Wow, I got a linking to by a Phil Elmore, who wrote an article for WorldNetDaily.
Well, it is official, I am now officially on my way to right wing hell. 😈 😉 😛 😀
Tag: Announcements
March Fundraiser
Yes, I am doing this again.
Hits are down, a little. I have been making just enough on this blog to pay for my monthly medication prescription refill; for which I am quite grateful. But, like Jeff. I too have needs. I need a better car, than that certified POS that I drive. That way, I can drive the ungodly amount of miles that 90% of these job offers are located at. I also have a piece of equipment for my Amateur Radio Station that needs repair. This is what the rig looks like. It is 60 pounds, and it does have to go to Texas for repairs. It will have to be triple packed and then there is that repair bill. Goodness knows how much it might cost.
There are many more, but these two about cover it. New clothes and shoes and a winter jacket come to mind too.
I know times are tough, but if you can spare a buck or two, it would be greatly appreciated. 🙂
Also know this, I’d be much inclined to blog more, if I were making better ‘cabbage’ at this little venture.
Click the Picture to donate
As Always, all donations are greatly appreciated. 🙂
Taking another break
I just need a break. Blogging about politics right now is quite frankly a bore.
Love to write, but writing like a broken record is not my idea of a good time.
I will be back, might take weeks, might take months, might take years. Who knows.
I won’t be far, just out of the pilot seat for a few days, I guess.
That is all.
Sorry, but real life called
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. 😀
Site numbers for last week
Total counter state:
Hits: 403737
Hosts: 233604
Visitors: 278236
Sessions: 307215
From the beginning of the month:
Hits: 8477
Hosts: 4734
Visitors: 6281
Sessions: 7173
New Visitors: 5877
Last week:
Hits: 4308
Hosts: 2435
Visitors: 3527
Sessions: 3773
New Visitors: 3194
Video: We Are The World 25 for Haiti
There are some who would criticize me for doing this.
Two Words: Screw ‘Em. 😡
Here’s the video:
We are the World Foundation Website
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.
Meh
Nothin’ to blog about today.
Nothing that I want to waste bandwidth on anyhow.
I might go shoot a video of the snow outside.
Robert Stacy McCain, Charles Johnson and Yours Truly
A bit of a more direct follow up to my last posting.
I went back, and looked at the original e-mails exchanged between Me and R.S. McCain, which were also CC’ed to Smitty.
Here’s what happened, I sent R.S. McCain (and Smitty) a e-mail requesting linkage to this posting here. In this e-mail, I TOLD Mr. McCain that the posting would NOT go live till 9:00 A.M. EST. He writes me back the following:
From Robert Stacy McCain
to Patrick ,
Chris Smith
date Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:21 AM
subject Re: Stacy, I need a favor Bud…. 🙂
mailed-by att.net
signed-by att.net8:21 AM (18 hours ago)
That link is returning a 404. — RSM
————– Original message from Patrick : ————–
– Hide quoted text –Stacy,
Would it be too much to ask to get a money bomb going for this guy here?
http://www.politicalbyline.com/2010/02/02/guest-voice-update-from-mike-bouchard/
The posting will be live at 9:00 A.M. EST.
I want to see a Republican, a damn good Republican win the Michigan Governor’s race. Democrats have bankrupted this state good. We need jobs, not more Democratic Party B.S.
Thanks,
-Pat
-Patrick
http://www.politicalbyline.com
Notice the time I have highlighted up there?
Two things that come to mind. Either Stacy is a complete DOLT, when it comes to blogging and has zero clue what a scheduled posting means or what the term “go live” means, or he needs to buy a watch! Most likely both. 🙄
“Okay, so why’d you blow your stack at McCain?”
Mainly because I figured that he was just being a prick about me not liking Palin. Especially after reading this posting here. Especially, after I had written this posting here. I still feel the same way, Palin endorsed a guy who’s got some questionable stuff in his closet, not to mention friends.
For those of you who think I am turning into Charles Foster Johnson Jr.
I have one thing to say —- With due respect to my Black and Latino friends in Southwest Detroit:
NIGGA PLEASE! 🙄
Speaking of him, can we please stop with this sort of stupidity with him already? Yes, I know what he did to Pamela Galler; I thought it was awful, I know he parted ways with the “right.” Fine, he did, c’est la vie, stuff happens, serves those right for assuming something that wasn’t. Sending stuff that makes us all look rather dumb. (Like I really need any help with that, as you can see above….)
