If you pimp your blog 'round here, I'll lay your soul to waste.
We apologize for any butthurt you may have experienced.
It is within your power to prevent further butthurt.
Posted on 05/17/2011 1:30:40 PM PDT by stolinsky
Forgive me, Freepers, for I have sinned. My sins are many:
1. I linked to my own website, which is a sign of the arrogant belief that people might want to read what I write. Of course, if I didn't think that, I wouldn't write in the first place, so it's hard to see much difference.
2. I "stole bandwidth," though it's hard to see how posting a short exerpt with a link was worse than posting a long article--or how repeated insulting comments don't also "steal bandwidth."
3. I wanted people to "pay" me to be "showered with my wisdom," though my website has no advertising and costs me $299 a year to run, plus untold hours of time.
4. I used too many bullet points--or is it too few semicolons, I forget?
5. I claimed to have a graduate degree, though this couldn't be true, since I expressed myself plainly, in short paragraphs, and never used a $5 word when a two-bit word would do as well.
6. I claimed to have scars from a line-of-duty injury in the Army Reserve, though this couldn't be true either, since "people like me" usually avoid service.
7. Unlike my critics, I use my own name instead of a screen name, because I'm willing to stand up and be counted for what I say, and believe.
8. I assumed falsely that I was among friends, so any differences could be resolved amicably. Instead, I got more anger and vitriol than I ever got from liberals in the years I posted on NewsMax and on my own website. Yes, they occasionally called me "Nazi," but even the most fanatical never threatened violence or called me mentally ill--both of which are ways communists used to silence those who disagreed.
9. I assumed falsely that most conservatives are interested in saving our nation from leftists undermining it from within, and extremist Muslims attacking it from without. But instead, some are too busy squabbling among themselves about who doesn't really "fit in" with their small group--a sure recipe for defeat.
For all these sins, forgive me. My pennance will be to forgo blogging for a month. Perhaps that will be enough time for the anger to subside. Or not.
If you pimp your blog 'round here, I'll lay your soul to waste.
We apologize for any butthurt you may have experienced.
It is within your power to prevent further butthurt.
linking to personal blogs does not offend me at all. Blog away and don’t let the cranky heads get you down.
Also, not everyone is amicable on FR as I’d like, either, but there are many who are so just interact with those of us who can disagree without screaming “RINO!” at those who disagree with us. Or worse :)
Oh, what the hell does Jim know?
He merely owns the place.
/s
POST or EXCERPT? The two are not the same, Grasshopper.
Lol.
Tone, JDB. My tone in that part of my post was facetious. As in life so on FR: merit accrues to virtue and accomplishment, not duration. So now back into my cave...
Your sins are exactly as follows....
Since 1/26/2009 you have posted 255 articles and only 64 replies.
All the replies you have made are to articles you have posted.
You have never contributed anything to the forum outside your own posts.
And no, I am not a member of the blog police, humble's taste in uniforms is atrocious.
See #47
Wow.
Cripes, now I’m thinking of asking where I can get my official badge.
that’s pretty pathetic.
Surely not.
But if JUST ONE PIMP is saved, it's worth the effort.
Aw, mannnnnn ... I've always wanted to live in a cave. Color me jealous. :)
What the hell is wrong with wife-beater t-shirts, camo cut-offs and desert boots?
Yeah, but the thongs...
ROFL!
Ha ha ha....
Hey, it’s not my fault you picked a screen name that is “sooooooo serious”...
Anyway gold velour is in your colorwheel. ;)
Those are just for the chick Pimpbusters.
Somebody sent you the wrong outfitting form.
Did you order any? What color?
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