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It has been a whirlwind couple of weeks, as I reached out to other credentialed bloggers and began forming my strategy for this convention.

I am working closely with the Grizzly Groundswell to coordinate blogging, video feeds and talk radio coverage for this convention. I am looking forward to meeting other credentialed bloggers and working together to bring the Convention to you!

If you look at the tabs above the header image of MidnightBlue you will see a tab for “Mogulus.” This is an exciting new feature to the blog that I am developing to showcase my videos from the Convention.

What is Mogulus? The creators of Mogulus have this to say about their product: Read the rest of this entry »

Apparently Sitemeter put some new code into their system last night without testing it and now every blog that uses this meter is affected. It affects only those who use IE7 or 6. I have taken both of my stat counters off the sidebar but it still appears to affect the blog so a quick fix is found here at Hot Air by a commenter:

To fix click on the menu Tools -> Internet Options. Click on the tab Security. Click on the icon Restricted Sites. Click on the button Sites. Type the text ‘*.sitemeter.com’ (without quotes). Click the Add button.

That will fix the problem on the client side.

I did this in IE6 and it worked.

More here.

My apologies to all the readers of Flopping Aces for the inconvenience over the last hour or so. The blog was hacked and readers were sent to a webpage for advancedxpdefender.com which then tried to load a trojan. Everything should be up and running now.

The LA Times today ran an article today by Geo Washington U’s Eric Sides and John Lawrence - “Who listens to blogging heads?” - that basically poo poos any influence the Internet’s plethora of political blogs have over fellow citizens.

In fall 2006, political scientists, including us, representing about 30 universities conducted a survey of 16,000 Americans, the Cooperative Congressional Election Study. The survey asked respondents whether they read blogs and, if so, which ones. We analyzed the answers, and the result is the first detailed portrait of political blog readers.

About 34% of the respondents said they read blogs, but only 14% named at least one blog that focuses on politics. Who are these political blog readers?

Compared with those who don’t read political blogs, they are more likely to have a college degree and, obviously, are more interested in politics. They are more likely to identify themselves as Democrats or Republicans, rather than as independents, and are more likely to call themselves liberals or conservatives rather than moderates. Political blog readers are more likely to vote, give money to candidates or simply talk about politics. They live and breathe politics.

Of course, the major flaw is the age of their “survey”… Two to three years in the cyber and technology world is a long time…. we must remember that it was only a decade ago that home computers were becoming the norm in the American household.

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Very cool map put together of the 297 most influential political websites and whadda ya know…Flopping Aces made it into the list. (h/t Hot Air)

Apparently the size of the circle is the amount of inbound and outbound links. The area your circle is in relates to where your links come from. More conservative links and you go more right and vice versa.

Absolutely fabulous turnout for the West Chester Flag Day Rally! At least 150-200 patriots celebrated Flag Day with the Sheepdogs!

We were lauded by State Representative Curt Schroder, who presented to the Chester County Victory Movement a U.S. Flag and a State Flag. His speech after the presentation should be required listening across America.

Two notable bloggers attended as well - Thus Spake Ortner from The Sniper and Jonn Lilyea from This Ain’t Hell. Both have written concise and illuminating blog posts on their experience in West Chester, Pa.

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I want to welcome MataHarley, owner of the Sea2Sea blog, as the new author at Flopping Aces. A western portrait is being done up as we speak to include her on our wall of fame on the sidebar. Her bio is up on the author page so check it out. Here is a sneak peek:

Vietnam era Navy wife who continued the military/gypsy lifestyle long after the former hubby’s deployment ended. By 1980, and after extensive travel of all the beautiful US, she planted not-too-deep roots in LALA land, working as a sound editor in the film sound business for 17 years. In the late 80s, she bought a Harley – a move that started her on the path to political awareness. There’s nothing like being “profiled” for your ride to kick up a body’s involvement, eh?

Go check out the rest here.

Welcome aboard Mata!

SWCC’s and SEAL’s meet Skye in Philadelphia.

Commodore Evin Thompson, along with 25 elite Navy SEALs and Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen (SWCC) were present for a special visit to Philadelphia on Memorial Day. The event is called “Schuylkill Banks Navy Appreciation Days,” and it remembers all those who have paid the ultimate price for our freedom.

Spending time with these soldiers, it became quite apparent that these men are not only highly trained professionals, they are also world class gentlemen.

Photos and videos of the event can be found on my Flickr account.

When I was a younger man I found myself in many a fight. Usually because of my smart mouth and unwillingness to bow down to anyone. Well, I’ve learned to choose my words better 98% of the time and if you’ll forgive me, still can’t seem to bow down. Stay with me.

I’ll never forget a fight behind the school bus line one summer day with a fellah bigger than me who decided to have a little fun with this smart mouth Buffoon. He kept taunting me to watch his left hand, “watch my left, watch my left”, he said. I was dumbfounded. What in the world is he talking about, I thought? Then BLAM! He knocked piss, fire and vinegar out of me with his right. Now I know why he wanted me to watch his left hand, because as soon as I became fixated on it, his right was going to take me out, and take me out it did. Still with me?

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The New York Times has a story today about Jane Novak’s crusade to save the life of a Yemeni journalist who dared to insult the leaders of his country. He once wrote Jane: (h/t Conservative Belle)

“Leaders in our region transform into gods,” he wrote. “They even come to believe in their fake holiness, which we aim to shatter, as they know they are humans just like us. Democracy and freedom are not granted by a leader of a regime. It is a worldwide human achievement of all the free people on earth.”

He now sits in a Yemeni prison accused of sedition and may be sentenced to death as soon as tomorrow. Here is Jane at her blog Armies of Liberation: Read the rest of this entry »

I know we have issues with our comments dissapearing after entry. The site’s Spam Filter is…. well, overzealous in some aspects and still lets some spam through. However, even logged on as an admin, some of our comments are caught in the filter. So, we browse the comments flagged as spam and “de-spam” legitimate comments, even those by our propaghanda spewing trolls. The trick is to de-spam the comments before the filter deletes them.
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