Individual Liberty — Individual Responsibility

For those we lost, We will not forget 09/11/2001

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
— The Continental Congress, July 4, 1776

“The task of statesmanship has always been the re-definition of these rights in terms of a changing and growing social order.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt (Commonwealth Club Address, 1932)

“Roosevelt was wrong! The principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence are the principles of individual liberty. Our unalienable rights, given to us by God are given to us as individuals. Our rights do not come from society or the government, and they cannot be redefined by politicians. The nature of these rights carries with it the implication of individual responsibility, without which we surrender them.”
— Perri Nelson, November 6, 2008

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TexasFred’s EMAIL to Blogrolling.com

Published Wed, Nov 29 2006 5:29 PM
Technorati Tags: Blogging, Annoyances

The following is the text of an email message Texas Fred sent to blogrolling.com. I know he's not the only one experiencing problems with their service of late.

I have several blogs on my account and I have 2 fairly well ranked blogs, http://thetexasfredshow.blogspot.com/ is one of them…

It’s called a SHOW because I have an Internet Radio Show, Conservative talk radio, and YOU are going to be my MAIN topic of conversation from 9AM to Noon CST tomorrow, Thursday, Nov 30th if I don’t get some kind of response other than your automated message…
Look, I understand ‘net problems, we ALL deal with them, but YOU have chosen to provide a service, a service that MANY people have come to rely on, and YOU owe it to the users to provide some kind of explanation to us, the users, and especially to folks like ME, the ones that were willing to PAY for your service…
I don’t want to go on a rant AGAINST you and your service on my show tomorrow, but I will…
This has gone on for long enough and this email WILL be posted to BOTH of my blogs, they are listed above…
Sincerely,
TexasFred
http://TheTexasFredShow.blogspot.com/
http://TexasFred.net/

Source: TexasFred’s » Blog Archive » My EMAIL to Blogrolling.com

I wonder if they'll get the message. I sure hope so, their service has been pathetic lately, especially at night. I've taken to caching all of the blog rolls I present on my site, and only retrieve them once every ten minutes or so. It helps my pages to load faster, but the blog rolls aren't quite as fresh.

Of course, when blogrolling.com doesn't update in response to pings, freshness doesn't matter much anymore. I use my blogrolls to see who's got fresh content. When blogrolling.com doesn't update it's pretty hard to tell who's updated their blog.

At least Technorati favorites work, but I don't want to put that many blogs on my favorites.

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