Category: announcements

New name and a new look

I’ll just admit it, the name “American Patriot” was wearing rather thin. Because of my burnout after the 2012 election, I let this blog go into a “back burner, write if I really feel like it” state. Well, it is time that I got back to writing, we do have an election cycle coming and I do wish to weigh in on stuff.

So, I will be doing that here, as best I can.  I will also be deleting my twitter account and creating a new one for the new name and look.

Off we go….

Done with ads

Well, for the most part anyway.

In case you haven’t noticed; except for the Amazon stuff that I have in the sidebars and my luckygunner.com ad that I have at the top and a few others that I want to keep because the places have done me right in the past. I have removed the bulk of ads on my site.

The reason being is because there was just a lot of excess clutter on my site and I tend to think that it the excess ads just turns people off and truthfully guys, I really wasn’t making a freaking thing with those ads on my site at all. The only ones that really pay any money is the infolinks ads, they seem to be paying, not real much but just the same, they’re actually paying some money, the other banner ads they weren’t paying jack so I pulled all of them off and cancelled everything.

I still have a accounts with the various advertiser’s,I just decided to take them off. There a lot of clicks; many people were clicking on them, but nobody was buying anything. that’s because they were pay per action ads and not pay per click, so, I decided to pull everything off except for the lucky gunner ad, because I like people to be able to pick up ammo, should they really want to and I do believe strongly in the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. So, I’ll continue to sell ammo on my site.

But, as far as all those other ads, they’re gone. I’ll  just go with some simple ads in the sidebars for like the bookstore and Amazon and the one lucky gunner ad. But, everything else is gone.

I decided to too many ads was too much clutter and the idea is to have good content so people come read your stuff. Well, that’s not been happening lately cuz I haven’t posted as much and I think the ads just further drove people away. So, for the most part all the ads around here and excess are gone. I want to hold it down to a few that I want to keep and that’s it….

I apologize to anybody that I may have driven off by the excess ads. But I was hoping I could still make money on this site after Adsense ended up blocking my account due to “invalid activity”, which they never fully explained and which I believe was politically motivated.

Anyway, that’s the story guys I just wanted to let you all know that the excess as around here is history. I am keeping infolinks on because they actually make money now and again. But the other stuff was not. So there you go. There is the story and I hope y’all can tell you to come around. I know there is a few of you to come here and read. There used to be alot more, but when I had my little falling out with a certain little turncoat neocon who screwed me over. That all ended.

But, there’s a few of you that still come around here and read my stuff. I see you when you come in on the stats.

Be Well,

-Pat

Removed Video from blog

Just a little housekeeping. There was a video on this blog for a long time. The blog posting was called “Video: The real Martin Luther King Jr.”

Well, I removed it.

It is not that I do not believe the content that was in the video.  It is how it was presented and who produced the video.

I am sure that there are facts about Martin Luther King Jr. that are being suppressed by the King Center.  It is widely known that King was not a perfect man. However, the terms used into that video were very much  bigoted and I simply did not want to be perceived as someone who supports such things.

So, it’s gone.

Some housekeeping

Just a quick note on a few things:

  1. I am again changing the look around here. The dark, “out in the woods” look was getting old. I switched it to something that fits the theme of the blog a bit more.
  2. In my posting about B.B. King’s death, I accidentally linked to a blogger who I have had beefs with in the past.  This was a major oversight by me. Oops. It will not happen again.

That is all. Still working on getting my sidebars all straightened out. Please, bear with me.

Who called me from Cyprus?

I hate to ask questions like this, but here goes!

Who called me from the country of Cyprus?

I see that you also came to my blog and looked around; today, I got a phone call on my cell phone from someone from the country of Cyprus.

I am just wondering; who are you and what exactly did you want?

If you happen to see this and want to leave a comment in the comment section I will approve it.

I’m just wondering, because, I don’t know anybody from Cyprus and I don’t know anybody in Cyprus who would know me well enough to call me.

Anyhow, just wondering I should be posting more today; but, I’m really not much in the mood for it and there’s really nothing that I wish to talk about today.

The only thing the media is talking about is that Hillary email scandal and the Republicans sending a letter to Iran. Everything else is just stupid stuff and I am not interested in blogging about that.

A new look (Again!)

You all might have notice that the site looks a little different. Well, there is a reason for that. Yesterday, I made a blog posting, that garnered some comments.  Well, I started noticing that comments starting looking a little strange, as they went down the page. Needless to say, this was not a good thing.

So, I decided to give this twenty fifteen a whirl and see how well it works. I think the text on it is a bunch better than the former theme that I was using. Not to mention the fact that the customizing features are great too. I had to lighten the background and header photos; so that everyone could see the name of the blog and the stuff in the sidebars. This should make the reading experience a bit better for everyone.

Anyhow, enjoy and hit the tip jar; if you can. 😀

 

New look of sorts

I decided that things were a bit too cluttered around here. So, I basically removed all of the ads in the sidebars, save my Amazon book store and other Amazon stuff. One Ad, at the top, is enough and the ones at the bottom on the posts page, is enough.

Not like I was making any money on all of those ads anyhow. They are all pay per action ads; which means, I don’t get paid, unless someone buys something. It sucks, but since Adsense killed my account a few years back, it’s all I have been able to get.

So, I’ve removed the extra column and removed the ads in the sidebars.

Hope you like the new look.

Alright, enough slacking! Time to crank this blog back up

As you all most likely know, I have been slacking quite a bit around here these days. Since the 2012 election, I just felt like I was spinning my wheels and talking to myself. Since that time, this blogs output has been, well, slow. I just did not have the “fire in my belly” to really write about politics anymore.

Well, that is about to change. I am going to try, at least; to get back to doing this little job. As it does, sometimes, pay a little money. Don’t expect bomb throwing or any other sort of stupidity. I am not going to be your typical “right-wing” writer. I have an independent streak in me; and I tend not to tow a party line or talking point at all. I am also a bit of a contrarian and I really do not get into the “Hive-Mind” mentally of the left and the neocon right. So, if you are expecting Ace of Spades meets Hotair.com, you are going to be very disappointed.

Anyhow, I am going to try to post, at least something, once a day or more. Depending on my mood and health, of course. But, the slacking is over. I have gotten over 2012 long ago, and I was just too lazy to start back. Well, I am getting bored and need something to do, again. So, here we go.

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