So, to Robert Stacy McCain. I apologize for flying off the handle. I do that sometimes. I have an excuse — a very weak one, but it’s an excuse. My left shoulder/Arm/Neck area has been KILLING ME, for the last few days. I’ve been a bit grumpy as a result of it. Quite Bluntly; This shit hurts like hell. I am not really sure what I did, I believe I slept funny or something. This has happened before and yes, it was very painful. Took a few days for me to get over it.
So, to ALL of his friends — NO I am not going to turn into another asshole stalker with a hard on for RSM. I just felt it a bit fishy, I still do. I just do not really know Stacy all that well and I assumed something. It happens.
That is all.
Cutting bait
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
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:
- Conservative Blog Advertising Hive
- Evangelical Bloggers
- Blogging Internationally
- Government Relations Blog Network
- Gun Blogs
- Southern Blogads
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!
HEH! – I got mentioned on AOL news
Now this is interesting…. AOL news mentioned lil’ ol’ me on an article on the O’Keefe-Gate Scandal.
I know it was not nice coverage, but hey; I will take any kind of publicity I can get. 😛 😀
Does this mean I have to start acting like a respectable blogger??!??!??! 😯 Horrors!
Updated – I feel the need to clear some things up
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!
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
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.
Example of what will get you added to the ‘idiot filter’ around here
Some moronic jackass comes here and leaves an insulting comment and when I didn’t publish it. He comes back and says this:
Author : mgordon1 (IP: 207.192.202.154 , cm-207.192.202.154.stjoseph.mo.npgco.com)
E-mail : noth@ppnin.com
URL :
Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=207.192.202.154
Comment:
That’s what I thought loser.
He was commenting on this posting here. He thinks that my living situation would be cute to mock. Just shows you what kind of assholes liberals really are. Also, do you honestly think that I really give two shits that anyone knows my personal situation? I really don’t. Two words for you asshole; FUCK YOU.
It just so happens that this blog is actually making me some serious coinage now and if this continues, I will actually have to file for an L.L.C. license and will have to start paying taxes on my earnings.
Truth is, I am in the situation, because of the fucking idiotic economic decisions of the Democrats here in Michigan. As for your question about Healthcare. I am pretty much a healthy person and even if they did pass healthcare; I would not take it. I’d pay the damn fine and go without, I am not stealing care from other people, just so I can say, I got health insurance.
So, there troll, put that in your pipe and smoke it….pole smoker.
Message to commenter GWSSDelta
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.
Site Numbers
These Numbers come via GoStats.com:
From the beginning of the month:
Hits: 24253
Hosts: 14730
Visitors: 16600
Sessions: 18730
New Visitors: 15940
Last week:
Hits: 15649
Hosts: 10898
Visitors: 11600
Sessions: 12484
New Visitors: 10926
Just a quick FYI
Yesterday was an insane day for traffic around here.
Here are the Stats:
Pageviews: 3,707
Top Referrers:
Top Postings:
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:
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
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.
Update: This is what makes what I do here, worth every minute.
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: PatrickHi 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!!!!
A perfect example of the type of comment that I will NOT approve
I woke up this morning and saw this in the moderation basket:
Author : LindaB (IP: 24.26.239.207 , cpe-24-26-239-207.satx.res.rr.com)
E-mail : Lliinnddaa_55@msn.com
URL :
Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=24.26.239.207
Comment:
obama….you are an ILLEGAL parasite and WILL GO TO TRIAL for FRAUD and EMBEZZELMENT..I PROMISE YOU THAT! You are illegally in AMERICA’S White House, AND ILLEGALLY in this country.So take your Anti-Americanism and your muslim ass BACK TO KENYA!(after you do your JAIL TIME!!!)Your wife is aiding and abetting a CRIMINAL,and YOU have hired a bunch of CROOKS to your administration…DON’T MESS WITH AMERICA you dirty lieing muslim.
Um, folks, I am no fan of President Obama. But this sort of crap right here; will never, ever be approved here. So, do not even bother writing garbage like that on my blog. Sure, I would like to see his original, just as much as anyone else. But that brither crap has taken a life of its own and one that I really do not want to be involved in. So, please. If you are one of these sort of knuckle-heads. Leave your comments elsewhere. As you can imagine; I did add this lady to the idiot filter as well.
Updated: Reply to the racist on YouTube
Earlier today, I received the following comment on YouTube:
 | |
| ScotSNP has made a comment on My response to Bernie Sanders: Dude, you are seriously ill. Get some help mate, and shave that fucking jihad beard. | |
Here is my response that I left on YouTube:
Merry Christmas to all.
Update: Just an FYI… I went and checked out the guys account who left the racist comment; he is in the U.K….. Go Figure.
The Huffington Post links to Moi?
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
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
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
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