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Looking for someone to translate a book from German into English. It would probably be best if you were a native English speaker, but I am not sure if it is a necessity. The lump sum for the job will be quite a bit of money, in the five figure range.

I just put a PayPal Donate button on my contribute page. It was a bit complicated. I don’t think I could see my Mom putting one up, but my brother probably could. You need to know at least something about HTML, webpages and the like. Also the instructions are a bit confusing.
You know what that means, right? It means all you pikers are finally going to start kicking down!
PS. If any of you are worried about getting me rich, don’t worry. All these donations have been doing is paying my bills. A good donations month just means a month where I pay all my bills and cover some of my lesser expenses ($less than $150) versus what used to be a typical month where I didn’t pay all my bills and those lesser expenses were often covered by friends, girlfriends, etc.

The notorious Hindutvadi spammer Manny has just been banned. I have been wanting to ban him for a long time, but I needed to wait until I got a certain number of complaints about him. That is how it works here. The commenters basically decide who to ban and who not to ban.
Manny was a spammer, and spamming the blog is a violation of the Comments Policy. You cannot be a one-noter and endlessly spam the blog on your favorite subject. In other words, no matter what the subject was, butterflies or Icelandic literature or the weather in Timbuktu, Manny always jumped into the Comments and redirected to conversation away from something topical back onto his favorite subjects.
Manny was really making a lot of people mad so the site will be a lot better with him gone.
 
 

This person is a woman, a Hindu from India. She has vowed to destroy my blog and delete it 900 times if she has to. I just caught her trying to hack into the blog. She also set up a blog just to bash me and libel me.
Here is her post.
What else did you expect from a person that is crippled ( both physically and mentally), has no job, lives on welfare, hustles in the food stamps line, thinks of himself no less than Stephen Hawking (some likeness you see) and has 24 hours on hand for…?
I stumbled upon this blog just last night and he has banned me already, (thinking he could really ban me) and I’m just one step from taking his pathetic blog down, but I’m really interested in knowing what US citizens have to say about this parasite living (and hopefully breeding) in their society.
Okay, let’s do a poll. I can take this moron’s blog down in a heartbeat. I want to see a 3:2 majority in favor in replies to this comment. Reply with Yes or No. Should I take this moron’s blog down?
P.S: Robert, come on, start backing up your files! Oops, you’re an idiot; even that won’t help as I’d destroy your blog a 1000 times if needed, just thinking that I’m serving my nation. (See, I’ve used the same nickname and email so that it doesn’t get difficult for your diseased brain).

I just got too many requests to ban him and I have people who will no longer come to the site as long as he is present. He made a lot of good contributions, but he also antagonized many people and he fought with just about everyone. If you start getting a lot of people calling for you to be banned, your days might be numbered on this site.

Here.
It is called Occidentinvicta, whatever that means.
Focus appears to be on multiculturalism, mass immigration to the West and the superiority of Western culture.

Had a power surge that wrecked my Windows 2000 install, so I had to take it up to the shop to get Windows XP loaded back on. I was without a system for a few days there. Also the surge shifted Windows from G: partition over to F: partition. Not a good thing. I used to have a UPS, but the battery on it died and I never got another one.

There have been persistent calls to ban these two regular trolls, and I finally decided to take action. Last straw for Xera was derailing a post about incels into another one of his terminal race war threads by attacking Asian men for being weak, soft, wimpy, unattractive to women and having small dicks. He’s only said it 2000 times already!
There have been many calls to ban this guy, and that was the last straw.
I am getting tired of all the race-warring in the comments, but I am not going to ban on it unless people start complaining.
But getting rid of two of the worst trolls on the site should clean up the Comments a bit.

Look folks, you cannot come here and spam the blog with endless one-note posts. A lot of people do this, and I have a lot of tolerance for this, but this guy just went too far. In particular, you cannot make endless off-topic posts about your one-note theme. No matter what the subject of the post was, this guy somehow found a way to tie it into his obsession with the New Age Eastern religion he was pushing. You can’t do that. If the post isn’t about New Age Eastern religion, don’t make comments about New Age Eastern religion.
I also note that his endless spamming was starting to make a lot of the other posters pretty angry. I felt that he might have been driving off other commenters too. This is a problem with these off-topic, one-note spammers – they tend to drive off most of the other commenters and soon all you have left are trolls, one-noters and spammers of various types.
Most of you regulars are ok, so don’t worry about this.

