I started blogging on November 5, 2003, and received 4,960,172 visits since then. I briefly tasted big blog success, and it was good. Mostly. Thank you, readers! It still amazes me.
Will I resurrect past glory? Maybe. Perhaps, one day. Such things used to mean a lot more to me than they do now.
Blogging is no longer rebellious or novel. It just…is. My whole life I’ve tried to be different from the crowd. It’s a compulsion. However, a blog is still a wonderful medium, and I encourage anyone to give it try.
When I started back in 2003, however, it felt new and exciting. These days, I still see the value in it, and I can’t imagine giving it up. But I’ve mellowed in six years, and some things just aren’t worth the aggravation. My blog is nowhere near as popular as it once was, and that’s by design. I slowed down, chilled out, and took it in stride. Now, I make a living blogging and writing for others.
“La Shawn Barber’s Corner,” and the wonderful people I’ve met online and in person, made it possible.
“…I saw that baby trying to get away from the probe that the doctor was using…I just wanted to make it stop…I could see it twisting and just saw it crumble…I will never do this again.”
Christians, pray that the Spirit of God convicts more Planned Parenthood workers and infuses them with the courage to expose the abortion mill’s practices.
Some pro-lifers oppose publishing photos of aborted babies. I’m not too wild about it, myself. But…
I think people who believe women have a right to kill their unborn babies, and pregnant women considering it, should know what it looks like. They should fully understand that this is no ordinary “medical” procedure. A tiny, developing human being is violently torn from the mother’s womb.
You’ve probably heard about this phishing scam on the news, or you may have fallen for it. A scammer sends an innocuous looking e-mail. You open it, click on a link, and the scammer steals your password. No attachment downloading required.
The scammer pretends to be you and sends an e-mail to your contacts. You’re in a foreign country, and you’ve lost your wallet and need cash fast. Someone hacked into an LBC reader’s e-mail account and sent this to his contacts:
“My Predicament!!
Thursday, November 5, 2009 7:32 AM
From:
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To:
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This had to come in a hurry and it has left me in a devastating state,I’m writing this with tears in my eyes,I came down here to London,England for a short vacation to visit a resort and got mugged at gun point last night at the park of the hotel where i checked in.All cash,credit cards and cell were stolen off me.My flight leaves today and i’m having problems settling the hotel bills.
The hotel manager won’t let me leave until i settle the hotel bills($1,940) now am freaked out.Please reply and let me if can you have the money wired to me through western union i promise to pay back as soon as i get back home.”
Most people are smart enough not to fall for this, but just in case…
But that doesn’t mean the fight’s over. There’s something about that “will of the people” jazz some politicians just don’t like. Fundamentally. For example, 54 percent of voting Californian’s barred their government from hiring, contracting, and admitting on the basis of race. Thirteen years later, the California legislature drafted a bill bringing back set-aside contracting for minority businesses. Last summer, Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the racial quota bill into law…although the constitution, which he swore to uphold, prohibits it.
Well done, voters of Maine. Last November, California voters (including me) said YES to adding the understood-throughout-the-ages definition of marriage to the state constitution: Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California. The vote in Maine will be challenged, just as it was in California.
Avoid poverty and overcome inequality by getting married before you have children.
“Although immigration and trade are often blamed, a more important reason for our lack of progress against poverty and our growing inequality is a dramatic change in American family life. Almost 30 percent of children now live in single-parent families, up from 12 percent in 1968. Since poverty rates in single-parent households are roughly five times as high as in two-parent households, this shift has helped keep the poverty rate up; it climbed to 13.2 percent last year. If we had the same fraction of single-parent families today as we had in 1970, the child poverty rate would probably be about 30 percent lower than it is today.”
Follow the path to upward mobility by getting married before you have children.
“Of course money is a factor in upward mobility, but it isn’t the only one; it may not even be the most important. Our research shows that if you want to avoid poverty and join the middle class in the United States, you need to complete high school (at a minimum), work full time and marry before you have children. If you do all three, your chances of being poor fall from 12 percent to 2 percent, and your chances of joining the middle class or above rise from 56 to 74 percent. (We define middle class as having an income of at least $50,000 a year for a family of three.)”
Building a nest first, then having children…building a nest first, then having children, protects children from a multitude of social pathologies.
A child’s risk of being poor, a high school drop-out, a juvenile delinquent, or knocked up as a teenager (or knocking up a teenager) decreases if the child’s father is married to his mother and living in the same home as the child. In other words, if you want to give your children the best foundation possible, being married to their father is a good start. Generally speaking.
I forgot to note my blogiversary. Again. I forgot last year, too. 
Some pro-lifers oppose publishing photos of aborted babies. I’m not too wild about it, myself. But…
You’ve probably heard about this phishing scam on the news, or you may have fallen for it. A scammer sends an innocuous looking e-mail. You open it, click on a link, and the scammer steals your password. No attachment downloading required.
Avoid poverty and overcome inequality by getting married before you have children.