Unfortunately, real life does get in the way of passion, so allow me this one excuse as to why I have not blogged on Scoop This in the past few days. I have had several physical ailments and a bit of a flu bug, but thankfully the mental fatigue is starting to subside. Plus, I have had some drama that needed to be quelled. Hopefully, everything will go as planned for the rest of month.

After a few hours of rest, I hope to blog later on today. I have a lot of catching up to do.

Thank you for reading Scoop This, and thank you for your loyalty.

I am always looking for ways to allow people to interact more with ScoopThis. One way that I believe will help us spread the word about this blog and help blogger’s receive more traffic to their blog is a link exchange program.

The way it would work is as follows:

• Readers would create a image ad for their blog (Blogger.com, MySpace, etc.) (200×200 only)
• Your ad would be placed in a rotation in the right column directly below the categories menu
• In exchange, an ad from ScoopThis (200×200) would be placed on your blog or website.
• There is no requirement that your blog be self-hosted (like ScoopThis). Your link could be to your personal MySpace or Facebook page.  All we ask is for an image ad linking back to ScoopThis be provided on your site.

If anyone is interested in helping us with obtaining new readers as well as sending some of our traffic your way, please Contact Us.  Be sure to select Ricky Minton as the receipiant.

This project is in the early stages.  I would like to gauge participation before putting forth much of an effort in this project!

We’ve made it a bit easier to send information to ScoopThis.  Click on the Contact Us button above, and fill out the simple form.

That isn’t new, but now you can send attachments up to a 2 MB limit.  If it will be larger than 2MB, send an email and let us know what you are sending and we’ll reply with the correct email address to send it to us.

I will be back by Monday with new blogs. I have had to take a couple of days off for my birthday and my sister’s birthday, as well as other family and friend commitments.

Thanks to all of our readers for their loyalty. Ricky has been working real hard to battle the spam issue so our readers can post comments in peace.

Again, thank you for your understanding!

Register to comment on ScoopThis.Org

SPAM has become a serious problem on the site.  If not in comments, then registering on a daily basis.  When someone registers as DrWombaofKenya or RxViagra, I know we have a problem on our hands.

To make it a bit more difficult for the spam comments, I am requiring that anyone that does want to post a comment, be registered and logged in to do so.
If you would rather not login to the site, you will have to wait until I am able to install some type of CAPTCHA feature for comments and registration or, simply register for an account.

In addition, due to increased traffic to this site, we were notified by our webhost that we were exceeding our space on this server.  After speaking with them, I think we may be able to figure something out to accomodate ScoopThis, although nothing is certain.  Until an agreement is reached, we were moved to a “transition server” which has some limitations as comapred to our previous server.  That being said, if you run across a feature that doesn’t work correctly or something seems not right, it may be part of that server which, according to the webhost, may cause a few problems.

Thanks.

It is time for Scoop This to read some of our reader email.

Mr. Christensen from Ohio writes:

During the third and final debate Senator Obama made one of the scariest statements I have heard during this campaign. On the question of appointment of judges to the Supreme Court, Senator Obama said, “So this is going to be an important issue. I will look for those judges who have an outstanding judicial record, who have the intellect, and who hopefully have a sense of what real-world folks are going through.”

This is an incredible statement! The Constitution of the United States is a ‘Sacred, Living Document.” It is not subject to the whims and fancies of activist judges. It is also not to be interpreted in the light of the circumstances of what real-world folks are going through.

The Constitution says what it says. It is a document unique in the history of human civilization. To engage in the extremist activism proposed by Senator Obama, would open the door to a Despotism not seen since the Bolshevik rise to power in Russia and the incredible and almost inexplicable rise to power of the Nazi’s in Germany. They promised change and upon seizing power set about imprisoning and eliminating the very people who helped them gain power.

The presidential oath does not contain the words “Preserve, Protect and Defend the Constitution of the United States of America” without reason. A President Obama mouthing those words would be frightening, for it is clear from his words that he would not be inclined to do so.

Scoop This has highlighted commercial ads from the Judicial Confirmation Network. The ads point out that John McCain will appoint strict constitutional and conservative judges to the Supreme Court, and argue that Barack Obama will appoint activist judges that will make it a point to advance liberalism long after Obama has disappeared from national politics.

