Update on my 100th Twitter follower

The essay that mentioned a contest and my Twitter followers was published before I had 100 followers on Twitter.  Since then, I have been fortunate enough to have enough followers to push me over that milestone.  At the moment, I have 145 followers.

My 100^th Twitter follower is named Upstate Criminals.  This is the person who I have chosen to have early access to a special essay.

The essay wasn't finished when this Twitter follower became my 100^th follower, but I finished writing the essay yesterday.

The essay accuses President Obama of taking actions that harm his own country and mine.  Under United States law, he could be arrested and charged with a very serious crime called Treason.

Treason is usually defined as taking actions that "give aid and comfort" to one of this nation's enemies.  The essay names one country as being one of America's enemies (with documentation of that statement) and it says that Barak Obama, at the end of 2011, gave aid and comfort to that country.  I document those actions as well.

I began writing this essay more than a week ago.  I finished it yesterday, as I said.

Soon after I finished writing the essay, I logged onto Twitter and sent a message to Upstate Criminals, telling him that he should contact me.  As a condition of his early access to this essay, I also required that he be a subscriber to my "Conserving the Nation" blog.  That is the blog that will publish the essay.

I have not heard from that Twitter follower yet.  I can only guess why he has not contacted me so far.

I sent him a message, also visible to all my other followers, saying that if he did not contact me by Monday morning (July 29), I would publish the essay anyway, and he would lose the privilege of early access.

The essay took a long time to write.  It includes a video and a few photographs.  Most of my essays also have several links.  This essay also includes several links.

President Obama is a dangerous man to be in control of the White House and all of its' power.  It is my strong hope that many Americans will read that essay and be so outraged at his treasonous actions that they write to their representatives in Congress, urging them to begin the impeachment process that is in our Constitution.

Obama's popularity ratings are very low, but I am not satisfied, because he still has the power to order many U.S. Government agencies to take actions that hurt this country and its' citizens.  This is something that he has been doing ever since he was first sworn in, January 2009.

Obama can also order the U.S. military, as the civilian Commander-in-Chief, to take actions that harm them, even without the formal approval of a Congressional Declaration of War.  He has already used U.S. military forces against Libya when no declaration had been provided to him by the U.S. Congress.  That alone should have been grounds for impeaching him.

President Obama must be impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, Convicted by the U.S. Senate, and forced to remove himself from the power of the White House, power that he has abused ever since he became president in 2009.

Whether my new essay is published today or Monday, it will help in this very worthwhile goal.

Barak Obama, save my nation the embarassment of an impeachment.

RESIGN.

[August 10, 2013 update.   I tried many times to contact my 100th Twitter follower in order to give him the early access to that essay, but he never followed up on my repeated attempts.   I then contacted another follower of my Twitter account, someone who is also a member of the U.S. Congress, but he also didn't respond to my attempt to give him early access to the essay.  Finally, I published the essay called "Barak Obama is a traitor to his country"on Monday, July 29th]

Shout out to a fellow patriot.

I have an essay that lists about 40 reasons to impeach the President of the United States, Barak Hussein Obama.

For the benefit of my international readers, impeachment is a peaceful method of removing many elected officials in our government who have taken actions that violate our Constitution or who have performed their jobs exceptionally poorly in other ways.

Another person who writes a blog has published his own essay that lists reasons to impeach President Obama, which are called "Articles of Impeachment" in the U.S. Constitution.  His essay lists 115 reasons to impeach him, about four times as many reasons as I have.  Many of his 115 Articles have links to other articles, such as this one.

Those other articles serve the purpose of documenting the facts that he offers in support of the impeachment resolution that he and I both want the U.S. House of Representatives to produce and approve, followed by a historic vote in the U.S. Senate to convict Mr. Obama, which would result in him being forcibly but peacefully (I hope) removed from the White House.

Well done, Peter Paton, well done.

Readership Statistics

Total number of readers: 27,815 as of February 10, 2020.

This blog does not have as much readership as my other blogs, but I want my readers to know the names of the most popular essays so that they can find them with the help of these links, read them, and send links to these essays to their friends.

