Individual Liberty — Individual Responsibility 

Hiatus

I've decided to stop for a while.

I'm going to go see if I can't find a copy of "Teen Beat" magazine. I've never read it, but I guess I've been told I should "go back to reading it."

I've also been told I should join the "Ron Paul" revolution.

This all by former associates who'd rather pile on than try to find out the other side of the story.

To hell with it.

I'll decide by the end of the week whether I want to come back or not.

Phooey!

It hasn't been a good week for inter-blog relations. Some of you may have noticed that I've taken down the Dumb Ox bloggregator that used to sit in the sidebar of my main page. This isn't because I have a problem with D. Ox.

It's because I wasn't about to increase the prominence of the bloggregator on my main page. I also wasn't about to add it to every page on the site, which is apparently a new requirement. Finally, I don't plan on limiting my posting to once per day, which was the final new requirement.

I don't usually post more than once or twice per day anyway, but sometimes I do. When I do, I don't want to be forced to put my extra postings on another blog to satisfy the new bloggregator requirements.

If you happen to be visiting a blog that participates in the bloggregator be sure and use it. There's a great group of contributors that are associated with it, and often you'll find interesting reading by clicking on the headlines. I'll miss it on my site, but not enough that I'm going to make the changes required to stay on it as an associate.

Texas Fred is somewhat ticked with me too. This because I sent him one email message about his non-scientific polling place. It's my message that he quotes in his post.

Basically, I noted that on a question that asks whether I'll be boycotting either Wal-Mart or Target this year, there was no option to say that I wouldn't be boycotting either store. Here's what the question looks like…

Here's the full text of the e-mail message I sent him (you can also read it on his blog). Please note that this is the first and only e-mail message I have ever sent to him regarding the content on his polling place.

There's no option to say I will be boycotting neither store, regardless of whether one rocks my world or not.

The question itself is biased.

Here's the full text of his response.

Then don't vote, if you don't like the questions I use, send some in... Damn Perri, I can't think for ALL of you... And yeah, I am pissed off, I am damned tired of people telling me how the stuff I use is wrong but they never bother to submit a thing...

And BTW, once a poll is set, I can't change a thing...

Biased?? You try writing the questions and answers a while, I'll use em and send YOU all the BITCH email I get telling me what's wrong with it... I am about ready to dump the whole thing over crap like this, but I'll tall you what, I'll take you OFF the email list, will that make you happy or am I being BIASED??

I've asked Fred to take me off of his blog rolls and to remove me from the Reject the U.N. contributor list. I don't need this sort of thing.

I don't think any of us do.

Update: Well, apparently I've managed to tick Fred off so much that he deletes my replies to his comments and he's already deleted my trackback to his post... Now that's a mature blogger for you.

Here's what he has to say about me and my blog (emphasis added).

Thanks Ranando, most folks DO enjoy it, but once in a while you get some sanctimonious prick that can’t be happy with 2 dozen answers, and I am goddamned tired of it, if they don’t like the questions and answer options, let THEM do a Poll Blog and see how many EXACT answers and questions THEY can come up with, in other words, SCREW EM if they don’t like it, I don’t make so much as a penny from this blog, or any other blogs for that matter, and it really doesn’t hurt my feelings at all if a certain few folks go elsewhere with their superior attitude…

And I am pretty damned sure those folks KNOW who I am referring to…

I’m a lot of things but I am NOT perfect, anyone that doesn’t like the way I write my blogs can do us ALL a favor, LEAVE, and we’ll ALL be a lot happier, at least I’ll be happier…

And one more thing, if some folks don’t like what I have to say, they start paying my bills and I’ll consider writing stuff their way…

Yeah, I am steamed over this, I was damned serious when I said, “I am tired of working my ass off” only to be criticized by some asshat that doesn’t even blog anymore, he just sets up some Open Trackback bullshit and calls it a blog…

My response to this was deleted, as was my trackback to his post from this one. Now that's a real willingness to debate.