This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

Category: Administrative

  • A note to all

    Ace of Spades has had some trouble lately with folks who think that real racism is funny. I hope he won’t mind if I quote him;

    Some Republicans are, alas, the exact same sort of unsophisticated angry morons who shout things like “Terrorist” about Obama when McCain is speaking, thus putting him on the extreme defensive, or having temper tantrums on blogs when the proprietor requests they refrain from exposing him to any lawsuits.

    They substantially vindicate every stereotype the left and MSM has about us, and make the rest of us not only look bad, but make us squeamish from even being political associates. And they lose us precious votes.

    And yet these screamers and tantrum-throwers really think they’re the ones helping the team. These malformed, brain-damaged shut-in angry monsters think they’ve got the right message to carry to the non-deformed, non-retarded demographics.

    Ace is a much better wordsmith than I, but I think I’d add, for those who don’t understand, just because we’re falsly accused of racism doesn’t mean that all behavior is excused and that racism, sexism, etc… doesn’t exist.

    A few moments ago, I deleted a comment that was blatantly racist and used some Huck Finn dialogue to make absolutely no point whatsoever. Now, I’m not sure if the author was serious, or if he was a plant (I suspect the latter) but I won’t tolerate that kind of gibberish here.

    For one thing, there are a few blogs in my blogroll that are blocked by my employer’s filter for their content. I’d be embarrassed if this blog was blocked by my own employer because of some numbnuttery by a commenter. Ace makes the point that LGF is labeled as a hate site web-wide not because of anything Charles Johnson has written but because of a tiny number of the commenters who thought they were being clever.

    We get outraged at blatant crap like this;

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  • Ya know what?

    It was two years ago I was suspended from my very last discussion forum and I started doing research on starting my own blog (and stopped bringing in traffic for other people). Five days later, I wrote my first post on This Ain’t Hell. The name of the blog came from the title of a book about a journalist’s experiences with troops in Desert Storm written by Barry McWilliams and one of my favorite of the genre;

    But, anyway, I had a comment on the first post which only encouraged me to continue blathering away nearly every day for the last two years.

    So, how do I remember the day I was suspended from a discussion forum? Well, today is the 32d anniversary of my 21st birthday. How does that effect you? Well, there are two other guys with admin permissions here, and I’m going to take the day off and let them run the place today. Maybe TSO will regale you with his tales of misadventures in Vegas last weekend and COB6 can tell war stories about the night we took the company’s platoon leaders into town and showed them how to party like NCOs.

    Enjoy yourselves and I’ll see you tomorrow morning.

  • A moment of silence, please

    The hamster that powered the comments died this morning, so I had to put another one in the wheel. If you wrote a comment this morning the dead hamster didn’t put it in the comments section and your brilliant thought is lost forever. Please repost it.

  • WordPress Update

    A good friend of mine updated my version of WordPress tonight and everything seems to be working fine, but if you have problems with something email me at admin(at)thisainthell(dot)us. Most of the changes aren’t things you’ll see, though.

  • It wasn’t me (Bumped and Updated)

    All comments have disappeared and it wasn’t me. I’m working to get them back. Right now my commenter counter is telling me no one has ever commented here, so I’ve got a problem.

    UPDATE 3:30 pm EST: I’m still working on it despite the best efforts of WordPress and Yahoo! to not help. Trust me. If you haven’t noticed, https://www.azuse.cloud isn’t working, if that’s what you have bookmarked, change it to http://thisainthell.us

    UPDATE 5:30 PM EST: I’ve restored the /blog portion of the blog, but I still haven’t got comments back.

    UPDATE 6:30 PM EST: In the interim, I’ve set up an alternate blog at WordPress. If you feel the need to comment, you can comment over there and I’ll bring the comments over here after I get the problems worked out. All of the posts you love at a different host. In fact bookmark that new blog and I’ll try to keep it updated with this one for emergencies like today. To TSO and COB6, you should be able to log in over there, too.

    UPDATE 9:40 PM EST: Heh! There it is back to normal. Comment away, folks.

  • Sitemeter fixed

    Raoul emailed me to say that sitemeter was messin’ with you guys still using Internet Explorer. I guess a lot of blogs had the same problem so I took it out. Thanks, Raoul. I use Firefox so I didn’t notice it, but I can see now that it works in IE – so that must’ve been the problem. That explains why traffic’s been so dreary this weekend.

    But, it gives me an excuse to brag a bit about how well you folks have supported this blog this past month. Best. Month. Ever.

    Thanks for your patronage and participation. It only reinforces my contention that COB6, TSO and I make a great team since July was our first complete month together.

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    I have other statistics that indicate that visitorship is higher (more than double actually), but this gives a good indication of how we’ve grown over the past year. Thanks to all of you…and bring your friends over.

  • Have a safe Fourth of July weekend

    rongkirby living the Declaration of Independence

    By the time this post publishes, I’ll be deep in bitter country headed to Mom’s house for a weekend of sitting in the backyard and not caring what happens inside the Beltway, Maybe I’ll get to toss back some Saranacs with Cousin Scott and eat some world-class barbeque. But mostly, I’ll be with my Mom (also a reader and commenter here).
    I’ll be driving safely, I expect all of ya’all to do the same. TSO and COB6 will be holding down the fort, so visit often.

  • My inaugaral post

    Now, I know the jeopardy of having my first post just oozing with estrogen, but the man that wore that crazy blue shirt up to West Chester can’t possibly hit me for this one, and the only other likely culprit is LT Nixon, and I heard he’s spending all his free time trolling the upper midwest for men.

    So anyway, hello this ain’t hell minions! I’m your not-particularly humble correspondant TSO who has been waiting in vain for 4 days to find something blog worthy. And I think I found it.

    Meet 12 year old Minnesotan E’leese Madgett Manrique.

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    In her words:

    I am going to ride from town to town raising money. We will create a place where any soldier in need of a place to heal can go for free.The Ranch will not be fancy, in fact it will be humble. Just like the men and women that serve their country. Here in Minnesota we have a very good life. People in Minnesota have a long tradition of service and volunteering. Neighbor helping neighbor. The Ranch will be a number of cabins surrounding a lodge and dining room. Soldiers can spend the day lounging around. Taking a walk, going for a swim, or taking a horse out for a ride. Do ranch chores or relax, read a book, or have a good conversation, be our guest. For those who do so much for others, we thank you.

    She’s getting support from Minnesotan politicians like Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, and Governor (and dare I hope, VP candidate) Tim Pawlenty. Either way, the story is humbling. Some people *cough* IVAW *cough* Codestink *cough* talk about helping the vets, and others just get on their horse and get it done. Not that I would suggest that any groups are less mature than a 12 year old girl of course. *cough* liar *cough*

    Anyway, here is a long article about it, and if you are significantly less manly that I am, bring some kleenex. Thankfully, I am the paragon of manliness, and never succomb to such petty things as feelings.

    And, thus spake Ortner.

    (And like nearly all TSO posts to follow, this one initially replete with spelling and grammar errors.)