May 072018
 

98-RichardA

We know very little about Richard.  He’s new and has left less than fifty comments here.  He very rarely, if ever has talked about himself.

He is a denizen of Care2, and you’ll find his profile almost naked, but I was able to glean his favorite quotes from it.

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power,

the world will know peace.”

~ Jimi Hendrix ~ 

 

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

~ Martin Luther King Jr.~

 

"Do all the good you can,

By all the means you can,

In all the ways you can,

In all the places you can,

At all the times you can

To all the people you can

As long as ever you can!"

~ John Wesley ~

 

“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

He seems to be a very nice guy and I hope that, when he wins his next Big Mouth Award, we will know him better.

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May 022018
 

Compared to March, April results were down in Uniques and Visits and strongly up in every other category.  It appears that less people are doing more.  I certainly prefer that to pit stops.

Here is our latest summary:

Stats4-2018

Reported period

Month Apr 2018

 

 

 

 

First visit

01 Apr 2018 – 00:00

 

 

 

 

Last visit

30 Apr 2018 – 13:22

 

 

 

 

 

Unique visitors

Number of visits

Pages

Hits

Bandwidth

Viewed traffic *

6,112

 

26,534

(4.34 visits/visitor)

197,950

(7.46 Pages/Visit)

436,246

(16.44 Hits/Visit)

24.15 GB

(954.49 KB/Visit)

Not viewed traffic *

 

 

 

1,102,480

1,394,766

26.69 GB

 

Reported period

Month Apr 2017

 

 

 

 

First visit

01 Apr 2017 – 00:01

 

 

 

 

Last visit

30 Apr 2017 – 23:59

 

 

 

 

 

Unique visitors

Number of visits

Pages

Hits

Bandwidth

Viewed traffic *

9,130

 

27,885

(3.05 visits/visitor)

82,700

(2.96 Pages/Visit)

209,048

(7.49 Hits/Visit)

6.67 GB

(250.88 KB/Visit)

Not viewed traffic *

 

 

 

401,079

456,798

8.90 GB

 

Compared with last April, we are down in Uniques and Visits and up in every other category.

Here is our ClustrMap for 2018 YTD.  This is four months’ traffic.

ClustrMap4-2018

ClustrMap misses a lot of visits, because many visits can’t be easily traced to a location.

Here are our top five articles:

DO NOT CONGRATULATE! 3/21/2018 2,512
Everyday Erinyes #119 4/14/2018 1,231
Everyday Erinyes #117 3/31/2018 895
A Very Strange Kind of Republican 4/25/2018 780
Trolling Trump! 4/9/2018 716

The count represents only the people who opened the page for that specific article.  Three were from April.   Two were from last month.  Kudos to JD, who wrote the second and third.  I wrote the other three.  These results were excellent!

Here are our top non-blog/news referrers (100 referral minimum):

Google 3,743
Care2 3,205
Stumbleupon 598
Baidu 143
Facebook 124

Google and Care2 are up.  Stumbleupon and Facebook are down.  Baidu made the list again.   I opted not to link back to Facebook, because their management has been acting completely like Republicans.

Here are our top  blog/news referrers:

https://crooksandliars.com/
http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://littlewinginc.blogspot.com/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
https://globalglassonion.blogspot.co.uk/
http://hamsandwich66.blogspot.com/
http://justanotherwillyloman.blogspot.com/
http://www.synapticstew.com/
http://www.themidnightreview.com/
http://kcecelia.blogspot.com/

We had 11 sites with 2 or more referrals, up 1 from April.  Putting blogs’ links here increases the ratings of their sites, so this “linkey love” is our thank you for their referral support.  We still need to improve this.  I still think I need to start visiting our blog roll, which is terribly out of date.

As of midnight May 1, we had 8,164 articles and 97,850 comments.

Nobody earned a Big Mouth Award in April.

I recommend using your own avatar. Go to Gravatar.  Sign up using the email address you use to post comments here and upload the image you want to use as your avatar.  Whenever you comment under that email address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that image will become your avatar.

