.php?url=http%3A… 1,087
stumbleupon.com/refer.php?url=http%3A… 1,081
lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/0… 1,054
totalfark.com 1,052
stumbleupon.com/refer.php?url=http%3A… 874
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 862
reddit.com/new 830
twitter.com 748
freedomsphoenix.com/Freedom-Header.ht… 747

Top Search Terms for this Blog were:

Search Views
allan colmes 999
babe of the day 695
fema coffins debunked 499
motivators 442
melissa doi 420
obama booty 332
funny motivators 303
michael moore is an idiot 253
demotivators 246
akron police investigate teen mob attack 244
clarence mcclendon scandal 239
randi rhoads 210
brittany murphy 208
allan keyes 198
political byline 194

The Top Clicked URL’s were:

URL Clicks
russellbrand.tv 197
youtube.com/watch?v=y6xWGvdRQ9Q 151
blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/arc… 122
is.gd/4KrHM 122
impactguns.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/cli… 120
wired.com/wired/archive/6.12/murder.h… 120
americanrifleman.org/ArticlePage.aspx… 109
drudgereport.com 103
themudflats.net/2009/07/26/sarah-pali… 102

In 2009, this Blog had a total of 225,280 visitors, not including me. The average user, per day, was 617 visitors per day. Which does not take in account some of the huge traffic spikes around here.

Now, those stats were according to WordPress.com Stats, which by the way, is an excellent WordPress plug in.

According to GoStats.com, which is an excellent counter for blogs and such. here are my yearly stats:

Page Views: 255,774

IP Hosts: 147,601

Unique Visitors: 178,892

Unique Sessions: 197,491

Now according to GoStats.com, which I find to be a bit more accurate that WordPress.com Stats, for some reason:

My Week averages were:

Page Views: 886

IP Hosts: 534

Unique Visitors: 598

Unique Sessions: 653

So, there you have it. Those numbers are not to shabby for someone who really has not done any advertising at all. Oh, I’ve done a little on Blogads, and project wonderful, but nothing to the extent of others. Another thing too, this is a single author blog and many of those have low numbers. So, all in all, it was a good year. I did well, made some money, and some enemies. But, it was all worth it to me. Standing up for what is right, is what I do here and if I happen to make some people angry in the process, I count it par for the course.

Of course, I have you all to thank for it. All of you who donated, all of you, who clicked on the ads, all of you, who just came and read. All of you who linked in, you know who you are; I thank each and every one of you. I thank you for coming, for linking and for honestly caring enough to keep coming around. I am humbled by the numbers, this is not about me. This about you, about America, standing for what we believe in, standing for the America that I remember as a boy, growing up.

Now it is time to move on to 2010. We have some great battles ahead; the 2010 elections are coming. This is not time to slack, we must be strong, we have to be ready, we must be vigilant; we are at war, against terrorists; who wish to destroy this nation; against Socialists who wish to destroy our world, as we know it today. The battle lines have been drawn. We must, as the saying goes, Fight on!

To a Prosperous,  Healthy, and Yes, Victorious 2010!

Update: This is what makes what I do here, worth every minute.

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I received this e-mail tonight, I will not reveal her e-mail address or IP. But I will show you what she wrote.

Delivered-To: tpblogeditor@gmail.com
To: tpblogeditor@gmail.com
Subject: Keep up the good work.
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:37:43 -0500
From: Janet

Hello,

Just wanted to say that your blog is on my daily reading list.

Great job on your coverage of events and on your posts!

Keep up the good work.

Sincerely,

Janet

I wrote her back and asked if I could publish her e-mail, this is what I got back:

Delivered-To: tpblogeditor@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:17:49 -0500
Subject: Re: Keep up the good work.
From: Janet
To: Patrick

Hi Patrick,

Yes. Please do.

I wanted to say something else if I may. I too was a liberal. However, on
9/11/01, I had an epiphany which changed me to a Freedom loving
conservative.

Our son was two months old, and I stood in my living room and looked at my
husband in horror
as the news reported the flights that were hijacked and used to kill
thousands of Americans.

