As You Know, We’ve Had Some Problems

About Website Hosting

When we first decided to go away from free WordPress.com, I had no idea just how crazy hosting your own site would be. We went with a very popular shared host, installed WordPress, and off we went.

Over time, though, that site began to bog down. We were getting lots of good traffic, but no matter what I tried (and my knowledge at the time was very low), I couldn’t get the site to move faster.

Then problems really started when our traffic started getting into the thousands of unique hits every day, topping out at about 10,000 on election day.

Then something astonishing happened. Well, it was astonishing to me, but not to anyone with any sense. Our shared hosting company ditched us, and we had to move the site yet again. Would I be admitting to too much stupidity if I told you that happened twice?

Well, that was a long time ago, and I’ve finally learned all the lessons I should have learned before I started hosting my own website. And better yet, I’ve decided to share.

So if you have a site on a shared host, or really any type of host, there are some major things that no one will tell you that you really need to know. For instance, you could be having crazy amounts of spam bots accessing your site thousands of times a day and you won’t even know it unless you know where to look because most stat programs ignore bots.

Anyway, to read all that I’ve learned, click on the link below:

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We have a new site…

We’ve been wandering in the desert for about a year, but I think we finally have a site that we’re going to stick with for awhile. Political News

New Conservative Shirts Site

A number of us conservative bloggers have gotten together and created a conservative shirts site.  You can see the site here: Conservative Shirts.

We’ve only been going for a short while, but we already have a number of designs up.  One of the more topical ones involves the tea parties.  You can see those shirts here: Tea Party Shirt.

A New Site With Some Funny Political Jokes…

Have created a new site that will have, and already does have, some funny political jokes that are being passed around by email.  The site is called Funny Email, and the relevant section would be here: Republican Jokes.

Obviously, most of the jokes I receive in emails are from conservative friends, so if you want to send me some liberal jokes, that would be fine.  I need a Democrat Jokes section, anyway.

Solutions Outside of the Stimulus Package?

I received an email from the American Solutions folks today, the same people who ran the Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less. campaign.  I posted it at Conservative Blog. 

This time their target is the stimulus package.  Go take a look at the email, then visit the site to learn more about the proposal.

12 American Solutions for Jobs and Prosperity

Bloomberg author receiving death threats

How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis: Kevin Hassett

H/T Steve Hayward at The Corner

Democrats play politics with bank rescue vote. Could crash markets.

Not happy “just” to bail out the banking industry, the Democratic leadership has decided to play politics with the legislation and added a variety of populist proposals including the bailout of home owners and rules about executive compensation.

Assuming the Republicans won’t stand in the way of saving the country from a potential economic meltdown, Democrats show their true colors, as usual.  Always out for a vote.

Read the article.

Beretta Biden’s Dukakis Moment

Beretta Biden’s Dukakis moment - wherein he appears as ridiculous as he would were he driving a tank wearing a little tin hat.

This Passes For Humor?

In one of the most contemptuous and boorishly vulgar personal attacks on Governor Sarah Palin yet, comedienne (I use this term loosely) Sandra Bernhard lashed out during the opening night of her one woman show in Washington, D.C.

Bernhard’s defenders insist she was being provocative, combative, humorous and disgusting. I tend to be more honest in my assessment.  She is a bitter, odious, abhorrent, repulsive, hideously unattractive X chromosome.

She warned Sarah Palin not to come into Manhattan lest she get gang-raped by some of Sandra’s big black brothers.  Her seething tirade continued, “Now you got Uncle Women, like Sarah Palin, who jumps on the s–t and points her fingers at other women. Turncoat b—h! Don’t you f–kin’ reference Old Testament, bitch! You stay with your new Goyish crappy shiksa funky bulls–t! Don’t you touch my Old Testament, you b—h! Because we have left it open for interpre-ta-tion! It is no longer taken literally! You whore in your f–kin’ cheap New Vision cheap-ass plastic glasses and your [sneering voice] hair up. A Tina Fey-Megan Mullally-broke-down-bulls–t moment.”

Keep it classy, Sandra, you embarrassing gutter snipe of a hag.

That’s McCarthyism

“This is insulting. This is embarrassing, especially to Gov. Palin, to me and I think it should be to every single New Yorker,” Assemblyman Dov Hikind, D-Brooklyn, told CBS 2 HD. [...]

The groups sponsoring the rally against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaking at the UN were reportedly told, “it could jeopardize their tax exempt status” if they had Palin and not Clinton or Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden on hand. [...]

“It’s an absolute shame that this has happened,” Hikind said. “To threaten organizations … to threaten the Conference of Presidents that if you don’t withdraw the invitation to Gov. Palin we’re going to look into your tax exempt status … that’s McCarthyism.”

Another Jewish group tried to step into the breach by inviting Palin to a different protest a day earlier.

“I’m absolutely appalled at the behavior of the Democrats,” said Bob Kunst of Defenders.net. “I’m a Democrat and for the first time in my life I’m going to vote Republican. I can’t take it anymore.”