Your Administrators are Lynn Squance, aka Sasquatch or Squatch, SoINeedAName, aka Nameless, and I, aka TomCat, the Founder.  Your Editors are Joanne Dixon, aka JD the Erynator and Lona Goudswaard, aka Lona the Napster.  I  promoted them from Author in August 2017 to give them the ability to add graphics to comments and the ability to correct my innumerable typos.

This is our policy on links.  We do not embed links to extreme Republican websites, like Faux Noise, Breitfart or World Nut Daily.  However I leave notes in square brackets when I delete such links, (example: [faux noise delinked]) so readers, who wish to follow them can click through to the source article.  I also remove topical links.  Finally, I blank the target on all links, so they open in a new tab or window.

We now have six months, before we will have a major opportunity to reclaim part of our nation from the monster that possesses all three branches of government.  If you haven’t started working toward that end, the time to do so is yesterday.

Thank you for your support here and for all you do, everywhere you do it.

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May 012018
 

Here are the results of our “2018 Issues” poll.  Politics Plus Polls are not scientific, because those who respond are not balanced according to demographic categories.   Therefore, we do not accurately reflect the makeup of the US population.  Nevertheless, our polls are usually factually accurate, and more often than not, they reflect thinking of the majority of those who actually do think.

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And here are your comments:

Showing comments 16 of 6.

Posted by Yvonne White  April 19, 2018 at 10:46 am.

 

The economy directly effects the social issues…so I picked both equally.

 

Posted by SoINeedAName  April 7, 2018 at 12:54 am.

 

I picked the center line.

Always subject to change if Twitler sticks w/ ramping up his idiotic Trade War w/ China and the economy tanks because of it.

 

Posted by Joanne D  April 5, 2018 at 8:57 am.

 

Trick question. Social and economic issues are so intertwined that one cannot be truly addressed without the other. Republicans here in the US have been conning us for decades if not centuries trying to convince us that one is more important than the other, ‘Tain’t so.

 

Posted by gene jacobson  April 5, 2018 at 4:21 am.

 

I went with Lona, economic issues are rising in importance but that’s due to the bungling of Trump more than real issues with our economy and can be handled. What we are truly struggling with are social issues of every king with racism leading the list. Those we MUST deal with and they will decide the 2018 and 2020 elections, in my opinion.

 

Posted by Lona Goudswaard  April 2, 2018 at 11:41 pm.

 

I voted "more social and less economic issues" because I believe important economic issues such as poverty and the ever widening gap between the 1% and the rest are social issues in core. Even climate change is a social issue and can only be battled in a serious way with equality and shared responsibility.

 

Posted by Mitch D.  April 2, 2018 at 1:23 pm.

 

Wow! at this point every vote agrees with mine.

At this point, with embargoes creating embargoes, tDump yelling thing about no DACA, and the right wing-nuts trying to demean the kids from Parkland, I think the Dems will do best with a message that revolves around economic and social inclusion.

I voted more economic and less social issues.  While I agree that social and economic issues are equally important, I recognize that is a progressive view, and we progressives are a minority of voters.  The majority are less concerned with politics and tend to vote their pocketbooks and wallets.  Concentrating more on economic issues, without forgetting social issues, and supporting each other’s issues will help attract these voters.

The new poll is up.

VOTE!

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Apr 032018
 

Compared to February, March results were down in Uniques and strongly up in every other category.  I’m not sure why, but I’m pleased.

Here is our latest summary:

Stats3-2018

Reported period

Month Mar 2018

 

 

 

 

First visit

01 Mar 2018 – 00:01

 

 

 

 

Last visit

31 Mar 2018 – 23:59

 

 

 

 

 

Unique visitors

Number of visits

Pages

Hits

Bandwidth

Viewed traffic *

6,308

 

27,944

(4.42 visits/visitor)

163,094

(5.83 Pages/Visit)

372,150

(13.31 Hits/Visit)

22.19 GB

(832.78 KB/Visit)

Not viewed traffic *

 

 

 

1,052,590

1,388,948

27.02 GB

Reported period

Month Mar 2017

 

 

 

 

First visit

01 Mar 2017 – 00:00

 

 

 

 

Last visit

31 Mar 2017 – 23:59

 

 

 

 

 

Unique visitors

Number of visits

Pages

Hits

Bandwidth

Viewed traffic *

10,021

 

30,230

(3.01 visits/visitor)

95,246

(3.15 Pages/Visit)

270,998

(8.96 Hits/Visit)

6.99 GB

(242.42 KB/Visit)

Not viewed traffic *

 

 

 

420,963

485,214

9.63 GB

Compared with last March  we are down in Uniques and Visits and up in every other category.