My husband was scheduled on the 8:00am American Airlines Flight 11, which
was scheduled from Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, to
Los Angeles International Airport. The only difference was that his flight
was on 9/13/01 instead of 9/11/01.

I realize today that my dear little boy might never have know his father.
Amazing the difference a day or two can make in your life.

Cheers,

janet

Janet, Thank you so very much for your e-mail. It is little stuff like this, that makes every little snide comment that I have to delete, every nasty e-mail that I have to deal with, every blogger who has written bad stuff about me; worth it. I like you Janet, was someone who was a Democrat voter, that changed my views after starting this Blogging adventure. I have said this before, and I believe some of my readers might not believe this, but it is the truth. This blogging stuff have NEVER, EVER, EVER been about the money, ever. If it was, I would have QUIT DOING THIS LONG AGO! Now if I happen to make a little money in the process, fine and dandy, but, my motivation is NOT money! This blog is simply my virtual protest against what I consider to be wrong and that is the big Government socialism of the far left. This here is what keeps me going, not lust for money, not pride. This, in the words of the Republican, Martin Luther King Jr.:

God Bless You All and Happy New Year! See you in 2010!!!! 😀

Update: I think I will update this, before any idiot socialist, Democratic Party, serial whiner gets wind of this and accuses me of anything stupid, like they are so known for. First off all, Martin Luther King was a registered Republican; that comes directly from his niece. Second of all, if you remove the subject of Whites and blacks, and put in Socialists versus those who love our Freedoms. (Not just Republicans…. Democrats too!) The video fits. Third of all; Martin Luther King was fighting SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS, who thought that Blacks were inferior to White people! Which I know and everyone else, who isn’t some sort of idiot, brain-dead, White Nationalist — is stupid.

I fight the good fight of faith. I cannot serve in the Military, they won’t take me, I am too old, plus, Physically I am not in good shape, so… I fight here. In the Internet realm. Pushing back against the socialist machine… It is the fight for my life. I know that I fight for the rights of others, for freedom, and for the Republic!

God Bless You All and Happy New Year! See you in 2010!!!!

The Huffington Post links to Moi?

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Color me shocked and quite amazed. 😯

I guess my posting on Laura Ingraham and Bill O’Reilly having an On-The-Air spat was noticed by Huffpo and they even linked here.

Wow. 😮

I would have much preferred a direct quote or something. But hey, it’s free traffic and I will take it, when I can get it.

I guess that marble-mouthed woman that runs that site ain’t so bad after all. She’d be much better, if she’d take an English course; but I digress.

Now, if Glenn Beck would just notice me, I’d be living on easy street. 😉 😛

Blog Milestone: 4000 Blog Entries

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I know this might sound silly to some of you. However, I do like to celebrate small milestones. Sometime in the last few days, this blog passed a rather remarkable milestone. Since this blogs original creation back on the last week of December of 2007, I have posted over 4000 blog entries. When this posting goes live, I will have officially created 4010 entries on this blog. Some may think that this meaningless; however, for a single author blog, who is doing it daily, that is quite a bit.

I do have to thank all of you for your daily readership. This blog, in the last few months has really taken off. Along the way, I have attracted some criticism; some possibly well deserved, the majority of it comes from people who simply disagree with my political stance. A very small percentage of it comes from hatemongering asses that have nothing better to do than attack someone like me, who is in my position, which is quite humorous, because I hear from a very good source that this said person who attacked me, and made some very nasty statements about me, has lost readership over it. One of which in fact, e-mailed me and said he was never reading that blog again and made a rather large and quite handsome donation to my blog. Speaking of which, if you feel so inclined you can donate to my Blog. I am not a proud man at all, I will accept any and all donations to my blog. However, do not feel like it is a requirement or anything like that, times are tough and I will not hold it over anyone’s head or anything like that. However, I will usually follow up with personal e-mail thanking those who do donate to me.

Again, thanks for your ever-loyal readership and let us try for other 4000 or so blog posts, shall we?

Update on Dad

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Just a note regarding my Father.

