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MKEonline Blog of the Week Contest Update
You still have 5 days 16 hours and 52 minutes to vote for Heraldblog in the MKEonline Blog of the Week Contest. If you're voting for NeillOBrien.com, you have 10 days, 16 hours and 52 minutes to vote, due to the fact that his other website, which you can see here, won last week's contest. I don't think that's fair, but hey, what are you going to do? The guy's a web developing machine. He was speaking in brackets when he was two. His first word was "href".
But online blog contests are about so much more than tags and metafiles and wrappers. They are also about heart, and humor, and dedication to the craft.
Hold on a moment. Katie Couric is interviewing the woman who was fired last night on The Apprentice.
Back.
I was checking my sitecounter stats the other day, and noticed somebody reached Heraldblog after Googling "bulemia" + "terri schiavo". I thought that was kind of odd, since there are tons of great bulemia sites out there, then I realized that I spelled "bulimia" wrong in one of my posts. I spelled it "bulemia", which you have to admit looks better than "bulimia". Then it struck me, how ironic that a disease brought on by the need to "look better" would be misspelled because the misspelling "looks better."
Ha! You see, that's one more reason to vote for Heraldblog! Do you think NeillOBrien.com would ever write that last paragraph? Hell no. He'd just run a picture Tori Spelling and move on.
Hacked
It appears that LandoverBaptist and Whitehouse.org have both been hacked by creepy right wing types. Landover is now AmericanDecency.org, and Whitehouse.org is a gateway to ConservativePunk.org.
Is this somebody's idea of a trick? Maybe to FOOL somebody on this first DAY in APRIL? Hmmmmm.
Pop quiz
Name two wartime leaders in recent history who won public support by cutting taxes and introducing expensive social benefits.A well-respected German historian has a radical new theory to explain a nagging question: Why did average Germans so heartily support the Nazis and Third Reich? Hitler, says Goetz Aly, was a "feel good dictator," a leader who not only made Germans feel important, but also made sure they were well cared-for by the state.
How do you say "prescription drug benefits" in German?
To do so, he gave them huge tax breaks and introduced social benefits that even today anchor the society. He also ensured that even in the last days of the war not a single German went hungry. Despite near-constant warfare, never once during his 12 years in power did Hitler raise taxes for working class people. He also -- in great contrast to World War I -- particularly pampered soldiers and their families, offering them more than double the salaries and benefits that American and British families received. As such, most Germans saw Nazism as a "warm-hearted" protector, says Aly, author of the new book "Hitler's People's State: Robbery, Racial War and National Socialism" and currently a guest lecturer at the University of Frankfurt. They were only too happy to overlook the Third Reich's unsavory, murderous side.
UPDATE: Heraldblog's Bavarian correspondent says it's "Leistungen für Verschreibungspflichtige Arzneimittel."
1.4.05 14:41
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Tara / Website (1.4.05 14:47) Hey, there is nothing wrong with posting pictures of Tori Spellling... |
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(1.4.05 14:55) Oh, was that your site? I get you and Neill mixed up sometimes. |
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Neill / Website (1.4.05 16:09) i spoke in TAGS at 2. just wanted to clear that up with all those would-be voters... and why are you calling me a metafile? i dont have any porn on my computer. |
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Keith (4.4.05 15:32) If conservativepunk.com is "creepy", then how would you describe the whitehouse.org? "perverted"? "inhuman"? how about "tasteless fodder whose sole purpose is to make fun of those christian hicks in order to make the webmaster feel better about himself"? |
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mike / Website (12.11.05 17:22) Tori Spelling is gerat looking and pictures of her a great. We all love Tori Spelling |
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