Here is our ClustrMap for 2018 YTD.  If it seems sparse, remember that this is only three month’s traffic.

Map3-2018

ClustrMap misses a lot of visits, because many visits can’t be easily traced to a location.

Here are our top five articles:

Personal Update – 3/16/2018 3/16/2018 1,075
Samantha Bee from 3/14 3/15/2018 857
Conor Lamb for Congress 3/12/2018 810
Happy St. CATrick’s Day 3/17/2018 789
Tillerson Out Pompeo In 3/13/2018 747

The count represents only the people who followed an external link to that specific article.  All were from March.   I wrote all five.  I’m at a loss to understand why that personal update led the list 1ith over a thousand referrals.  A cat with a flat is of no political import.

Here are our top non-blog/news referrers (100 referral minimum):

Google 3,066
Care2  2,577
Stumbleupon 612
Yandex 199
Facebook 190

All five are strongly up.  Yandex is the Russian government’s version of Google and more.  Since I advised you to UNPLUG!! several times, I found it ironic that Facebook made the list.  I opted not to link back to Yandex or Facebook, because their behavior makes them Republican sites.

Here are our top  blog/news referrers:

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
https://cannavistmom.wordpress.com/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://littlewinginc.blogspot.com/
http://crooksandliars.com/
https://afeatheradrift.wordpress.com/
http://pleasecutthecrap.com/
http://www.davedubya.com/
http://welcome-to-pottersville2.blogspot.com/

We had 10 sites with 2 or more referrals, up 1 from March.  Putting blogs’ links here increases the ratings of their sites, so this “linkey love” is our thank you for their referral support.  We still need to improve this.  I still think I need to start visiting our blog roll, which is terribly out of date.

As of midnight April 1, we had 8,100 articles and 97,106 comments.

Pat B earned a Big Mouth Award in February for the 97,000th comment.

I recommend using your own avatar. Go to Gravatar.  Sign up using the email address you use to post comments here and upload the image you want to use as your avatar.  Whenever you comment under that email address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that image will become your avatar.

Your Administrators are Lynn Squance, aka Sasquatch or Squatch, SoINeedAName, aka Nameless, and I, aka TomCat, the Founder.  Your Editors are Joanne Dixon, aka JD the Erynator and Lona Goudswaard, aka Lona the Napster.  I  promoted them from Author in August 2017 to give them the ability to add graphics to comments and the ability to correct my innumerable typos.

This is our policy on links.  We do not embed links to extreme Republican websites, like Faux Noise, Breitfart or World Nut Daily.  However I leave notes in square brackets when I delete such links, (example: [faux noise delinked]) so readers, who wish to follow them can click through to the source article.  I also remove topical links.  Finally, I blank the target on all links, so they open in a new tab or window.

We now have just a little over six months, before we will have a major opportunity to reclaim part of out nation from the monster that possesses all three branches of government.  If you haven’t started working toward that end, the time is past due.

Thank you for your support here and for all you do, everywhere you do it.

RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!

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Poll Result – 4/2/2018

 Posted by at 12:07 pm  Blog News, Politics
Apr 022018
 

Here are the results of our “Dump Trump” poll.  Politics Plus Polls are not scientific, because those who respond are not balanced according to demographic categories.   Therefore, we do not accurately reflect the makeup of the US population.  Nevertheless, our polls are usually factually accurate, and more often than not, they reflect thinking of the majority of those who actually do think.

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And here are your comments. (The site changed what they were doing)

Showing comments 19 of 9.

Posted by Rixar13  16 hours ago.

 

Impeach and convict

 

Posted by Terry S.  March 16, 2018 at 8:59 pm.

 

Voted I have no idea, because it will probably depend on how deep the

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is that Mueller finds, and which way the rethugs think will come closest to saving their asses. Hopefully, they won’t find any way TO save them.