Things went better than we thought. My Dad’s doctor dad did the dye procedure. No major blockage, so, no stints. Although, he does have some disease of the heart. and his heart is slightly enlarged. Which the doctor believes is due to sleep aphemia. He will be sending him for a sleep study.

So, the worst is over and he is not nearly is bad, as we had feared.

He also said my dad needs to stop smoking. HEH! Good luck with that! 😆

Thanks for your prayers and thoughts!

Thoughts & Prayers needed for my Dad

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As some of you might know that read this blog regularly might know; I do live with my Parents. That, in itself is a very long story. Anyhow, My Father will be going into the hospital tomorrow morning at around 8:00 a.m. or so, to have a very important heart procedure done. They are going to run a dye into his bloodstream to check and see if there is any blockage and if there is, they will be putting stints in. There is, although not probable, a slight chance that my Dad could need open-heart surgery while they are in there doing that work. Therefore, needless to say, I will be quite occupied for the next few days. There is good news however; I will be taking the laptop to the hospital with me; as so, I do not go crazy with boredom in the hospital.

Everyone that knows me well will tell you; that I hate hospitals with a passion. I do tend to avoid them as much as humanly possible. However, this little trip is highly important to me. Therefore, I will be joining my Dad up at the hospital for a good part of the day. I am not sure how long it will take. I am told a good part of the day.

So, I am asking for everyone who either reads this blog daily or even does the occasional drive-by. Please keep my Dad in your thoughts and prayers tomorrow — and for the rest of the week. Also, keep my Mother in your prayers as this all is really making her worry and she is not in the greatest of health either.

Thanks again,

Patrick

Changes here at PoliticalByline.com

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As promised last night, here is the “Special Comment” type of article that I have wanted to write for a while to all of my readers.

This is possibly one of the hardest of articles, which I have ever had to write in my entire life — much less in my time since becoming a political blogger and commentator. Nevertheless, because I do believe in total and transparent honesty, I must not be lack in being forthright with you all.

First, let me say that I have never written dishonestly on this blog, ever. I have written what I felt was the truth in all of my writings here in this blog. However, what I have done is taken my true feelings on a subject and turned up the intensity level to eleven on the amplifier scale. (I hope someone gets that rather humorous reference.) When I first stated writing as a “Right of Center” Blogger, that sort of writing was extremely fun, and I thought to be what I enjoyed doing as a political writer. However, here as of late, I have been seeing some very disturbing trends in the Right Wing Blogosphere and in the Conservative media; that I am just not very comfortable being associated.

When I first started PoliticalByline.com after the hacking of my previous Blog, which was at thepopulistblog.com, I started this blog on the premise that neither of these political parties were political or moral absolutes and I still feel that way now. Yes, my friends, I am a truly a moderate Conservative and I make no apologies for that, at all. What disturbs my greatly at the moment, is that the very word “moderate” within the continuum of the school of Conservatism, is basically a death-keel to anyone who disagrees with the far left. I find this fact to be extremely troubling. I just cannot find it with my realm of reasoning to understand why, if someone like me does not subscribe to some of the more extremist rhetoric emanating from the far right, that somehow I am not considered a bona fide Conservative.

Having said all of the above; let me also say this, my philosophy towards those on the right that I disagree with is this — Do no harm. What I mean by this that is this — even though I do not agree with those, that I have put into my sections called “To the right of me” and “To the Left of Me.” I will not be a thorn in their side, because I happen to believe; that everyone is entitled to their opinions, when it comes to Conservative politics. I might blog on the fact that I disagree with their politics, but it will be a fair and non-personal assessment as to why. I did not start this blog to engage in Blog wars with anyone, of any political stripe. I simply started this blog to give my take on the political events of the day. I also created it to be a direct challenge to those of the far left and their socialist mentality; of which why I switched sides and dropped this idea that I was some sort of a populist. Because I just cannot side with idea that Government is the ultimate solution to the Nation’s problems. Historically, The Democratic Party and the People’s Party that sprung out from it, was a populist movement, which was based the idea on what was for the good of the American people. The problem was that the far left socialists overthrew the Democratic Party and turned that party into a big Government socialist party. Therefore, in essence the Democratic Party became a part “of the people” to a party “of the Government.” That is why I decided to stop supporting and voting for them.

