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GayPatriot hits 1,000,000; GayPatriots Absent

December 22, 2006 by GayPatriotWest

Well, as we’ve hit — and now exceeded — 1,000,000, your humble bloggers are nowhere to be found. While Bruce has been busy with work, I’ve been catching up after recovering from a terrible stomach ache. While my gastric troubles only put me out of commission for a few hours, they did so at a time when I had a number of pressing obligations.

The one thing I did learn from this experience is make sure that, especially when you’re terribly hungry, that you look inside the bun before you eat a cheeseburger at a restaurant where you’re dining for the first time. When I did check, after eating half the burger, I noticed the bun was coated with something resembling thousand island dressing — a sauce which does not sit well in my stomach.

I’ve always wondered why restaurants which advertise that their burger includes tomato, pickle and onion, neglect to mention that it includes a special sauce as well.

All that said, I’m delighted at the success this blog has enjoyed, that we have become a leading and recognized voice for a long-neglected segment of the American population, gay conservatives. I appreciate our regular readers and those bloggers who have linked us.

And I’m grateful for those critics who have taken the time to craft thoughtful rebuttals to our posts. While we have attracted our share of Snapdiggers, those left-wingers who frequent our blog, more to attack than to argue, we have attracted a good number of readers who regularly (and honorably) take issue with the points we raise. I salute them for spending time on a blog with whose ideas they tend to disagree and being civil in their rebuttals.

Despite our infrequent posts of late, even though we have crossed the 1,000,000 threshold, we’re going to keep on blogging, putting forward our opinions, engaging our critics and expanding our audience, ever grateful to those who take the time to read our work and consider our ideas.

– B. Daniel Blatt (GayPatriotWest@aol.com)

Filed Under: Blogging, Civil Discourse, Conservative Ideas

Comments

  1. Jimbo says

    December 22, 2006 at 11:22 am - December 22, 2006

    Seems to me you have a case of food poisoning. Did you keep a sample of the sauce that made you sick? You may want to contact the restaurant where you ate.

  2. Peter Hughes says

    December 22, 2006 at 12:06 pm - December 22, 2006

    Dan, sorry about that incident. Now if you were a liberal, you could be blaming the food establishment for not alerting you in the first place about the sauce.

    Then you could hire a liberal defense attorney, play the victim card and score some cash, all the while decrying how “awful” our consumer society is.

    Happy Hanukkah!

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  3. Calarato says

    December 22, 2006 at 2:53 pm - December 22, 2006

    Here’s something to think about (off topic).

    Remember Plamegate? Remember Joe Wilson, “BUSH LIED!!!(tm)”, frogmarching Rove, Fitzmas, the Libby indictment, and all that other rubbish the lefties raved about so inappropriately for 3 years?

    Hat tip Best of the Web: “Former ambassador Joseph Wilson asked a federal judge Wednesday not to force him to testify in the CIA leak case…”

    As Taranto aptly puts it:

    Hmm, for a guy who burst onto the scene three years ago as the most garrulous figure since Ted Turner, and who then wrote a book called “The Politics of Truth,” Wilson is awfully averse to testifying under oath.

  4. Peter Hughes says

    December 22, 2006 at 2:57 pm - December 22, 2006

    Cal, that’s because he’ll be forced to reveal things under oath. Not as if the libs are so interested in telling the truth in a deposition…remember Slick Willie.

    (I of course would like to forget him, but he and his Harridan wife and former intern-turned-MA-degree “person of interest” make it too difficult.)

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  5. Calarato says

    December 22, 2006 at 3:09 pm - December 22, 2006

    Nice to see you, Peter 🙂

    Another one averse to testifying under oath is Kerry. It’s nearly 2007, and he still hasn’t done squat about the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth. Oh, he’ll bash them (words are cheap) and have allies / proxies launch a lawsuit here and there for headline value… but just as the suit is about to enter “discovery” and get into depositions, the Kerry camp will mysteriously withdraw it. No joke. And we know the reason.

  6. North Dallas Thirty says

    December 22, 2006 at 3:20 pm - December 22, 2006

    And, on a related note, it seems everyone’s favorite example of Democrats wielding justice, Mike Nifong, is suddenly realizing he’s been Tawana’d.

    Of course, Nifong and Wilson are typical of Democrats’ view of the legal system; these things shouldn’t even have to go to court, because Democrats accused them and they’re automatically guilty. They’ve already been tried in the court of media, and that’s the only court whose decisions Democrats will accept.

  7. Calarato says

    December 22, 2006 at 3:23 pm - December 22, 2006

    If Nifong “was Tawana’d”… well, he sure went willingly, is all I can say. He bought the horse and then some.

  8. Peter Hughes says

    December 22, 2006 at 4:02 pm - December 22, 2006

    Mary Katherine Ham at Townhall has a great take on Nifong and the whole mindset of Durham, her hometown. She also hat-tips Bruce & Dan for their Grande Conservative Blogress Diva award.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  9. sean says

    December 23, 2006 at 1:37 am - December 23, 2006

    To be completely honest, I don’t know what you are talking about with this “putting forward our opinions” stuff. I don’t see any “ideas” on here all that much. It is mostly: look at what Andrew Sullivan/Log Cabin (Not) Republicans/Peggy Noonan/or someone else says and then either agreeing with it or not agreeing with it. The Wall Street Journal’s piece on conservative political blogs was quite fitting. Ideas? The only place where ideas are laid out in a serious way from a gay conservative viewpoint is over at Independent Gay Forum. Most of the stuff here is pretty thin.

    That’s not to say that it isn’t fun to read.

  10. Peter Hughes says

    December 23, 2006 at 12:37 pm - December 23, 2006

    Then sean, if it is so “thin” on ideas, why the f–k are you here anyway?

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  11. JonathanG says

    December 23, 2006 at 2:35 pm - December 23, 2006

    “Then sean, if it is so “thin” on ideas, why the f–k are you here anyway?”

    I can answer that: theater of the absurd. In few places can you find someone whose blog is full of virtriole (like that quoted above) pining for seasonal “kindness and generosity.” In few places can you read that Democrats are palsy-walsy with terrorists because al Qaeda writes them a letter of warning. If not for the death-defying leaps beyond rationality, I’d still read it for the infuriated, nasty comments, as do many other people.

  12. Peter Hughes says

    December 24, 2006 at 2:23 pm - December 24, 2006

    “Theater of the absurd?” Sounds more like the definition of the House under Nasty Pelosi.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

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