When I started this blog, I intended it to have shorter essays that could be read easily on "mobile devices", including personal digital assistants like the Blackberry, shown on the left, which was very popular at that time.  I tried to accomplish this goal by copying some of my most popular blog pages on my other blogs, while reducing the number of photos and videos that were on these pages.

As a blog author, I have access to some analytical information about my blogs.  That information includes the names of the operating systems that are being used to read these pages.  When I looked at the analytical information for this page, I discovered that "mobile devices" weren't being used by a majority of the readers of this blog, so I "rededicated" this blog to shorter, more "lightweight" essays.

I have a separate page on this blog that lists the 20 most popular essays on all six of my blogs combined, but this page is dedicated to the essays on this blog.

This update was made on February 10, 2020.  The last update was made on June 22, 2018.

The ten most well-read essays on this blog

Name of Essay	Readers
My 20 most popular essays	2,801
Two of my seven blogs have most of the essays, and
those two blogs also get most of the readership.
This blog page lists the 20 essays, on all of my 7 blogs,
that have the largest number of readers.  However,
this page also lists the four most well-read pages
on the other five blogs, including this one.
Boycott the National Football League on Veteran's Day	2,016
This page mentions Alejandro Villanueva, who was an
Army Ranger and until recently, a member of the
Pittsburgh Steelers.  Because he stood for the National
Anthem prior to a September 2017 game, when his
teammates were all in the locker room, the sales of
his football jersey skyrocketed.  I quoted one story
and linked to 16 other stories about this event.
My Twitter information	1,437
This page includes a statement of my standards for
retweeting messages, and it also includes a list of some
of the people who follow my Twitter account, including
members of Congress and past presidential candidates.
Voter identification prevents voter fraud	1,115
This essay compares voters in the United States with
voters in other countries, including India and Mexico,
that must show identification when they vote.  India
has over a billion people, yet their voters all have an
identification card, and Mexican voters also have them.
Now you know why college is so expensive	744
This blog page was inspired by a photo of a U.S. Senator
who is a hypocrite.  The photo, with the caption on it,
was spotted on my Twitter account.  I copied and pasted it
onto an empty blog page and added a short explanation.
Summary of the Sample Articles of Impeachment	643
This is a summary of another essay on another blog.
That essay is a long list of President Obama's impeachable
offenses, which is one of the most popular pages on any
of my blogs.  This essay includes a clickable link to that essay.
Boycott the National Football League - updates	553
This page mentions the N.F.L. Player's Association, the
2017 meeting attended by owners and the Commissioner,
Colin Kapernick,and various well-known people who agree
with the fans that players should stand for the Anthem.
The economics of the N.F.L. boycott	511
This page has information about the revenue of the
teams and the league.  It mentions sponsors who have
decided to stop sponsoring teams.  Colin Kapernick's
lawsuit is discussed.  I also include news stories about
half-empty football stadiums and slow sales at stores
that sell N.F.L.-licensed clothing.
Why I am a Republican	255
This page includes a YouTube video of a state legislator
named Elbert Guillory.  He is a State Senator in Louisiana.
He says why he switched from the Democrat Party.
His reasoning is hard to disagree with, partly because
he talks in a calm, quiet voice without strong emotion.
Seeing racism and sexism where it doesn't exist	432
This essay is based on my personal experience attending
a chess club at a public library many years ago.

Also worth reading on this blog

This gun saved lives. This page includes a 2013 news story about a woman who successfully defended herself and two small children when a man broke into her home.

Richard Nixon's second impeachment article. There are similarities to actions taken by President Obama.  There is a detailed explanation of those similarities in this page on another blog, that shows how Obama committed every one of the impeachable offenses that President Nixon did in his two abbreviated terms, which ended when he resigned as President in August 1974.


Why I am a Republican.  This page has been read 311 times as of February 10, 2020.

This page was written in June 2013.  At that time, a man named Elbert Guillory, a member of the Louisiana State Senate, had just switched from the Democrat Party to the Republican Party.  He recorded a video of himself stating his reasons why he made the switch.  Since then, he has retired from the Louisiana Senate, but he is now part of the executive team in the Louisiana Republican Party.

Race for Dummies

Starting in the late 1990s, a company published a series of popular books that helped people with limited skills in certain areas improve their skills by reading these "How To" books.  One sample book is shown on the left.  My essay, written in March 2015, explained the basic principles of social color-blindness that had been discussed in much more detail in the third essay I had ever written for any of my blogs, The End of Racism.

