We’ve been accused from time to time of being, variously, a “CIA Internet Fake” or a Karl Rove plant or whatever other nonsense folks may dredge up here in Freedom of Speech land. Unfortunately, neither the CIA nor Rove nor “the Jews” have ever paid up. (Please see our blue donation form on the right of every page. We’ll take whatever we can get. Even via PayPal. We’re not proud.)
On that note then, NYPost reports on some of the companies who are paying bloggers in hopes of good reviews…
That’s the pitch from a handful of dubious Internet services offering to turn people into paid shills for advertisers. Their tactics have sparked a controversy similar to the one over fake blogs, or “flogs,” launched by Wal-Mart and Sony.
Some of these services offer money to bloggers to endorse a company or product, while others pay people to manipulate popularity rankings on sites such as Digg, Delicious and Reddit.
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PayPerPost is trying to take the lead in linking bloggers and advertisers, including the Speed Channel, PGA.com and Office Max. It recently changed its policy to require people it hires to disclose their advertiser connections. Bloggers aren’t required to give positive reviews.
While we have little interest in either the Speed Channel or the PGA, we’ve spent the bulk of the Christmas quiet time backing up, reformatting and restoring a hard drive on our ailing computer and still have yet to either finish, or fix the problem that seemed to be there in the first place.
So with that in mind, if Office Max — a fine, upstanding company, if ever we saw one — wishes to help out, we certainly could use both a new monitor and, at least, one new computer.
Given the lack of donations The BRAD BLOG seems to receive, along with Office Max’s reputation for offering only the best goods and services available at some of the most reasonable prices in the industry (now offering fast, free delivery on most orders over $50!), we believe it’d be the perfect fit!
At least until “the Jews” come through with the big money as promised.
Brad, I thought “the Jews” ran Office Max!!!
But seriously, I’ll take Office Max or Circuit City over Best Buy, ANY DAY! Best Buy did NOT honor an extended warranty I had on a cellphone, basically, they told me to get f***’ed.
I never had a problem like that at Office Max or Circuit City.
Maybe “the Jews” are running Best Buy.
AGAIN, JUST KIDDING 🙂 !!!!!! Nuthin’??? Sorry…
As I always say, I don’t discriminate against any one religion, I think they are all equally full of crap!
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I gave at the office . . . . . Yes I did . . .
One Small Step Continues to support Bradblog. We donated a dozen copies of Politics as Usual. We have advertised on Bradblog offering incentives to those buying the game that we would also donate a portion of the profit to Bradblog.
One Small Step is an interesting company. We have a hard core Republican and me a Hardcore Liberal. Of course the Republican has taken full control so my hands are often tied on the direction we go including the website. Politics as Usual is my baby and it is one of the better sellers for the company. It can be found on Ebay and online stores for anywhere from 12.98 up to 20 bucks. It retails for 24.95. Mom and pop stores can get it but if they don’t push for it they can’t get it through the major distributors because they refuse to stock it. But it is availible through Impressions and us.
If you interested in getting a great game for yourself or for a present get it through BradBlog to support them and support yourself with hours of entertainment.
15 Bucks plus shipping will get a 5 dollar donation to BradBlog and get you a solid game. It will also help me be able to work on other Progressive games to educate the masses.
If I could do more I would. If anyone has played the game please let us know what you think. Thanks.
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Hey BB crew~~
Interesting angle on the fundraising…I hope it works! Haven’t been very active in the election fraud arena of late, but I am glad to see Clint Curtis is taking it to that scumbag Feeney, and that the Jennings isn’t taking any shit from Buchanan in NC!! If work keeps steady in the litigation support biz, I should be able to send some funds for this incredibly valuable site!!
Thanks Brad for all you do, and Happy New Year!! Any word on Kennedy’s lawsuit against Diebold? Haven’t heard anything in other alt-press venues…
Styve
I’m Jewish Catholic and damn proud of it!!!!!