 

Posted by SoINeedAName  March 4, 2018 at 12:05 pm.

 

I voted "No Idea" – but that’s because I think it’s almost a trick question.

Recalling the uproar Comey created by re-opening the Hillary email boondoggle just days before the election, it wouldn’t surprise me if Mueller holds off any announcement until after the 2018 election.

And since the new Congress (now controlled by Democrats in BOTH chambers) is not seated until noon on the 3rd day of January, 2019 – it impeachment will not occur "this year".

BUT I also think it’s quite possible that Trump will be so certifiably CRAZY that Mueller will act soon and with dispatch to quite literally save our nation and Constitution.

And yes, I think that Trump is under so much pressure he may actually go off the deep-end and pull a Queeg scenario just like in "Caine Mutiny".

It’s THAT BAD now.

 

Posted by Vivian B.   March 2, 2018 at 3:18 pm.

 

I have NO idea. The repukkklican have no guts and will probably stay with this crazy bunch until the wheels fall off! But you can never tell about them.

 

Posted by gene  March 2, 2018 at 2:43 am.

 

Am voting have no idea because so much depends on what Mueller finds. I read this morning that some on the Republican side, have suddenly realized that Mueller have EVIDENCE of Americans who were complicit in working with those 13 indicted Russians. From other things I’ve read, those could include McConnell, Ryan and others high up in the party chain. If that’s true, that changes the whole matter and we have a constitutional crisis on our hands because if convicted in a criminal trial, i don’t think any of them, Trump/Pence included could continue to hold office. That throws the whole government into disarray that will need be resolved by the Supreme Court – somehow, with no actual precedent. It is going to be an extremely interesting 18-24 months I think.

 

Posted by Katie and Bill  March 1, 2018 at 3:37 pm.

 

TRUMPY’S day is coming!

I agree with Lona

TURTLEMAN is looking more Crappy Faced every day!

Get them all!

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Posted by Lona Goudswaard  March 1, 2018 at 12:21 pm.

 

Standing with Drumpf is like most of the things the GOP are paid to stand behind; climate change denial or tax cuts to enrich the rich, their greed and stupidity prohibits them from seeing the consequences let alone acknowledge they have past a point of no return. They will doggedly continue to destroy the country and ultimately themselves. They’ll follow their Führer into his bunker.

 

Posted by Mitch D.  March 1, 2018 at 10:09 am.

 

I believe that the GOPIGS will just double down, will more loudly insist that it’s all nothing but a politically motivated scam. Faux News will spontaneously combust, as Hannity and ilk try to outdo one another with inflamatory oratory.

 

Posted by dave c  March 1, 2018 at 8:59 am.

 

I have no clue how republicans think once you get over their selfishness, greed, fear, and lying

I voted with the majority.  A few will make noise, but they love the way Trump keeps attention focused on his antics, leaving them free to pillage the country at will.

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Mar 282018
 

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Pat followed Politics Plus and commented for quite some time on Care2, where she has been active for years, she started commenting here at the site.  A few months later, she won her first Big Mouth Award for the 78,000th comment in May 2016. She became a daily regular and won her second award for the 85,000th comment in December 2016 and her third for the 93,000th comment in October 2017 This is her fourth award. She is a progressive activist, an authentic Christian, and a Michael Moore Fan.  If you tell her to go to hell, she’s likely to answer, “I already live there.”  The poor girl is a Texan. On the other hand, she loves her Houston Texans.  Her comments are still bright, witty and above all, compassionate.  Her kindness to WWWendy is legendary! Now, we need a Fantasy Football Replacement this fall.  Can we get her to play? Please join me in piling on her with well-deserved congrats, kudos and praise.  She loves to…

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Mar 022018
 

Compared to January, February results were down in every category.  It’s mostly because February has three fewer days.