In its' most simple form, the concept of color-blindness is the natural result of an inconsistency in the concept of race.  If you believe in race, and if two people from two different races become the parents of a biological child together, then the child cannot be a member of either of its' parent's races because it shares the DNA of both parents.  The definition of those two races is instantly unusable as a way to define the race of the child.

Water Economics for Students, 328 readers as of February 10, 2020.

This page was written on July 26, 2016.  At that time, my essay "Water Economics" on my main blog was receiving thousands of readers daily, and from many different countries around the world.  I wrote this page for students in elementary schools and middle schools, so that they would understand how the scientific principles that they were learning in school could be applied to the problem of the drought in California.  This same concept, using science to solve a problem that affects a large economy, is the basic concept of the original 2012 blog page "Water Economics'.

This page uses many more graphics than my original 2012 page, meant for adult readers.  It uses some animated graphics, and it also uses colored text for everything but quotes of other people's words.  The page has a different feel, too.  It copies the style of some children's literature, which encourages them to take a "hands-on" approach to the task of learning the science concepts that give them the tools to understand the other ideas.  I even included two versions of a diagram that explained something called a Water Cycle.

Both diagrams show the same science principles.

A message for Kevin, 252 readers as of February 10, 2020.

This page was written in June 2015 when I saw a cartoon drawing about a soldier with an amputated leg inside of a public school classroom that included one student, named Kevin, who didn't want to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.  I added more information later, including some information about a Major General in the Army who had been killed in Afghanistan in 2014.  Many people were outraged because three high-ranking officials went to a funeral for Michael Brown, who had been killed by a police officer after robbing a convenience store in Ferguson, Missouri, yet no high-ranking people in Obama's White House attended the military funeral for an Army general.  I also added some photos of the funeral for some soldiers who served at Fort Hood, Texas, and who were murdered by a jihadi who was a psychiatrist at that base.

The ten countries that have sent the most visitors to this blog

These are the names and the numbers since I began writing this blog on December 10, 2012.

The names of these countries and their readership numbers have been verified by Google.  The number of readers from Brunei hasn't changed since the last update in June 2018, but that number is still high enough to qualify that country for this list.  Ireland only added two readers to this list since the last update.

Another piece of analytical information that I can see as a blog author is the number of readers during the past 30 days.  During the past 30 days up to the date of this update (February 10, 2020), there were 9 readers in Turkey, 5 readers in Argentina, 5 readers in Indonesia, and 5 readers in Mexico.

The June 2018 update of this page included 107 readers from Poland, but the number of readers from unknown countries (probably using virtual private networks) is now more than that number, so Poland is no longer on this list.
 

This part of this page will be updated whenever I update the list of the ten most popular essays.

Country	Visitors
United States	17,723
Russia	1,966
Germany	1,631
France	1,179
India	664
Ukraine	614
Canada	255
Brunei	236
Ireland	188
"unknown region"	154

Boycott Jay-Z. Don't buy any of his products!

why

He said "the N-word" (three times) in "H.O.V.A." Note: He also says n***as and b****. Other web sites with the same lyrics Rap Genius   E-Lyrics Song Meanings  Metro Lyrics He said "the N-word" in "Can I get a ..." Note: He also says s***, b****es, n***as, and f***ed. Other web sites with the same lyrics Sing 365  Metro Lyrics Let's sing it  Song Lyrics

Justice for Paula !!

He said "the N-word" in "99 Problems".

He also says s***, b**** (four times in the verses and twice more in each chorus), a**, and a**h***.  The video on the right includes all of the words that other people have been criticized for saying.

Other web sites with the same lyrics

Metro Lyrics  A-Z Lyrics  Rap Genius  Lyrics Mode

Oh by the way, he said G*dd***it, s*** (twice), bulls***, f*** (twice), and f***ing in Open Letter. Other web sites with the same lyrics A-Z Lyrics Direct Lyrics Rap Genius Lyrics Freak Lyrics 007

Paula Deen deserves justice. If you're going to boycott her for saying "the N-word" once, then boycott Jay-Z too, because he said it many times.

