"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."
No death for me?
Well, “confession’s good for the soul but bad for ther reputation,” right?
If the following lil ditty by W.H. Auden is true, then I might just never die:
“As poets have mournfully sung,
Death takes the innocent young.
The rolling in Money,
The screamingly funny
And those that are very well hung.”
OK, y’all quit snickering.
hanging my… head in shame at TMH’s Bacon Bits and Stuck on Stupid.
Yeh, Yeh. Blatant begging combined with an open trackbacks post for The Open Trackback Alliance (check the blogroll in my left sidebar).
Here’s the OTA and other Open Trackback stuff, but do stick around for my bleg, wouldja?
Also note the other fine blogs featuring linkfests at
Linkfest Haven.
OK, here’s the bleg: I am less than 200 unique visitors from my goal of reaching 50K unique visitors by the time my first year with Statcounter rolls around. That’s adding the stats from the Blogger TWC to the stats for this TWC. Now, I know lotsa folks like to count page loads and others like to count hits, but I’ve had well over 30,000 hits just here in the last three weeks, and so counting hits would be less cool, as I look at it. Your mileage may vary–different strokes and all that.
What I’m primarily interested in is unique eyeballs, as best as Statcounter can determine it, excluding my visits and search engines crawling, etc. 50K is still on the low end of unique visitors for a year with blogs that have the high quality links in I have been strangely blessed with, but at least it means those unique eyeballs are also of a higher quality than some really active blogs get.
(Rabbit trail: I am fequently both amazed and humbled by the fact that, although my comments sections aren’t full to overflowing like some blogs, the quality of the people posting is always a notch or two above my own posting. I like that.)
So, here’s the bleg: wouldya ask your readers to push me over the edge top in my search for 50K unique eyeball pairs by the end of this week? That’d nring me in at my lil goal about a half a month ahead of target.
It’s no biggie, cos stats are only a very minor indicator of, well, anything to me. My main goals remain: silence the voices in my head and (something that’s grown on me) appreciate the readers that come back for some reason. 🙂
Blegging at Basil’s, as soon as he gets the picnic basket ready for Wednesday where the ants are already on the march at the picnic, and at Diane’s Stuff as soon as she gets her OTA post up where Lady Diane “splains” an important feature of Windows… (SOOOOO glad you’ve got your blog back and running, Lady Diane!)
Seems this is my day for rants…
America’s Third World Countyâ„¢. Gotta love it.
Example: the local mom n pop “baling wire and chewing gum” telco that serves 2.5 communities with 2 exchanges (yeh, it’s long distance to call between the two exchanges, and “.5” cos one of the communities is so small it doesn’t even have a post office), has offered “DSL” service for a coupla years now. Really, it only offers ADSL, but who’s quibbling?
But catch this: the cable tv company I have basic tv service through (I qualify by about 150′–that much further west and I’d be “outside the service area”) offers broadband access as well. Here’s a brief rundown:
“Thou shalt not suffer a fool gladly, for anst thou dost, he shall surely breed, and thou shalt find thyself up to thine *** in fools.”
Some of y’all read and responded to my post about a dipwad who was too lazy, stupid or just plain inconsiderate in his approach to leaving an email list he’d subscribed to.
That’s all over, now. But it did prick me to look at something I’ve not checked into for some time: Email etiquette “rules”.
As to what I refer to as “tough love–or maybe not so loving” emails, this lil excerpt from an article on the subject caught my eye:
Continue reading ““Ranting and raving and throwing of food…””
No, I did not mean “infusion” cos I sincerely believe coffee is the Lifeblood of Sanity… at least today.
I was moving so slowly my Wonder Woman asked me if I was stuck in a black hole. Yeh. I feel like I have my head so far up my…
OK, time for another cuppa joe. Days like today are THE reminder of why I wrote this
“Confession is good for the soul and bad for the reputation,” is one of my Wonder Woman’s favorite sayings. So? Confessing my mental state at Conservative Cat, where at least Bruce has Ferdy to keep him compos mentis, even during a high fever… and at Median Sib, cos she sounds about as understanding as my Wonder Woman, Mrs. Librarian Lady, as she recounts A Day in the Life of a Reading Teacher.
Link to this post and track back.
