"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."
~~Richard Bach
I am getting ready to change the settings on my blog. I don’t like moderating the comments all the time. I would like to give the regular readers the right to comment at will without having to wait for a mod to approve their comments. So, if you are a regular reader and I haven’t had the chance to add your registration information (if you have not received an email from me then you still need to register) please register yourself and I will approve you. [Read more →]
So that I do not dwell on this any further, I feel the need to do a “final purge” of the happenings the past few days on this blog. Some of you know of the huge dump that the Washington Post’s blog “IntelDump” took on my blog the other day. We were an easy target for the blog author Phillip Carter, so we were thrown under the bus and he got noticed. Nice, eh? The funny thing is, Carter claimed in his article that the real issue at hand was the fact that “Stand To” linked to an article that was clearly an anti-Obama piece, but the problem is he did not really make that the focus of the entry. He quotes and talks more about our blog and what Mr. H! wrote. He even made sure to purposely inflame his readership by linking us with Limbaugh and Fox News (accusing us of only using these two as sources of information). He set it up. He forgot to reiterate to his readership that the real issue at hand was the military, not us. Convienent, no?
I got thousands of hits that day from Washington Post and several other sources that had linked to his article. I went to Washington Post and posted on the comment thread twice. I was respectful both times, but I would like my readers to read a couple of comments left on Phillip Carter’s blog for me. These were lifted verbatim, copied and pasted. I refuse to link to his blog, so if you want the source just Google his name and the name of his blog.
may be your son who is on duty in Iraq,, should come in a box,, or some of his limbs blown away,,, or come home with mental problems and are the govt is slow to give proper medical treatment,, then your eyes will be wide open,, isn’t it,,
Posted by: mugambo | June 12, 2008 5:56 PM
…………………………..
I hope that former army officers’s son doesn’t ever come home
Posted by: madashell | June 12, 2008 9:51 PM
……………………………
Thank God that Carter reads and pays about as close attention as his readers do. My son is already home, safe and sound. The crap-weasels who wrote those comments did so believing my son is still in Iraq (because Carter stated so). Aren’t they nice. Aren’t they oh so loving and progressive?
WaPo’s commenting policy states that “… User reviews and comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site.”
If I follow Carter’s own assertion to its logical conclusion (that linking to something equates endorsement), then I am left to draw one conclusion about his leaving (or linking if you will) comments on his blog that wishes the death of a deployed soldier: The Washington Post and Phillip Carter endorse the wishing death on a deployed soldier and stating such to his parents. If they did not think it was acceptable they would have removed it. As it stands now I really could give a rat’s behind what they do — they can remove it to try and save face, but I don’t think they care. I am sure they support our troops though, right?
I have received emails telling me that I should be dead, that my family should be dead (they are clever enough to not say that they want to kill me, so charges can’t be brought … but duh, it’s obviously a death threat). I have been called a Nazi.
The Nazi comments crack me up. I have never once in my entire life ever tried to silence another American Citizen by threat or intimdation, and yet the amoral asses who write those emails have the audacity to call ME the Nazi! Is that not the most delicious irony you have ever tasted in your life? I exercise my right to free speech, I am threatened and intimidated by fellow citizens because of it, and somehow I am the Nazi? Wow. This right here shows you the mentality I have been up against for the past couple of days.
I have deleted a lot of comments left here on my blog. I immediately came to KDIH once I realized I had been linked to and was a target for flaming, and got rid of my “about the author” page and put the comments on moderation. They will have to remain on moderation for a while. I am going to register my regular readers (those who comment frequently that I know) and erase the rest of the registered readers. You will have to register to comment at will and be approved to do so. All others will go through moderation until I am ready to register them. It’s a safe guard. I do a lot of work from home, I take care of a family, and I am dealing with some very painful orthopedic problems right now — I don’t have time to babysit my blog.
This was never an issue before in the past year that I have been writing, but thanks to Carter it is now. Which leaves me no other option than to award him the Knee Deep in the Hooah!’s official, prestigious “Jackass of the Day Award.”
Mr. Carter earned this award, not for exercising his right to free speech, but because of the unwarranted, unnecessary “bitch slap” we got from him and his readers for exercising our right to free speech. He also earned it for leaving comments on his blog wishing my son death, dismemberment or mental problems, and in doing so indirectly supporting that kind of speech to military members and their families.
