Foul Ball

Well, the Idiot is coming back to Washington.  He's claiming to have hit a home run - not so at all, more like a foul ball.  His supporters, however are happy, but then they didn't see the Idiot curtsy to the Saudi King; conservative media didn't report on that.  While the majority of the world saw those pictures of he and the Pope as bad press for the Idiot, his Evangelical supporters, most of whom really don't like Catholics in really huge way, saw things differently.  They saw a triumphant president standing next to a Pope who looked as though he'd just been read the riot act.  Perception is everything, you know.  Just to remind you, these people are the enemy.  You and I watched the Idiot shove his way through a crowd to put himself center stage, and then preen like a very, very over the hill porn star.  They watched as their leader demonstrated American superiority, making sure he stood above all of those smaller, European leaders.
Except, they pretty much treated the Idiot like white trash, a man who's caused so much pain and suffering in his life without caring.  Except for his minority group, most saw a fool.  I'm sure Moscow saw someone they believe they already got hooked.  They don't understand Putin sees the Idiot as the home run, hitting the Idiot out of the park means taking the US out of the game.  And that's what Putin really wants.  Of course, his Idiot followers don't realize this... because that would mean he's nothing more than a Ruskie pawn, an easy pitch to the losers who voted him into office.

Of course, now that the Idiot's back, the Russian shit is going to once again over whelm his administration.  That stink is continuing to grow, and grow.  And this is going to be so bad the Idiot's not even going to be able to bunt his way on to first base.  Heads will start to roll as he begins to realize the only way out of this is for a sacrifice play... except he doesn't realize there isn't anybody on base.

Blogging, no big bucks there

For some unknown reason there are a number of people out there who believe there is quite a bit of money to be earned blogging.  Surprise, this is, for the most part, horse shit.  Now I'm not saying people aren't making money off of their blogs, but they are few and far between.  How do I know?  Well, I belong to a community of bloggers on Linkedin and the question was put out to the group.  Out of all the responses, only 5 claimed to be putting good money in their pockets.  The vast majority said they did it either for fun or had yet to receive any revenue.  Most of the comments were on the amusing side.  Evidently you need to average at least 25,000 hits per day to even scratch the income surface and a lot of those hits need to be clicking on your ads.  In some cases the ads, themselves, are not free. Nobody wants to pay for an ad no one else has any interest in viewing.  I've seen bloggers plead for people to click on the ads.  When that begins to happen you are in a very bad place.

For me, the joy of blogging is in being able to say what I want.  I get to tell people about things I find interesting.  I get to point out what I believe to be stupidities to people.  Now and then I publicly question why something is happening, or why certain people do things.  If people read what I write, that's fine, it's just as fine with me if they don't.  Any one who starts blogging because they believe they're going to make their fortune at it has their head up their ass.  It's like wanting to be a major league baseball player, or be in the NFL or AFL, or any other sport.  Millions of people dream, but those who actually make big bucks are almost as rare as hen's teeth.