Therefore, this is how things are going to change at this blog. First, I am going to write from a more honest approach. No more seeing what other people, who are Conservatives, and then writing from that standpoint. From here on out, I will be writing how I feel about a subject and that alone — no matter the consequence. Second, you will notice that I did add a blog roll category, and changed one. I have added a “Left of Me” Blog roll, which I do intend to fill will sane voices of those who are to the left of me politically. I also added a category of those who are to right of me politically. This is not to be considered a bad thing at all; this list is just a category of those who I consider to be politically further to the right or left of me. I will be also adding other categories as well; so to distinguish Websites from Blogs.

From here on out, I hope this blog to be less about extremism and talking points and a bit more intelligent and intellectually honest. I want this blog to be a bit less Sean Hannity and a bit more like me or a bit less like Michael Savage, and bit more like me.

I hope that my readers will understand where it is that I am coming from and I hope to keep you all informed and give you all my totally honest, unvarnished opinion on the political events and politics of the day. Because the last thing I ever want to be is accused of “Carrying Water” for a particular party or political group. Because that is not what I intend to be or do for anyone.

As for my Conservatism and what type that I represent, I am fiscally a Conservative. As for my social stance, I tend to lean more to the libertarians. I say this because I find much of the philosophy of the Christian far right to be Nazi-in-nature. I am a Christian and I do have a set of morals that I try to abide by, however I am not particularly interested in forcing my personal morals down the throats of those who do not agree with mine.  As for one’s sexual preference, I do not care what or whom you have sex with behind closed doors. Because of my personal convictions, I do not endorse the Gay lifestyle. However, I will defend your right to do what you wish in the privacy of your own home. Anyone that does anything other than that is a damned religious extremist and they will not have my support. However, because I am a federalist, I believe that gay marriage should ALWAYS be an issue for the states to decide and not an issue for the Federal Government ever.

In closing, that you all understand where I am coming from. I felt the need to write this, after reading some of the sillier nonsense that I had been reading on some blogs. I felt the need to let people know what I was feeling and that I needed to change the way this blog was being presented to the masses. Hence the theme change and now, there will be a change in the tone here. I hope that I will not lose any readers and hope to gain some as well.

Thanks for reading,

-Pat

Coming Later Today: An Announcement of the Future of PoliticalByline.com

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A little later today, I will be firing up my handy dandy copy of Microsoft Word 2007 and writing up; what I feel to be a “Special Comment” piece for this blog. As you have noticed, there have been some changes made around here. Well, I am going to explain that and a few other things later today. I’ve been up all night, mostly thinking about how I am going to proceed with this Blog. I will be writing and doing a bit of soul bearing to you, my readers.

Before anyone e-mails me; No, I am not going away. But I am going to do things a bit differently. I will explain more later, I promise.

Stay Tuned.

-Pat

Updated: Yeah, I changed the look —- again

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Like I said earlier, this dude here, e-mailed me about WMD’s. I liked the look of his Blog template, that went and downloaded it and am now using it myself! 😀

It is a bit more modern looking the other one was geared toward more older version of WordPress. This one is newer.

Hope ya’ll like it! 😀

-Pat

Update: I think I’ve settled on a theme that is a keeper. I tried a few and finally, think I have found one that I actually like.

Yeah, I changed the look

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Back in my old days, before I bought this new domain and I was blogging under my old domain. I used to change the farking blog template at least once a week. I made myself a promise that I would not do that here and I won’t.

Anyhow, the old theme had some operational issues and I simply tossed it. It was a great theme, but man was it ever over-thought a bit. Anyhow, I think this one reflects more my laid back personality. (except when I am pissed off…) and the colors are nicer too.

Enjoy and let me know in comments what you think about it. 😀

I’m Back

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Yes, I am back. You did not think I would stay gone for long did you? I just needed to take break from things for a bit. There are a few things, which I really need to make clear and get out into the open.