I’ve had correspondents call me “Jew-boy” in private in recent times. I guess Cannon strikes some folks as a Jewish name.
You know, semi-seriously, I’ve noted a real upsurge in the grosser forms of anti-Semitism in Blogostan Left lately. I’m not talking about criticism of Israel. (I’m a critic of Israel myself. I see it as a nation among all other nations, and like most other nations, it’s run by louts and loons and brigands.)
Something worse than that has been bubbling up lately. I’m talking about the old “Jewish banking conspiracy” canards. That type of anti-Semitism was always floating around the edges of the anti-Clinton crusades of the 1990s. And now — call me paranoid — but I think I can see it floating around the edges of the anti-Bush movement.
This could get very ugly and very weird.
Of course, my Zionist overlords paid me to say that.
To “BE THE MEDIA” , “Somebody’s got to” pay . . .
I’m Russian and Italian, my wife is German…so I guess our kids are the WWII “Axis of Evil”…
Why not sell out the Brad-blog? After all, business and gov’t are merely quid-pro-quo whorehouses sold to the highest bidder. When the gov’t needs illegal wire-taps, Verizon and Sprint allow them secret rooms to listen in on calls. When Haliburton (and KBR) need more revenue, the gov’t hands out no-bid contracts. When the gov’t dislikes literature, Amazon and Wikipedia ban the book “America Deceived”. So now when the gov’t needs to convince the people that the ‘surge’ is the correct policy, they’ll enlist the Brad Blog. We The People had our gov’t (and blog) sold out from beneath us.
Final link (before Google Books caves to pressure and drops the title):
America Deceived (book)
Joseph Cannon #7
Wait’ll one calls you a “lying fuck” for suggesting he needs a physics primer.
Hey Brad, Are ya looking for a “New Bag” . . .
Joseph Cannon #7
hows selling your “blog” working for you ?
19 Arabs ,a superpower and a man in a cave – yea right !
mick the clown
Cannon #7,
I find that anti-semitism can show up in nearly any controversial aspect of modern life. So an international banking conspiracy becomes a jewish banking conspiracy, the lazy corporate run media becomes the jew media, a neocon war for middle east dominance becomes a zionist war started by a jewish cabal et c. Maybe its just a way of getting people to ignore real issues by constructing strawmen, or maybe neo nazis are just really good at infiltrating movements. If anti-semitism is spreading in the anti-war left, it’s because there is still a void of mainstream progressive voices for people to cling to so they go with whatevers out there – which in this case has an agenda beyond stopping war. Regarding the anti-bush movement, if people still think the problem starts and ends with him, they’re only going to get fooled again a couple years down the road.
BVAC comments like this don’t help the Jewish conspiracy claims…
“On the day of the September 11, 2001 attacks, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked how they could affect Israeli-U.S. relations. His quick reply was: “It’s very good”¦”¦.Well, it’s not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel)”.
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=10364
mick, I’ve made no attempt to sell my blog. Never mentioned such a thing. So, that presuming-your-fantasies-to-be-real thing — how’s THAT working out for you?
As for physics: I ran “all that stuff” by an honest-to-God professional physics researcher t’other day — Christmas Eve, in fact. (You won’t believe this story, but it’s true: A zillionaire doing a Dr. No trip hired my friend to work on an anti-gravity research project, which he, my friend, does not think will work, although he does like the paychecks.) His bottom line? Well, same as before: So, that presuming-your-fantasies-to-be-real thing — how’s THAT working out for you? (“You” in this case meaning people like Agent 99, not people like me.) At any rate, my friend knows quite a few top-name physicists. So before many months are out, we’ll be hearing from a few of those guys. And I’ll be very amused to hear you use that puerile “physics primer” line on THEM.