Here is our latest summary:

Stats2-2018

Reported period

Month Feb 2018

 

 

 

 

First visit

01 Feb 2018 – 00:00

 

 

 

 

Last visit

28 Feb 2018 – 23:59

 

 

 

 

 

Unique visitors

Number of visits

Pages

Hits

Bandwidth

Viewed traffic *

6,618

 

25,582

(3.86 visits/visitor)

101,301

(3.95 Pages/Visit)

242,605

(9.48 Hits/Visit)

9.64 GB

(395.05 KB/Visit)

Not viewed traffic *

 

 

 

538,237

668,054

16.84 GB

Reported period

Month Feb 2017

 

 

 

 

First visit

07 Feb 2017 – 05:03

 

 

 

 

Last visit

28 Feb 2017 – 23:59

 

 

 

 

 

Unique visitors

Number of visits

Pages

Hits

Bandwidth

Viewed traffic *

7,893

 

23,334

(2.95 visits/visitor)

68,217

(2.92 Pages/Visit)

195,380

(8.37 Hits/Visit)

6.45 GB

(290.01 KB/Visit)

Not viewed traffic *

 

 

 

316,748

361,941

7.09 GB

Compared with last February  we are up in every category, except Uniques.

Here is our ClustrMap for 2018 YTD.  If it seems sparse, remember that this is only two month’s traffic.

ClustrMap2-2018

ClustrMap misses a lot of visits, because many visits can’t be easily traced to a location.

Here are our top five articles:

As Seen From Afar 2/1/2018 2/1/2018 642
Everyday Erinyes #110 2/10/2018 518
Blood Money Bought 17 Lives 2/15/2018 503
Poor or Middle Class? Get Vaseline! 2/13/2018 419
Bill Maher from 2/16 2/17/2018 348

The count represents only the people who followed an external link to that specific article.  All were from February.   I wrote three.  Kudos to Lona and JD for writing the top two!

Here are our top non-blog/news referrers (100 referral minimum):

Google 2,084
Care2  1,720
Stumbleupon 347

All three are down, but it’s the short month.

Here are our top  blog/news referrers:

https://mix.com/
http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
https://cannavistmom.wordpress.com/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://schoolforthegirlscourage.blogspot.co.ke/
http://welcome-to-pottersville2.blogspot.co.uk/
http://globalglassonion.blogspot.co.uk/
https://crooksandliars.com/

We had 9 sites  with 2 or more referrals, up 6 from February.  Putting blogs’ links here increases the ratings of their sites, so this “linkey love” is our thank you for their referral support.  We need to improve this.  I still think I need to start visiting our blog roll, which is terribly out of date.

As of midnight March 1, we had 8,029 articles and 96,380 comments.

JD earned a Big Mouth Award in February for the 96,000th comment.

I recommend using your own avatar. Go to Gravatar.  Sign up using the email address you use to post comments here and upload the image you want to use as your avatar.  Whenever you comment under that email address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that image will become your avatar.

Your Administrators are Lynn Squance, aka Sasquatch or Squatch, SoINeedAName, aka Nameless, and I, aka TomCat, the Founder.  Your Editors are Joanne Dixon, aka JD the Erynator and Lona Goudswaard, aka Lona the Napster.  I  promoted them from Author last August to give them the ability to add graphics to comments and the ability to correct my innumerable typos.

This is our policy on links.  We do not embed links to extreme Republican websites, like Faux Noise, Breitfart or World Nut Daily.  However I leave notes in square brackets when I delete such links, (example: [faux noise delinked]) so readers, who wish to follow them can click through to the source article.  I also remove topical links.  Finally, I blank the target on all links, so they open in a new tab or window.

Thank you for all you do, everywhere you do it.

I’ve been wondering if the flood of information from so many sources that the unprecedented  extremes under which we live have engendered is crowding us out.  Please spread PP however you can. 

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Poll Results – 3/1/2018

 Posted by at 11:36 am  Blog News, Politics
Mar 012018
 

Here are the results of our “Protect Mueller” poll.  Politics Plus Polls are not scientific, because those who respond are not balanced according to demographic categories.   Therefore, we do not accurately reflect the makeup of the US population.  Nevertheless, our polls are usually factually accurate, and more often than not, they reflect thinking of the majority of those who actually do think.

0301Poll

Since our polling site no longer enables us to copy and paste your poll comments, you may read them here.

I voted for toss up.  If the Fuhrer becomes desperate enough, he can engineer another Saturday Night Massacre.

The new poll is up, and you should find it interesting.  Please vote.

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