Anyone have any alternatives to Sitemeter? It has been nearly constantly offline for over a week.
Yeah, I know it is a free service and I shouldn’t bitch (at least, I’m not paying for anything). And yes, I am getting exactly the service I am paying for. But still.
Any suggestions? Any comments on other statistics collectors? Any good or bad comments about any of them?
‘Cause while the service may be free, it lately hasn’t even been worth that.
Not to make light of the individual tragedies that have happened in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy….But I’d feel more sorry for these folks if it weren’t for the fact that every few years people in the Midwest have to deal with power outages at least twice this long (in serious winter cold) and it never makes the mainstream news..In fact the media doesn’t care.
Ice storms happen, and the people of the Midwest just prepare for and deal with the aftermath of the outages.They don’t protest nor do they expect the feds to come and fix it. Floods happen, and the Feds don’t care at all.
I am growing tired of the coverage of (and the whining by) the people who were “victimized” by Hurricane Sandy. The folks who seem to feel that the “government” should fix their uninsured homes (or homes that were less than 6 feet above sea level that flooded and aren’t covered because their owners chose not to purchase flood insurance). Folks who seem to have the attitude that “it shouldn’t happen here” because they are the chosen people of New York or something. Folks who made few (if any) preparations for a storm that they KNEW was coming days in advance and would bring HUGE tidal/storm surges, power outages and infrastructure damage. Folks who live on a barrier island where it was inevitable that this sort of storm damage would happen sometime. Yet they are somehow more victims than the rest of the people who have tragedies throughout the country. Folks who made choices and expect someone else to fix the consequences.
We only get coverage of them because they are close to the newsmakers homes. When tragedies like floods happen in Kentucky or Tennessee or Iowa, or ice storms in Oklahoma or Missouri, or wildfires “somewhere out West” then the media ignores that news ’cause it isn’t close to home, and likely they aren’t even sure where, exactly, those places are.
And had Bush been in office (or, no doubt, any Republican) the cries would be loud and long that he/she wasn’t doing enough to help New Yawk/New Joisey recover. But the current White House occupant gets a pass to go golfing.
Strange, that.
If Christmas was on a Sunday, we would’t move it to the next closest Monday.
If the 4th of July fell on a Sunday, we’d not celebrate it on the 5th either.
So WHY IN THE HELL do government offices and Banks move their holiday to the next Monday?
It dilutes what the holiday is for…
I realize that it makes for an extra paid day off for a lot of people, but so what?
It’s not like they are going to bother (or care) to remember WHY they got the damned day off.
ok, rant off
But now it is investigated and treated as a crime.
Strangely though, THESE never led to any arrests or investigations 4 years ago.
Strange that. Innit?
Perhaps the Dear Leader is less of a man? Maybe he is afraid of a 22 year old girl? Maybe he’s a wimp and has to sic the Not So Secret Service on her..(maybe they were out of Colombian prostitutes to play with and had to find something to do???)…… (I probably shouldn’t say things like that either, in case I get a visit from some guys with a distinctively SS attitude).
If I suddenly quit posting you’ll know what happened to me….
Still trying to raise awareness for Tam.
And Old NFO has a raffle going on.
And JayG has links and another raffle going.
If you’d be so kind as to send a donation and help me help my friend, I’d appreciate it.
You go boy.
And say “Thank you”
I would like to take this time to say “thank you” to each and every veteran.
While the press may not give you the attention your day deserves, I appreciate your service,
Thank you for the freedoms I have, and the sacrifices you have made, both large and small, to make sure I keep it.
11th day, 11th month, 11th hour.
I’ll remember. Hope you do too.
Say “thank you” even if it is to those that can no longer hear you.
So I won’t even try.
Read.
Hope it don’t come to that. But I think it will. And actually, I’m good with his methods of resistance.
No matter what, it ends in SWAT though
