House Keeping

About once a month we sit down and clean up the PA Poliblogroll, looking for stagnant blogs and broken links.

We also check out the blogrolls of those on our list, looking for additional PA Poliblogs to add.

In order to keep the list current, we have a loose rule of thumb -- if there hasn't been a post in a month or so, we delete it. If I can, I try to leave a comment on the blog, asking them to let me know when they reactivate so that we can put them on the list.

If your blog, or one of your favorites, seems to have been removed from the 'roll in error, PLEASE, let me know so that we can get it back on the list. Sometimes we had a bad URL, or the blog moved, or sometimes I just screw up. So don't be shy. Our goal is to keep the ABFS Poliblogroll the most complete list of active Pennsylvania Poliblogs going.

Also, a bit of an apology for those of you who came to us by way of Lefty Blogs over the weekend. In looking over our first year of posting, we also cleaned up some of the tags on the older posts. Lefty Blogs dutifully then read the newly-tagged posts as "new". So, in case you were wondering, no, Pennsylvania is NOT having another Senate race this year.

(Image Credit: "Sweeping Up A Storm", Samone Turnbull)

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New PA Poliblogs

Added about a dozen or so Pennsylvania poliblogs to the good old PA PoliblogRoll. Some new, some have been around a while, just hiding from us. Wasn't organized enough to keep track of them, so you'll have to find them for yourself. Lots of interesting work being done in the Commonwealth on all sides of the aisle.

NOTE:Please update to the NEW URL NOW:

www.abigfatslob.com

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The Blogroll

I've cleaned up the PA Poliblog roll. Weeded out those on "hiatus". If your PA Poliblog isn't on the list, let me know. I tried to leave comments or send emails to those that were deleted, asking them to let me know if/when they reactivate. But, some of you have turned off comments and don't list an email.

I never ask anyone that I put on my blogroll to reciprocate -- I figure that if they want to, fine, if not, so be it.

I've only asked two bloggers to put me on their blogrolls -- one because THEY asked readers to submit their blogs, the other because I am a big fan, fellow traveller, and we seem to overlap coverages. Both turned me down -- the first because they were fronting for a candidate I was bashing and they were too weak to take the hits. The other gave me an explanation that didn't really fit the facts, but that was their right and I just slunk away.

So, my rejection rate is about the same as it was in high school . . . . Having rejection issues, I don't ask. I'd say at least 75% of the blogs I keep on the roll don't list me. I'd love it if they did . . . . But the PA blogroll is intended to be a resource, not an endorsement. With one exception (the spineless blog), every PA poliblog I have come across is on the list. So I don't really see it as a quid pro quo thing.

Should I ask? Do you? Do you expect reciprocation?

NOTE:

WE ARE MOVING!!! For now, the old Blogger address will bring you to the new location -- but that can change at any time. Please update your Blogroll, Links, and Bookmarks NOW:

www.abigfatslob.com

Click Here to Blogroll A Big Fat Slob!

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Worth Reading Every Day

From The Carbolic Smoke Ball this week:

Today:

REPORT: JETBLUE IS OWNED AND OPERATED BY PENNDOT

HARRISBURG – The Harrisburg Patriot-News reported today that Federal Aviation Administration filings reveal JetBlue Airlines is actually owned and operated by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. David Neeleman, who is listed as JetBlue’s CEO, is actually a low-level staffer in PennDOT’s northeastern highways division.

Both PennDOT and JetBlue claimed they were caught off-guard by the February 14 storm, and both blamed poor communications for the transportation woes. JetBlue hopes to be back in full operation on February 21; PennDOT hopes to have made at least one pass on its roads by that same date....(more)

Tuesday:

BUSH PERPLEXED WHEN ASKED IF HE EVER THINKS ABOUT HIS LEGACY

PREZ CONFIDES IN AIDE: "I DON'T EVEN OWN A SUBARU"

NOTE:

WE ARE MOVING!!! For now, the old Blogger address will bring you to the new location -- but that can change at any time. Please update your Blogroll, Links, and Bookmarks NOW:

www.abigfatslob.com

Click Here to Blogroll A Big Fat Slob!

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Calling PA Political Blogs

The ABFS Blogroll has recently expanded -- I shouldn't be the only thing around here growing -- and we'd like to know if we are missing anyone.

If you are (or know of) a blogger, located in Pennsylvania, and posting mainly about politics (of any kind, Local, State, National, International, or Interstellar) (right, left, or confused), E-mail me so that we can get the blog included on the list.

The ABFS Pennsylvania Political Blogroll is the most complete, current list of active Pennsylvania political blogs anywhere, and we'd like to keep it that way.

ABFS

NOTE:

WE ARE MOVING!!! For now, the old Blogger address will bring you to the new location -- but that can change at any time. Please update your Blogroll, Links, and Bookmarks NOW:

www.abigfatslob.com

Click Here to Blogroll A Big Fat Slob!

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Hi Disney!!!!

An amusing follow-up to a couple of stories story about Disney vs. the Blogger, we did early this month.

From Kiss Off KSFO:

I know I said I wasn't going to blog regular, and I still mean it. But I couldn't resist a shout out to my friends at Disney who have been looking over my little corner of the blogosphere of late. Here's the info on their latest visit. Gotta think that they will eventually get tired of tracking down all of the negative publicity for the latest stupid thing said by their KSFO hosts . . . . :

proxy-ce5.disney.com (Disney Worldwide Services Inc)

California, Burbank, United States,

Date	Time	WebPage
January 25th 2007	12:33:47	kissoffksfo.blogspot.com/2007/01/bloggers-fighting-back.html www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&q=lee rodgers testicle source:comment__subscription_&sa=N&tab=nw

"So, dear, how was your day at work?"
"Great, mom, I spent the day using 'the google' to searching for testicles."

Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho . . . . .

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KSFO Vid

Posted at Kiss Off KSFO:



Gee, aren't those Disney broadcasters clever, witty and cute?

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Taking on the Big Rat

From Kiss Off KSFO:

KSFO is a wingnut station, the hosts of which are rabid supporters of torture and hate speech of every kind imaginable. The station of part of the Disney/ABC family of stations, and relies heavily on that connection in its marketing to advertisers.

Some time ago, blogger Spocko's Brain began a campaign to alert advertisers to the nature of the product with which they were associating their merchandise and services. In doing so, he made use (fair use, I would say) of actual audio clips demonstrating the disgusting nature of the "free speech" indulged by these Disney Empire employees.

Spocko's Brain got the attention of Disney's hired guns when the information campaign began to have an effect on KSFO advertisers -- in December VISA pulled its advertising as a result of the information they received from Spocko's Brain.

One thing led to another and the Disney Empire lawyers leaned on Spocko's Brain's internet provider to pull the plug on the blog.

Online Blogintegrity hosted Spocko after the blog was silenced, and then Spocko's Brain itself re-appeared, broadcasting from an undiclosed location, no doubt.

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Another Blogger Hanging it Up

After posting only irregularly since the midterms, Next Direction has announced an hiatus of indeterminate termination from blogging. His (the blogger known as Next Direction declares himself as "a regular guy from Pennsylvania") voice will be missed. N.D. and I disagreed on the Democratic primary, but we agreed on the need for a new direction. I made N.D. one of my routine daily stops and will miss it.

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Looking for a Few Good Blogs

The folks at DKos are looking for a few good blogs deserving of more recognition. Go help them out.

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15,000 Links and Call it a Day

Billmon, after taking a month off, gave us a few more gems over the last week and then . . . well it looks like it's time to say "Good Night, Gracie".

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