Entries from August 2006 ↓

I have been blogging since January 2006, and it has overall been a great experience. I have met a ton of great people, some sucky people, and have had a great opportunity to release some frustrations and let my opinions be known.

I have to admit that I started blogging just for the money. WritingUp.com offered to host my blog and allow me to display my Adsense ads, which would not only fulfill my new year’s resolution of writing more, but would also help build up some passive income. The writing more aprt has worked great…the whole Adsense thing has not quite paid off, but my Adsense account is certainly growing.

At some point in my blogging travels, I discovered a company called Blogitive that would pay me $5 per post to add a specific sponsored link to my blog entries. No problem, right? Easy money. And yes, it is. I have made a few hundred bucks off of it, and continue to receive offers. The only problem is that there are a limited number of opportunities available, so the amount of money that I make is entirely contingent upon how many opportunities are available in a week.

Last week, I discovered PayPerPost.com from a friend on WritingUp.com, and signed up immediately. I am happy to report that my blog has been approved, and I am now able to post whatever advertisements are available up to three a day. Plus they offer different priced opportunities, so I can pick and choose based upon how much they will pay me.

Between Blogitive and PayPerPost, the average blogger can become a mini media mogul. This truly is a consumer generated advertising revolution, making advertising revenue available to the normal webizen. No, you’re not going to get rich, but these two companies can certainly help you supplement your monthly income. Plus, if you’re money motivated like me, you may tend to write more if you can make money blogging.

If you would like more information on either of these companies, drop me a line and I’ll send you a link. Or, when you sign up, be sure to tell them that lpferris sent you. Thanks!

If you have been paying any attention to the headlines in the news lately, you may have noticed the insane amount of distractors being put out there lately. These distractors are stupid crap news stories put out there solely to distract the American Public and the people of the world from the real news, and more importantly to keep the real shit off our minds.

“Exciting” news stories like these keep our minds off our worries about how the hell we’re going to fill up our gas tank and get to work if gas prices continue to soar, how we’re going to pay the electric bill when energy prices are soaring, and more importantly it keeps us from realizing that our country is STILL being stolen from us by corporations and crooked politicians.

John Mark Karr, possible killer of JonBenet Ramsey, has been in the headlines all week. Honestly, who gives a shit about this guy? Even a legal analyst lady from Fox News (of all places) admitted that the DA’s case against this guy will be weak at best even with his confession. So why waste your time reading news about this guy?

The “terrorist threats” in England have also been hogging up their share of the headlines. I saw today in NSA Today…err, USA Today, rather…that eleven of the arrested men haven’t even been charged yet. The charges that have been filed against some of the “terrorists” are flimsy at best. But man, what a great way to build up the fear…oh, and what a great way to drum up support for the warmongering GOP just before an election that will hopefully kick them out of office. Not to mention that Bush’s approval rating is up after the arrests as well.

So good work, neocon bastards. Your distraction techniques keep the average (and even the above-average) American mind off of the things that really matter. Things like the fucking pathetic fact that New Orleans is still a mess (having a goal of opening 35% of the public schools is NOT progress), and Bush’s admission that Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11 (surprise, surprise), get swept under the news that we get spoon-fed.

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I have a secret…I have been holding out on all of you. Actually, I haven’t. It just never actually struck me that I should mention here that I am the webmaster for a new podcast. It is called 9/11 Synchronicity (www.911synchronicity.com), and is hosted by Richard Andrew Grove. Many of you may be familiar with Richard’s work. If not, take a look st 8thestate.com to get some background.

Richard is now up to Episode 5, which was released on Saturday the 19th of August. In past episodes, Richard has interviewed a range of guests, including Dylan and friends from Louder Than Words (”the Loose Change guys”), and Ty Rauber (producer of “Who Killed John O’Neill?”). Richard also features music that you have probably never heard (but ought to), as well as excellent insight into a number of different topics.

No matter what you vbelieve about 9/11 and our government’s involvement, or lack thereof, 911 Synchronicity is well worth your time, and will open your eyes to a whole new line of thought. Give it a listen and let me know what you think.

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So last night I saw Talladega Nights. It was pretty amusing, albeit the fact that product placement whoring was insane.

Anyway, toward the end of the movie, executives from Halliburton and DynCorp show up at a race as prospective investors. Interestingly, the names of the actors (or non-actors) who played the executives is as yet nonexistant on any cast list including IMDB.

If anyone can remember the names of either of these men I would greatly appreciate your assistance in refreshing my memory. Hope you all had a great weekend.

Just a quick post this fine Sunday afternoon. I was looking over the Long Beach Press Telegram’s website, and found a few more delightful pictures of what our future looks like. This is real, and we’re letting it happen by being complacent. We can change this, but we need to do something now.

So remember yesterday, when I warned you that something needs to be done NOW to combat the rising fascism and robbery of our civil liberties in the United States? Remember how I presented pictures from Yahoo! showing police with semi-automatic weapons and dogs at airports? If you don’t give this post a gander.

Anyway, here are a few more pics for you. The governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, has called in the National Guard to help the TSA intimidate people… I mean, watch for terrorists. That’s great, since the National Guard isn’t spread thin enough be being deployed to Iraq by the Commander Thief… er, Chief Thief… DAMN, I mean Asshole in Chief… I’m never going to get it right, so let’s look at some pictures:

Turns out, it’s not just here in the US. It’s all over the place. Here are some pics from airports in Pakistan. Ironically the majority of the “terrorists” arrested yesterday were Pakistani. Look into the CIA connection with the ISI (that’s the Pakistani CIA) to fully comprehend the irony. On to the pics:

As much as I hate this, could it be a sign that our governments are starting to become scared of their people as it should be? There’s got to be a silver lining, right?