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.
Sing the song, gunner!
You’re giving Allegra a run for the money.
LOL!
Dork! /S
We may fire up a live studio version this weekend.
ooh, I like that.
More songs! More songs!
‘I think I read this apology already, but it was from a different Freeper.’
I read it too, but I think that that one was genuine, not sarcastic like this guy’s.
Excellent.
Sad, but excellent.
My views on the so-called blog overlords have been stated elsewhere.
No need to repeat the sentiment of your excellent post.
Thank you.
OMG!!!!
ROTFLMAO!!!
Wow, I am liking how this thread is going. Finally! Dude!
Emmylou Harris's version is much better.
I'd pimp the video here, but I might get in trouble ;-)
Yep!
Winnuh!
Yet another room to make ready? Still, that would be da bomb!
And Jim Rob's views on blogpimping are stated in posts #22 and #25 of this thread. :-)
Nah. Sealed, isolated and mothballed since Leroy's death.
Maybe dust off the equipment and it's all good.
Please. Who in the world is forced to click on a link or read an article?
I don’t want to click on a thread and have this huge article load before I’ve even decided FOR MYSELF if I want to read it or not.
Who cares WHO posts the article? If it’s worth reading and of interest to freepers, it will get read. If not, it won’t.
Apart from truly abusive posters (spam), we don’t need “rules” or “blog overlords” to protect us from links we don’t want to click on.
[nodding]
Cool!
Lookin’ forward to the results with bated breath.
Stop me before I click on a blog again! FreeRepublic might not survive is any freepers “peel off” to read BLOGS (whatever those are these days)!
If Mark Steyn came here and, using his own name, posted a link and an excerpt to a post on his blog, do youse guys mean to tell me you would say he has absolutely nothing to say, he just wants to drive hits?
This is all crazy and lame.
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