Here.
I accidentally put my Blogging Notes up on the Net and published them. Formerly, they had been a draft. I am wondering if I should keep them up there. It is all supposed to be turned into posts at some time or another, but it is just that I am too lazy to do so.
One worry I had was that people would steal my stuff and make their own posts out of it and beat me to it so to speak. But no one ever steals my stuff anyway, so I am not sure this is a big worry. I may copyright it just in case.
So weigh in. Should I leave this up there or not?

Here is Dota’s bio on the page:

Dota is an Indian Muslim from the mercantile Bohra community. He was raised in India and Dubai but migrated to Canada in his early twenties where he also completed his undergraduate degree in Business Administration. He writes mostly about India and Islam by critiquing their value systems from a historical perspective. His economic views lean towards socialism whereas he leans right on social issues.
He passionately believes that Christianity is essential for maintaining a moral equilibrium in North American society whereas a strong white identity is required to maintain North America’s European character. He opposes multiculturalism and is a fierce critic of Israel and organized Jewry. He is a Canadian citizen and speaks English, Hindi/Urdu, and Gujarati.

A lot of you are probably happy about that, but I was putting this off for a long time and giving her one chance after another. Although she was a disruptive influence on here for quite some time, I can’t really ban on that. She was banned for hostile tone.
She was also derailing a lot of good threads with tangential stuff about her one note themes, emo and frivolity. She destroyed a lot of good threads with her obsessive and off-topic posting. Not that I ban on that, but it’s not so great.
Regular posters, please don’t worry and continue posting away. None of you are anywhere close to getting banned.

In the comments section, a commenter named Jake is trying to get me to ban an Indian nationalist named Jaipal. I told him that I go to great lengths not to ban Jaipal because I want to keep him on here. One of the ways I do that is by simply not engaging with Jaipal or not fighting with him.

Well then I’m curious then, why don’t you want to “fight” him? There were many other threads where you just banned Black commentators without them even attacking you or personally disagreeing with you one bit. Are there too many Indian nationalists that you have to handle on a daily basis that it gets tiring?

Wrong Jake! Are you Black? I have not banned any Black commenters who did not attack or personally disagree with me! I generally will never do that.
There are not so many Indian nationalists that I can’t deal with them all. Anyway, almost all of them get banned almost immediately. Jaipal has played his cards very well, and I compliment him for that. He’s a good contrary voice, and I am happy to keep him around.
Almost all commenters get banned for attacking me personally in a hostile manner. A few others get banned for things like hostile tone. Others get banned for constantly disagreeing with everything I say and being contrary, but that’s not common, and I give them a lot of slack. I let a lot of them ride on this ice for a while because at the end of the day, I want to ban as few people as possible.
Some commenters take a persistent contrary tone because that’s their agenda, but I don’t mind that so much. We had some Black nationalists on here, and we have Indian nationalists now. As I don’t want to ban them, I often just don’t engage them that much because I don’t want to set them off and get them banned.
A lot of other commenters I personally like a lot, and I deliberately don’t engage them when they disagree because I don’t want to get into a big tiff with them. I just sit back and let others take them on or just let it die.
There’s a real downside to banning too many commenters, and that’s that it makes people afraid to comment. It’s also shameful in that it makes me look bad if I ban too many people. And it’s also a bit painful to be banning people all the time because it’s such a hostile thing to do on my part. I don’t really feel very good about it, and it can make the site look bad.

We have some commenters on here who only comment in order to disagree with me. You really can’t do that on here. You can’t be “contrary.” You can’t comment on here only to disagree with everything I say. That’s not acceptable or permissible and it’s frankly a sign of hostility. I am letting it go for now, but you can’t keep on doing it.
You can disagree with me, but not with everything I say. You can’t make every single post only to disagree with me.

The Comments Policy has been updated. As stated in the policy:

No threatening commenters with physical violence; no threats of any sort. No attempts to violate the civil rights of other commenters.

We try to keep the policy as minimal as possible, and we don’t anticipate any problems of this kind. But we decided to make it a rule that it’s not okay for people to threaten each other on the site. That’s going over the line.
We don’t want you to worry about it, though. Just relax and keep commenting.