So, here’s to you Phillip Carter (aka Mr.Ex-MP, Mr. Ex-Civil Affairs guy, and Mr. I’m all for the Vets.) Here’s to you.
My recipe blog is up and functional! I have added a handful of recipes and the database will be added to regularly. If you would like to bookmark the recipe site (or the D-Fac for KDH ;) ) please bookmark this address: www.recipes.kneedeepinthehooah.com
You can also access the recipe site by clicking on the “Claire’s Culinary Court” tab under my banner, or you can join Madge, Mavis, Marla and Mickie by clicking on the graphic on this page.
Bon Appetite!
Unless you leave the main page and see the comment window you may not realize that it went from “flat” to fabulous! I tried to figure out how to manipulate the comment box, but I am way too much of a beginner to do such things! I also had a hard time getting my banner set up the correct way. Sometimes you just have to throw your hands up into the air and admit that you just don’t know what to do, and you don’t have the time to study it (and even if you did you probably still wouldn’t know what in the heck to do!)
I started looking for someone who could help me with the fine tuning of the blog. I decided to look up the person who designed the theme that I am using.
I wrote him a note. He asked what I wanted, and I told him. It was finished quickly and done very well. I highly recommend him. His prices are very fair, his work is good and he is easy to work with. If you have a blog need, or even if you don’t, take a jaunt over to “Antbag” and check out the great resources and articles.
If you tried to visit and got an error message this afternoon that was just me learning about SQL Databases. Fun, fun, fun stuff! Never a dull moment!
I am busy putting together a site to store all of my recipes for the chow and such area. Stay tuned for some more fun mishaps here at knee deep! The most valuable lesson I have learned … and what saved my neck today is, backup, backup, backup! Always back up your files before playing in the system! :)
Welcome to the new home of Knee Deep. I have been knee deep in the crash course of php code and css styling, but it is starting to make a lot of sense (which is scary). I wanted to get a private domain since I know that Blogger is automatically blocked for a lot of people. When Bryan was on base he could never access my blog from any of the local computers (owned by the DoD) since it was a blogspot.com address. We didn’t want to pay for personal Internet connection, so he was stuck. I understand why they block Blogger and I would not criticize a decision like this on the publicly used computers that are owned by another party. In a nut shell, I switched here so that my site could be accessed by more people, and I was ready to spread my wings a little and give owning a domain and building my own site a try.
The page tabs above are still under construction, but will be up with lots of good things in the very near future. I wanted to go ahead and make the switch today.
If you have me bookmarked (well, heck even if you don’t!) please bookmark my new site. I have blogger on auto forward, but eventually that blog will be put to rest. The forward does tend to slow the loading of this page, but not too much. This site’s address is www.kneedeepinthehooah.com
Have a great weekend!
I have showcased some of Bryan’s artwork here before, but today I want to direct you to his new online gallery. It has a handful of his work that serves as an example as to what he can do.
Enter 
We finally broke down and bought a domain name and are busy working on building two new websites. I am building a blog and Mr. Hooah! is building a gallery to showcase his art work. We are both very excited about the new sites. I really have loved using Blogger, but I know that Blogger is often blocked immediately from a lot of computers. Mr. Hooah! used a computer lab at HHC and could not access my page, so I had to wonder if it would be studious to switch to a private domain name.
Mr. Hooah! is planning on using his time rehabbing to work on some new pieces of fine art that we can showcase on the Gallery. He is considering doing a couple of Military related pieces that depict military family life and patriotism. My husband is an art snob, so I know that what ever he does it will be the anti-schmaltz! I am really excited for him, and the best part is when he re-enters the military this is a business that we can continue to build.
We also plan on finishing some of the designs I had started in order to make t-shirts, prints and the like. They will be a mixed genre.
The new blog will be a lot like this one, only a cleaner and a little more organized. I am hoping to use a tab navigated site so that I can add pages to the blog that readers can choose to view if they would like, but it will not be all over the front page.
I will post the new site here as well as redirect traffic to the new place. It’s time for a blog warming party! You all are invited, so look for your invitation coming soon!
Have a great Monday!