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Confession
05-17-11 | stolinsky

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.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: butthurt; dramaqueen; givemehitsdammit; ibtz; opus; opustempus; selfdestructiveness; smallestviolin; whineypimp
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To: humblegunner; Allegra; Bean Counter

Sing the song, gunner!

You’re giving Allegra a run for the money.


121 posted on 05/17/2011 3:41:08 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: stolinsky

122 posted on 05/17/2011 3:41:23 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR as a platform to pimp your blog for hits!!!)
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To: humblegunner

LOL!

Dork! /S


123 posted on 05/17/2011 3:42:44 PM PDT by Vendome ("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
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To: TheOldLady; Allegra

We may fire up a live studio version this weekend.


124 posted on 05/17/2011 3:43:10 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: arderkrag

ooh, I like that.


125 posted on 05/17/2011 3:43:59 PM PDT by dforest
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To: humblegunner; Bean Counter; Allegra
Y'all's songs are awesome! You two should team up with Allegra and form a nice trio.

More songs! More songs!

126 posted on 05/17/2011 3:45:19 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR as a platform to pimp your blog for hits!!!)
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To: CharlesWayneCT; stolinsky

‘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.


127 posted on 05/17/2011 3:45:41 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable -- Daniel Webster)
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To: stolinsky

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.


128 posted on 05/17/2011 3:45:46 PM PDT by fightinJAG (I am sick of people adding their comments to titles in the title box. Thank you.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim; humblegunner; Eaker; Squantos

OMG!!!!

ROTFLMAO!!!


129 posted on 05/17/2011 3:46:48 PM PDT by Vendome ("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
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To: beandog

Wow, I am liking how this thread is going. Finally! Dude!


130 posted on 05/17/2011 3:47:15 PM PDT by fightinJAG (I am sick of people adding their comments to titles in the title box. Thank you.)
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To: fightinJAG

131 posted on 05/17/2011 3:47:53 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner
"With apologies to Nazareth"

Emmylou Harris's version is much better.

I'd pimp the video here, but I might get in trouble ;-)

132 posted on 05/17/2011 3:48:01 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Yep!

Winnuh!


133 posted on 05/17/2011 3:48:47 PM PDT by Vendome ("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
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To: humblegunner

Yet another room to make ready? Still, that would be da bomb!


134 posted on 05/17/2011 3:48:50 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: fightinJAG
My views on the so-called blog overlords have been stated elsewhere.

And Jim Rob's views on blogpimping are stated in posts #22 and #25 of this thread. :-)

135 posted on 05/17/2011 3:49:29 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR as a platform to pimp your blog for hits!!!)
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To: TheOldLady; Allegra
Yet another room to make ready?

Nah. Sealed, isolated and mothballed since Leroy's death.

Maybe dust off the equipment and it's all good.

136 posted on 05/17/2011 3:57:18 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: stolinsky
Well, okay, I am going to repeat myself here:

#19

#35

#38

#39

#47

137 posted on 05/17/2011 3:57:55 PM PDT by fightinJAG (I am sick of people adding their comments to titles in the title box. Thank you.)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

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.


138 posted on 05/17/2011 4:00:25 PM PDT by fightinJAG (I am sick of people adding their comments to titles in the title box. Thank you.)
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To: humblegunner; Allegra

[nodding]

Cool!

Lookin’ forward to the results with bated breath.


139 posted on 05/17/2011 4:00:35 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

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.


140 posted on 05/17/2011 4:02:50 PM PDT by fightinJAG (I am sick of people adding their comments to titles in the title box. Thank you.)
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