It only applies to economics.
You are not allowed to support or promote rightwing economics in any way, shape or form. In general, this means you can’t promote laissez-faire economics, Reaganomics, Milton Friedman, the Heritage Foundation, the Republican Party, the Libertarian Party, the Cato Foundation, the Tea Parties, etc.
Now that Obama seems to have thrown in his lot with some of this crowd, admittedly things are a lot more complicated.
You are only allowed to support and promote politicians or parties in the US which promote leftwing economics. You are however, allowed to promote or support any Democrat, even the neoliberal Obama and Clinton types. After all, they are part of the coalition. Unfortunately. You are also be allowed to promote No Logo and Third Way types like Michael Bloomberg. Unfortunately.
I basically want this comments section to look like Daily Kos or Democratic Underground at least on economics anyway. Over there, all Republican types are immediately banned.
Violators will probably be banned immediately.

I just received this comment on my site, signed by Micheal Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, with a link to his website and his purported email. Is this really him? Would a professional politician really use such language where he could be quoted on it? It’s either him or someone pretending to be him.

Mr. Lindsay,
My name is Michael Bloomberg, BloomBERG you fucktard. My friends call me Mike, but it is Mr. Bloomberg to you, piece of shit commie.
Further, with my hard earned $18 Billion, I could buy you into slavery and sell you to the gypsies you worthless prick.
So next time you call out America’s 4th most generous philanthropist on your pitiful site, try to get my name right.

This comment recently appeared in the comments section:

As the commentary above PROVES, Lafayette IS a Nazi – and Nazis should be KILLED! That is the only appropriate response from any genuine adherent of the left and supporter of human equality and freedom worldwide. Nazi fascist vermin such as Lafayette Sennacherib must NOT be allowed to preach the “socialism of fools” to divert the GENUINE left’s struggle with their attempts to incite murder and genocide as he preaches above.
Nazis are NOT human beings and they therefore have NO “human rights” – including the “right to life”. As the commentary above PROVES, Lafayette IS a Nazi – and Nazis should be KILLED! That is the only appropriate response from any genuine adherent of the left and supporter of human equality and freedom worldwide. It is my dearest and fondest hope that a genuine and well-armed anti-racist and anti-fascist will hunt down such “people” and give them a PERMANENT AND IRREVERSIBLE taste of their own medicine.

I know who this guy is. He used to stalk an old friend of mine named Wendy Campbell on Indymedia, and Wendy was terrified of him.
I think he is the same guy who used to come to the site periodically and leave various weird comments along the lines of saying, “Good job Robert! I agree! Kill the Jews!” Even when I was not advocating anything of the sort, of course. In other words, he’s trying to paint me as a Nazi and say he agreed with me. At the time, he was trying to paint the pro-Palestinian movement as Nazis and trying to get us to say, “Kill the Jews! Up the Palestinians!” or things along those lines.
He also threatened to kill me once too for “going easy on the evil kike scum” LOL.
He’s apparently a young male Jewish college student who is in New York City, upstate New York and Chicago at various times.
I’m banning him, and I’m going to amend the comments policy to not allow any more of these types of death threats or stalking behaviors.

Boy, RR sure didn’t last long, did he? Rightwingers never last long here anyway.
Reality Check is the Super Jew named Angela, formerly of the East Bloc. She got banned before, but then she got a new name and came back surreptitiously, and then got banned again. Reality Check has been over at Jacob Bauthumely’s blog, asking similarly snarky questions and making a nuisance out of herself, so I guess she just gets off on being unpleasant.
It was difficult of me to make these two decisions, and I worried about causing an uproar among readers, but I actually think most of you will be smiling or even jumping for joy. I get the feeling that neither of them is well-liked around here.
Please don’t let it inhibit the rest of you. These decisions are undertaken only after serious deliberation and we don’t like to do it, since it inhibits and frightens everyone else.

1. Saying, “America, love it or leave it,” or anything along those lines to the authors is now banned. It’s unfortunate I had to put this in, but the rightwingers started doing that like they always do. Do people do this “love it or leave it” crap in any other country?
2. Unfortunately, we are implementing our first ban on content not directed at authors. Persistently disruptive commenters who engage in endless personal feuds in the comment threads that contribute nothing of any value to the overall conversation will now be banned. This is unfortunate, but some recent antics on the Open Topic page have resulted in this. You can still fight, I suppose, especially if it’s funny like the wars fpy was having with Mort Goldman a while back. But we don’t encourage it.