If you're willing to buy his music and willing to hear him say that word two or three times in one piece of rap music, knowing that he has other rap "songs" with the same word in them, knowing that he says other swear words in those other songs, and knowing that he has never apologized for anything that he has said, then buy her brand-name products, too.

She only said the word once.

Paula Deen products (clickable link)



10/05/14 update.  Paula is expected to launch a new digital television network.  Link to the June 11, 2014 announcement in the lifestyle section of Businessweek.

04/07/18 update. This is a Jesse Lee Peterson broadcast about Jay-Z. It was uploaded on April 7, 2018. It includes a clip from an interview Jay-Z had with David Letterman, broadcast on NetFlix. In this interview, he said,starting at 1 minute, 19 seconds, "We have to talk about why white men are so privileged in this country."

A Forbes Magazine article about Jay-Z.  He is #1 on the Forbes list of the wealthiest Hi-p-Hop artists, and Forbes says that he is worth $900 million.

Billboard says the same thing.  Jay-Z is the wealthiest Hip-Hop artist of 2018.

Justice for George Zimmerman

I have some questions to ask you:

1. Would you want to be arrested for a crime if the police didn't talk to anyone who witnessed the crime?


2. Would you want to be
   
   • arrested and jailed by the police,
   • convicted by a jury,
   • and sentenced by a judge,
   when there wasn't any hard evidence of a crime?
   


3. Would YOU want to be convicted by a jury and put in jail by a judge that didn't look at any physical evidence (injuries on both bodies, blood on the sidewalk, blood on clothes, gunpowder residue, etc.)?


4. In order for anyone (I said anyone) to be convicted of a crime, certain things must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
   
   In this case, the evidence hasn't shown that George should be convicted of second-degree murder.
   
   Everybody who is accused of a crime should be considered innocent until a jury decides that he is guilty.
   
   Everybody.
   
   Even you.
   
   If you would not want to be convicted and sentenced when the police have a small amount of evidence that you did the crime, why should he be convicted on such a small amount of evidence that he did the crime?

One of the hard facts of life

Whether you like it or not, the State of Florida has a "Stand your Ground" law.

It allows anyone (including George Zimmerman) to defend himself against an attack under certain circumstances.

It even allows anyone (including George Zimmerman) to use deadly force under certain circumstances.

This law was in effect on the day that Mr. Martin died.

Unless you want to be treated the way that you want to treat George, then let the jury decide whether he is guilty or not based on the evidence that  is shown to the jury.  This may be different than statements made on television by people who aren't on the jury and who aren't prosecutors in this court case.

Remember this?

It's in the Bible.

"Do unto others as you would have others do unto you."


These words are on the top of the front of the building where the United States Supreme Court does business:

Equal justice under law.

In other words, let the jury decide the case, and let them look at the evidence.

Only at the evidence.  The judge and the jury should ignore the color of George's skin.

If you want police, judges, and juries to ignore your skin color if and when you get arrested for a crime that you didn't commit, then police, judges, and juries should also ignore George's skin color.

By the way, I have been ignoring skin color for decades.

The previous sentence has a link to an essay about racism that I published more than a year ago.  It shows why everybody should ignore skin color every day.

George is now asking for a different kind of justice

This section was added on December 4, 2019.

These are the first paragraphs of a December 4, 2019 story in the Sun-Sentinel, which is published in Florida.  All of these links were included in their story.

George Zimmerman, the man acquitted of killing unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin in 2012, is now suing the boy’s family, their attorneys and the prosecutors for damages in excess of $100 million.

Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch volunteer, has said he was defending himself while being attacked when he shot and killed Martin, 17, in a gated community in the central Florida city of Sanford in February 2012.

Martin, who lived in Miami Gardens, was visiting his father at the time.

Zimmerman’s trial and acquittal sparked protests and a national debate about race relations.  The Justice Department later decided not to bring a civil rights case against Zimmerman.

The lawsuit alleges “malicious prosecution” by prosecutors, defamation by both Martin’s defense attorney and a book publishing company, and “civil conspiracy” by Martin’s family and lawyer “to put on a false witness with a made-to-order false storyline to try to fraudulently create probable cause to” get a conviction.

This story was linked in a story, published the same day, in The Hill.