Refocusing

I've decided I've allowed myself to become distracted from my main focus.



This blog was begun with the idea of consumer issues and education foremost. My ambition is to be as much the "go to" blog (or "go sub" for programming purists) as Michelle Malkin is for immigration or La Shawn Barber for race relations or The Truth Laid Bear for what's going in in the blogosphere.



Like them, I'm going to continue to cover other issues, and blog on other subjects, I hope with at least a fraction of their competence and vision.



I am committed to the Raging RINOs, and the Life Liberty Property Alliance as well. I also broadly support the goals of several other groups and hope to be considered one of their ideological friends. These include but are not limited to the Axis of Naughty, Gunbloggers, Milbloggers, and the Wide Awakes.



I'm not going to back off on any issue. I'm self-employed in a profession where all I need is a miniscule proportion of that market in order to do quite well. As long as I keep myself in compliance and keep producing a minimum amount of business, I'll have a place to work. If one person becomes offended and refuses to do business with me, quite likely somebody else will seek me out for the same reason. If you don't like my opinion and want to change it, you're going to have to convince me I'm wrong, misdirected, misinformed or just don't understand the situation. You can't call my boss and get me fired. You can't embarass me enough to shut me up. And I learned a long time ago how to handle threats. I don't suffer intimidators gladly.



But in looking over my blog yesterday, out of fifteen posts on the main page, only two covered the issues this blog was founded to address. That needs to change now It doesn't have to be twelve or fourteen. If I can keep it at five or above, I'll be happy. And so, from now on I'm going to do ONE "Daily Links" post, and add to, amend, and update as the day goes on. Trackbacks will be something I limit to when I do some serious work on an issue (or when invited). If anyone has a link on a consumer issue, particularly big ticket items such as financial planning, insurance, mortgage, and real estate where there is a real financial penalty for not getting it right the first time, I want to be on top of it. Send it to "issues at (the domain name)". It's going to be at least one link to your blog if I use it. I am and always will be on the lookout for helpful submissions and I actively want cobloggers for areas I'm not qualified in. If anyone has suggestions for how I can better automate my search for issues on my topic before the blogosphere, PLEASE tell me, as I'm pretty decent with search engines but not so hot with other web resources, especially automatically updating ones. (I'm just learning to use Blogrolling!)