Conservatives, judicial appointments are crucial in this year’s election. Sitting out of this election because John McCain is not as conservative as everyone would like him to be is just silly. More than that, it is irresponsible and dangerous to not vote.

Or, if you would like, think of your McCain / Palin 2008 vote as a vote for the Palin / Jindal 2012 ticket.

Thank you for your email, Mr. Christensen.

This will be a new feature on Scoop This. We will be featuring email from the members of our society that espouse the most peace and love. I received two emails today from readers who want to express their profound and well-thought opinions of the writers at Scoop This.

Your Name: your a dumb fuck
Email:
Website: http://
To: Contact Carlos C.
Subject: General Comments

Message:
you guys are a bunch of dumb fucks

Thanks, we know. Yet, the public cannot get enough of us, and our blog numbers prove it!

Next.

Your Name: milidude
Email:
Website: armyofone.com
To: Contact Carlos C.
Subject: Other

Message:
carlos: you seem to be a hypocrite and a man posessing a forked(fucked) tongue since you have indeed sanctioned my comment from your pablum blog, as well as banned me too, so much for telling the truth. i stand by my words-i fought for this country and sacrificed my blood/sweat/tears to give pendeho/pendejo like you the opp to spread your zionist anti-american propoganda.

and to you kelsey: remove that ENEMY flag which is before the american on your myspace page or you will be considered an enemy combatant(terrorist).OVER HERE WE READ LEFT TO RIGHT NOT RIGHT TO LEFT BUT WE ALL KNOW THIS WAS NOT AN INNOCENT MISTAKE BUT WAS DONE WITH PURPOSE TO SUPPLANT THE SUPERIORITY OF THE SYMBOL OF THE AMERICAN FLAG WITH YOUR LUCIFERIAN SYMBOL. just as the blacks cry foul whenever anyone uses there jargon to label them(nigger) zionist pigs like kelsey hide behind the bleeding hearts that still feel sorry for the jew, when you are a primary infection in this country/ and the one who promulgated the falsicaust against the tru sephardic jew(whom i respect) which are not frauds as you ashkanazi jews are.. if you like the hexagram flag of hellsrael so much then get the fuck out of my country and go back to yours.

i warn you both: dont ever tell me a veteran or any other veteran of this country what we can and cant do, unless you are ready to defend yourselves with hand to hand combat. I have been on the front lines, you are not worthy to be considered a link in the chain of liberty which collectively allows dickheads such as you both to spread your bullshit around to dumbed down and unsuspecting goyim. if you really want to make a difference, then tell the truth about issues, and make yourself available to people thru direct emails.

most important : hypocracy is for nothing more than a communist prooganda tool meant to further hide the truth about an issue, which you carlos have executed repeatedly in your pablum postings. YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT I MIGHT APPEAL TO YOUR COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE, BUT THAT TAKES BRAINS OF WHICH YOU BOTH LACK, SO HERE IS WHAT YOU CAN UNDERSTAND: GO FUCK YOURSELVES, SINGULAR AND COLLECTIVELY. U BAN ME FROM YOUR BLOG, I BAN YOU FROM MY COUNTRY-GET THE FUCK OUT.

Well, I never banned Milidude. Perhaps I might have removed one of his posts if he was race baiting, which he obviously does in his email. This will be the first and last email I will feature from Milidude, especially since his email is full of racist diatribe.

Also, I have never banned any war veterans from posting on Scoop This. We honor war veterans and we thank them on this website. Scoop This has received comments from war veterans thanking us for this website and exposing the issues.

Keep the hatemail coming!

First, Sunday’s numbers: Another record day!

553 Absolute Unique Visitors, 605 Total Visitors, and 934 Page Views.

And last month’s (August) numbers:

7,079 Absolute Unique Visitors, 8,767 Total Visitors, and 14,653 Page Views.

Readers are spending over 2 minutes reading our stories. We have 200 loyal readers who visit our site at least 50 times a month.

Thank you so much for the support! And thank you to all the blogs and media outlets that link to our stories!

Scoop This was relaunched in the middle of July, and for being a new, conservative news / opinion website, these are great numbers!

I would also like to thank Ricky and Kelsey for their contributions to ScoopThis.Org.

UPDATE 1: Yesterday’s numbers: Still setting records!

779 Absolute Unique Visitors

844 Total Visitors

1,228 Page Views.

Again, thank you for the support!