Here’s a short roundup of a few posts that are in the “must read” category:
Woody (Woody’s News and Views) pointed out Emperor Misha’s “We Need to Stop Playing at War“. Well, we do, and his post points out salient reasons why. Read it.
Wittingshire has “Boys and Bikinis“, of which Lovely Daughter said, “That post is beyond adorable! I agree with the boy.” I dunno about the “adorable” part. The boy referred to might not appreciate that, but she’s on target about the rest… 🙂
I’m very glad I don’t need The Evangelical Outpost’s advice on “How to Get Rid of a Stoner Son“… but if you do, I think It Could Work!
On a serious note, Blonde Sagacityâ„¢ writes about a major humanitarian problem directly related to illegal aliens in “A Rape Tree Grows Out West“. Read it, and let yourself experience some righteous anger.
Polemiken offers “Manifest?” Money quote, from Wafa Sultan:
Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people, and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them.
Romeocat has a powerful post at CatHouse Chat: Oh, Yes! Strong stuff, R’Cat. Strong.
Finally, turning to the absurd, once again I urge you to CLICK and contemplate the horror of Alien Cow Abductions. (No, not the abductions of alien cows, silly.)
Once again, this is an Open Trackbacks Post. Link to this post and track back.
Also note the other fine blogs featuring linkfests at
Linkfest Haven.
Notice the new animated graphic in my left sidebar? Beth, at Blue Star Chronicles has devised a way for anyone who so wishes to declare their support for the Danes in their quest to assert civilized values in the face of Islamic hissyfits.
Visit Beth’s site and sign up with the Sammenhold Blogroll if you want to show your support.
*Sammenhold is Danish for “solidarity”.
Oh, and Beth is moving Blue Star Chronicles. Please visit both her blogsites during the transition to make sure you catch her very solid blogging. Catch the link to her new site off the Sammenhold graphic or my blogroll. The “old” site is linked in this post, cos that’s where the Sammenhold post is, right now.
Her new site is also noted in last weekend’s Open Post, with a couple of trackbacks.
Today, it’s back to school on an important, much-neglected problem with our border security. And, of course, it’s Monday Open Trackbacks. So link to this post and trackback.
Now, on to Guard the Borders:
There is a dangerous misconception lurking in America’s growing public consciousness about immigration law enforcement. From the man on the street to the halls of Congress, the fatal error persists in the belief that if only current immigration laws were just enforced, the illegal alien invasion of these United States would be over for good.
All would be well if we put the legal mechanisms in place into effect . . . right?
Wrong.
Few Americans even recognize that there’s any problem at all with HOW the federal government goes about deporting illegal aliens and criminal alien residents. Securing the Arizona desert was a piece of cake in comparison—remember that the volunteer Minuteman Project showed the world that they could do it in a month!
So what’s the problem?
Here’s a little exercise in using two disparate, seemingly unrelated, scriptures in the Bible to cast illumination on each other. One is from the New Testament and the other from the Old Testament. I’ll comment on the process elsewhere, but for now, consider this New Testament passage:
13 And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words. 14 And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? 12:15 Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.
16 And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar’s. 17 And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. And they marvelled at him. –Mark 12:13-17
Forwarded to me by LindaSog, this link to A Soldier’s Perspective’s campaign to support the family of SGT Rickey Jones, killed Feb. 22 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee during patrol operations in Hawijah, Iraq:
I am trying to help organize a letter writing campaign to the family of SGT Rickey Jones. As you may have read earlier, their home was vandalized by idiots who wouldn’t understand patriotism if it flew a plane through their bedroom window.
If you own a blog, please post this effort on your respective blogs and ask your readers to post it on their blogs. If you are as disgusted as I am and would like to write a letter to have delivered to this family, please email Lauren (MyWay716@aol.com) for more information. The good people over at Operation Military Pride are helping facilitate the delivery of these letters.
Folks, let’s not let the cretinous pieces of filth who have vandalized the family’s home and called with hateful messages of “Your son deserved to die” color this family’s memory of their son. Look into this for yourself. And if you are as (rightfully) angered by these actions and by the announced plans of Fred Phelps and his cult of hate (gee, you’d think they were Muslims or something) to “protest” this soldier’s funeral as am I, please write the family with your support and encourage others to do so as well.
Euphoric Reality also has an address to send cards. Funeral services are set for this coming Monday.
PSA’d at Basil’s Blog.