Maybe you better look up the word “puerile”…. One reserves that term for the childish. And, really, definitely, you need the physics primer. Nothing fancy. Basic grade school Newtonian. I’d hang around and swap physicists with you till you drop, Joe, but, honestly now, that’s so much sound and fury, signifying bubkes. One reserves that for when one wants to impress the weak-minded. Or is that your aim? Or is that as high as you can aim?
According to this:
http://slashdot.org/articles/06.../1423234.shtml
Microsoft is bribing bloggers with laptops (pre-loaded with Vista) for shilling their warez. I leave it to you to decide if that is really worth the “bargain”.
“Anyone want to used blog?”
I deleted that post, and actually accidentally deleted the “Anyone want to used blog?” post in the process. (Long story.) I haven’t rescinded that, but I cannot reconstitute the post. I apologize to those whose comments went missing. It was an accident.”
my mistake ,so “used blogs” aren’t like “used cars” ie. you sell them?
re.”physicists” , I work with physicist every day and all I can say is that in their field they can be very smart.Not one of them would I put in charge of a criminal investigation (as in 911).
Anybody who is happy with the “official story of 911” hasn’t been paying attention.Bush can repeal any law he wants but he can’t change the laws of physics .
mick
p.s. This video could do with some explanation from a friendly physicist.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/art...blecharges.htm
Ya can’t beat a good physic . . .
The falling was fishy, you’d a thunk they would have fell so far and toppled over…
Double indemnity payoff for a feller named Silverstein for a couple of asbestos filled ‘white elephants’ that would have had to have been removed at the expense of an outfit bought out by Cheney and friends…
Another Silverstein building filled with baddie corporate evidence worth billions in fines to the taxpayer falls in on itself…
Government grade anthrax (from Iowa) given out like candy to anyone who dared question the motives for silencing everyone with a Patriotic act ?
You have a right to be suspicious, no matter what some others may say
I’d like to follow that money around for a while, IMO
It’s all fishy & not enough people give a shit to demand a real investigation. It makes me sick.
Hey Mick! I hadn’t seen that video – thanks!
Hi Joe! You know full well that it is you who has provoked all the CD-related vitriol directed at yourself at your blog. If it bothers you so much, quit provoking people to the point where they tell you to shut up. The real tragedy is that in all other respects your site is a joy, and I would miss it and your curiosity and rhetoric sorely were you to give up the ship. Just my own feelings.
Has anyone else noticed that all the BradBlog snowflakes are the same?
My take on both 9/11 AND Israel is:
BOTH are not being debated professionally and openly, so something is “up”…
1. 9/11: Get experts from BOTH sides, in a multi-day publicized debate, and BOTH have to answer each others questions. The fact that this is not happening? Leads me to believe it’s an inside job. And debate is thwarted by slandersouly calling those on one side “tin foil hat”…
2. Israeli influence on U.S. policy: Get experts from BOTH sides, in a milti-day publicized debate, and BOTH have to answer each others questions. The fact that this is not happening? Leads me to believe there’s too much Israeli influence on U.S. policy. And debate is thwarted by slanderously calling those on one side “anti-semetic”…
HEY! HOLY SHIT! I TYPED THE SAME THING TWICE!!!!!!!!
It must be a tactic by the side that is wrong, to avoid debate and name-call the other side!!!!!!!
IE: The side that has the acceptance of the corporate mainstream media, has the luxury of avoiding debate and name-calling…
So what’s they key? Right or wrong, the key is getting YOUR side accepted by the CMSM.
The side that does NOT have this, even if they’re RIGHT, has the uphill climb.
Why can’t we just examine, if there is ANY country, call it “country X”, that has abnormal influence on U.S. policy, and FORGET about whether they’re Jewish or not???
Open the link, then write in the snow,
Cannonfire pisses on “Controlled Demolition” – the subject matter is now discredited and closed.
Open link to fresh snow and yellow ink.
Cui bono
What do the Statue of Liberty
and WTC Towers have in common?
Hey Mick! Cui indeed! Happy new year, dood!
czaragorn ditto guy