  1. Women are off limits now:  There will be no more stupid jokes about women or offensive stuff towards woman on this blog anymore. I will keep up what I did post on the blog. Because removing stuff is quite cowardly, except in some extreme cases. However, as of right now, I will not be doing that anymore. I guess I will have to remember that not everyone appreciates my politically incorrect snarky writings and dark humor. For the record, I am not a misogynistic piece of dung, as I so called by so-called “Conservative Lesbian” who obviously lacks a sense of humor. If I truly were, I would not be living were I am now. As my Mom would have none of that. For what it is worth; my Mom voted for Obama and has voted Democrat except when she voted for Reagan. I am very much against political correctness and the very idiotic feminist movement in this country — Because it is an out branch of the liberal mindset. However, I believe I have may have distanced some friends of mine in my quest to stick my finger in the eye of those feminists. I apologize to those that I may have offended; however, I will never apologize for my feelings about the feminist movement and the idiotic political ideology that it comes from.
  2. This blog, nor its author carry water for ANY political party, person, or opinion: Before I get some liberal come by here and say, “What about this here that you wrote?” I wrote what I wrote about Mike Bouchard, because I and many other Michigan residents; both Republican and Democrat know that the Democrats way of handling this recession has been a disaster for this State. I have known this, since the first state recession hit back in 2000; when I was laid off from my job back then, I knew something was horribly wrong and I knew then that the Democrats were causing it. The whole idea that Bush caused the Michigan recession is lie that was perpetuated by the Democrats, because of their inability to take responsibility for their own actions; like NAFTA. Because of this, our State here is in an economic free fall. When it comes to state politics, I do like to vote the principles over the party of the said candidate and right now Mike Bouchard is, as far as I am concerned, the man that Michigan needs for a full-scale economic recovery. Having said all of that, I wish to submit that I do not carry water for either of these political parties. I will explain this in my next point.
  3. Sarah Palin and Me: The reason I got a bit miffed earlier, is that I felt that the Conservative media and blogosphere were in full on stupid mode about Palin. Because of this, I ended tearing into a good friend of mine; and I feel horrible about that. Robert Stacy McCain is just as much entitled to his opinion of Sarah Palin; as I am or Ron Dreher is. I should not have went after McCain like that, I apologize to him publically and to you my readers. I should not have taken the slam of Dreher personally, as I sure that he did not at all. I will be upfront about it; I just do not believe that Sarah Palin is qualified to be President of the United States, at all. Nor will she ever be, in my opinion. I will not support her, if she runs. I will not carry water for her, at all —-There are plenty of blogs and websites that will do that; this will not be one of them. Fiscally, I am quite the Conservative; being in a bankruptcy will do that to a person, so will getting older too, and I feel that Palin’s mushy populism is just that, mushy populism and is not nearly as Conservative, as I would want someone to be, who was going to be in the White House. Another reason I do not much care for her, is that I am more of a libertarian, when it comes to social issues. Just because I do not agree with a particular social item, does not mean I think it is my right to persecute those that do. That my friend is what “Social Conservatism” does. My Conservatism on social matters is more of the “Ron Paul” stripe, honestly, the only thing that scares me worse that the far socialist left is the far religious right. The late Senator Barry Goldwater did not like them, and I am not a big fan either; I cannot support a style of Government that the far religious right wants that is on par with Nazi Fascism, and that is what, I feel, Sarah Palin embodies. For this reason, I would not be compelled to support Sarah Palin if she should decide to run for President. While I am a Born Again Christian; I do not believe that one should mix their personal religious beliefs with their politics, that is a dangerous thing to do and it has caused this Nation an enormous amount of grief in the past 20 years. Like it or not, or mixing of our religious views and our politics is what caused the 9/11 attacks.

In closing, I hope this little editorial has help some of you understand me better and where it is, that I am coming from. By the way, I am glad to see that I am not the only one who is taking the heat. It looks like AllahPundit is making new friends too. But at least, he is not knocking the tent down, like this here:

Ouch.

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