Islamic Hackers hack my blog.

Sort of a interesting surprise to wake up to…. But it seems that some Saudi Islamic hackers got to my theme or guessed my password and hacked the previous theme. They left a message.

Maybe my blog is making some sort of an impact. 😯

Either way, I dumped the former theme and came back to this one. Either way, I just don’t get why they picked this blog. It is not like this blog has a ton of traffic. I really have not been blogging that much, seeing that the Republican Party picked an idiot to run for President and too; I am just bored of the whole thing anymore. Adsense yanked my money making abilities and since Bush left and Obama is now hobbled, there is really nothing to fight against.

Anyhow, it’s raining around these parts. Maybe I will write some today.

 

Google AdSense Suspends My Account

It was bound to happen, I guess.  It seems that I have done something to upset the “Google Gods” and I now find my Google Adsense account suspended.  I say this, because this came bounding through my Inbox today:

Hello,

After reviewing our records, we’ve determined that your AdSense account
poses a risk of generating invalid activity. Because we have a
responsibility to protect our AdWords advertisers from inflated costs due
to invalid activity, we’ve found it necessary to disable your AdSense
account. Your outstanding balance and Google’s share of the revenue will
both be fully refunded back to the affected advertisers.

Please understand that we need to take such steps to maintain the
effectiveness of Google’s advertising system, particularly the
advertiser-publisher relationship. We understand the inconvenience that
this may cause you, and we thank you in advance for your understanding and
cooperation.

If you have any questions or concerns about the actions we’ve taken, how
you can appeal this decision, or invalid activity in general, you can find
more information by visiting
http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=57153.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

I have no clue what they mean by “invalid activity.”  I suppose it might be related to my political position, and my boldness to speak my mind on race and the double standard of such things.  However, it does appear that Google just took the only sort of income that I have, that actually pay, which is related to this blog.  The Amazon stuff has not really paid at all; the guns stuff and the gold, and the other ads are all of the “I get paid, if you buy” kind; so, it looks like good ol’ Google has me by the short hairs.

I will not sit here and yowl on about “Freedom of Speech” or anything stupid like that; Google is a private entity and they are not obligated to offer me service at all.  I very well could have written something that offended someone’s liberalism and he or she decided to suspend my account.  I filled out an appeal request, but I tend to believe that will be ignored or at the least looked at and rejected.

I am not a whiner; so, I will not sit here and gripe my situation — but I will tell you about how now my parents will have to foot the bill for my medication for ADHD, which runs $50.00 a month.  This is because I have no healthcare insurance and that is because I have been jobless, outside of what this blog makes —- for the last 7 years.  I blame myself partially for that; and I blame both political parties for stupid decisions that caused this hideous economy, both here in Michigan and nationally.

This might be also a good time to inform you, that if you are a Conservative blogger, be watchful and possibly consider other advertising avenues, as Google seems to be tightening the rules on what they tolerate; they just do not tell you that, they dump you for idiot ambiguous reasons, like this one.  Again, I will not call this a “freedom of speech issue,” I call this simply a private company choosing to be selective about whom they do business with, and it is obvious to me, they are not interested in doing business with me any longer.

I think it goes without saying, that if there was ever a time for you to buy a book from my bookstore, or get a gun or some accessories or some gold or silver; or any of the other products in the sidebars —- or just hit my tip jar, this would be a good time to do it. Hopefully, I still have to goodwill amongst some of my readers. I mean, I know I can be a bit of a stickler and can take some unpopular positions — but man, did they have to cut me off at the knees?

Update (September 25, 2012): I am now on Adbrite. In case you are wondering about the ads. 😀

See you all Monday!

Because tomorrow is Easter Sunday, I plan to spend the day reading the Word of God and reflecting on the Death and Resurrection of my Lord Saviour Jesus Christ.  Especially on how the Lord shed his blood, for me on that cross. So, till Monday, be well!

-Pat

 

 

Please Note: On ads here on the blog

Just a little note of FYI: Earlier today someone left a comment objecting to some ads that displayed when he viewed my blog. He was responding to either this posting or this one, or this one; I forget which.

Anyway, the ad at the top of my blog and in the left sidebar at the top; is controlled by Google’s AdSense.  They usually selected by keywords and by cookies that it takes from your computer. I can block ads by URL, which I will, if you see an offensive ad and you think I should know about it; click the ad and get me the URL of site and I will add it to my block filter.

I’m all for capitalism and such; but I am also for keeping this blog a place where everyone can come without having to worrying about being offended by an Internet Ad.

Also too, on the subject of comments; that person that I mentioned? I ended up banning him. I will explain this —I love comments, I love discussion; but I have zero tolerance for people who come to a blog for the sole purpose of being an idiot troll. You come here and insult me and act like an ass? I’m not only going to ban your butt from commenting, I’m going to ban you from even viewing my blog. Why? Because I can. Viewing and participating on this blog is a privilege, and not a right. You louse up around here; and you’ll shown the door — period, end of story. IP block is a beautiful thing and I will use it, if need be.

A rather funny discovery

I was looking at my categories on the blog here, when I was doing my last posting. I had Technology spelled “Techology”

*facepalm* 😳

…and I couldn’t change it for some reason. (Bug in software?!?!)

Anyhow, it’s changed. I had to delete old category and add new one. (Which is a PITA, because I had to orphan some posts. Grrrr. :mad:)

 

Me and Alexandria Blog

I cannot sleep; so I thought I would mention this. I have severed all ties that I did have with Alexandria, which is a blog that I cross-posted to at times.

Without getting into the ugly of it all. I complained to the owner about an undesirable person there and he pointedly told me, if I didn’t like it, I could just not come back. So, I shall not.

What bothers me is, the owner had the stones to actually call me a racist and a anti-Semite; on top of that, he blocked my IP address from even viewing the blog. Something he denies. Well, here is the proof:
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So, Mr. Stuart; Never call someone a liar, when they can prove that you did something.

Downtime Today

(cross-posted from my business Blog)

This morning at 8:00 A.M. there was some planned downtime. Apparently one of the hard drives that power the server that my account and everyone else that is on this server; decided that it was ready for retirement. In other words, it was going bad. So, My Host, which is, HostMist; decided to move me to a different server. So, as a result, I was down for about 30 minutes, while the technical folks moved me off of that machine and onto another one.

The sad reality is that there is no such thing as a perfect server. Selling points and B.S. aside, as long as there is physical hardware involved with hosting websites, blogs, forums and the like; something, somewhere is going fail sometime.

I would like to commend HostMist and his upstream provider for getting things back up as quick as they did. Hopefully, this will be the last of the downtime.

That is it for this week! I shall return on Monday!

I thought I would let everyone know that I am going to be taking the weekend off. I will not lie to you all; I am feeling a bit glum right now. As I mentioned before, I thought I was getting a job. Well, that really did not pan out. My cousin from my Father’s side of the family got a job working for a uniform company. A few days back my cousin came over and really made it clear that if someone called from that company, that someone here at the house should answer the phone. Well, I took that as if I were going to get a phone call to come in for an interview or something. Anyhow, yesterday, I got word that the company really was not hiring anyone. It is not that I do not appreciate my cousin looking out for me, it is just that I have been out of work for so long, that I actually was a bit excited at the prospect of going back to work; only to have the rug yanked out from under me. It does tend to get a bit depressing. I am not blaming my cousin, he meant well. I blame the stupid economy.

Another thing that has me feeling a bit blue is the fact that my so-called “Small Business” is not getting any kind of business at all. It is because of the fact that I just cannot afford the cost of a license for a piece of software that handles the web site, billing, and automation of running a shared hosting business. The license is fifteen dollars a month directly from the software manufacture, or I can get it for twelve dollars and some change a month from a third party who buys the licenses in bulk. Either way, that comes to around one hundred and eighty dollars a year — Which, now, I just do not have to invest in a small business. Not to mention the costs of getting my LLC License and Tax License all set up. I have all those costs itemized over on my Amazon Wish List, in case anyone is interested in helping me out.

I will also make something abundantly clear; I do not blame anyone, but my own self for getting into this situation. I am the idiot, who had the accident back in 2004, which screwed me from ever being hired by another trucking company. I am the idiot who quit the job back in 2005, because it was making me physically sick and did not bother to find another job quickly. I did it, not anyone else. I am the idiot who sat around here and blogged my rear end off from 2006 until now and does not have a damned thing to show for it. It was I, nobody else. I am the one who has written things in the past that were taken out of context and construed as anti-Semitic and/or racist. I did it — no one else. A real man takes responsibility for his mistakes, cowards try to shift blame on others; and I am not a damned coward.

So, there you have it. That is what is happening in my life and it is enough to make a man just want to quit. However, I am not going to quit —- I am, however, going to take a break for the weekend.

Thanks for reading my sob story.

Your somewhat humble host,

Patrick

So much for that

I thought I had mentioned this here, but I guess not.

I thought I might be getting a job. But, I guess it turns out the place is not hiring at the moment. It was supposed to be a driver position, full time, benefits, union backing — the whole bit.

But, I guess like everyone else; the company is watching its bottom line.

So, it’s back to the drawing board for me.

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Update
: A thank you to the fella that likes to wear big hats…for the donation. I’m touched. I really am. 😥