Once again, we’re back at adamsweb.wordpress.com due to once again having to move servers. I would blog without having to deal with the Internet, but then that would be called writing on pieces of paper or the wall.

Look over in the left hand sidebar and you’ll see I upated my blogroll. You’ll see all active Idaho Conservative and Liberal blogs (that I’m aware of), Idaho and National media sources, Christian information, and a good old splattering of Misc. Essentially, everything that’s in my Blog Feed reader is now in the sidebar. In addition, tonight was spent going through a series of articles I wrote for WhereIStand.com on the best blogs and insuring that I had all the best blogs included.

One thing that stood out to me is how much blogging changes. I hadn’t checked some of the blogs on my b2evolution blog for years and I found most had gone dormant or been replaced. It was even the case with some of the best award nominated blogs from the Weblog Awards. I can’t count how many blogs that had been award nominated and going strong a mere 7 month ago and were now either dead or in two cases, have been replaced with blogs that aren’t worthy of the great URL they’ve acquired. We’ve really lasted a long time in the blogosphere and I’m pretty proud of that, going on three years and still going strong (thank the Lord.)

 With that, I want to say hi to a couple of blogs that have just been added to the blogroll. First, to Grassroots Idaho GOP welcome aboard. This blog is part of the effort to get real party primaries in place in Idaho and I’m 100% behind them. WhereIsJodi is the blog of Jodi Cowles, who I interviewed tonight for a Truth and Hope Podcast, coming up next week.

Blogging will be a little light tonight and tomorrow as I focus on the “unglamorous” side of blogging. (As much glamour as there is in blogging.) I’ll be doing things like sound editing, and making blog roll changes. But, I’m going to try and get some posts up that are future dated.

Someone wrote something harsh and defamatory and did something awful and I realized I should respond…And then I thought, no, I shouldn’t respond because the post was a poorly executed lie on a little read corner of Cyberspace, but I should respond to the general principles and their motives…

 But then I thought, wait who cares about their motives, maybe I should do something about general people and my general situation…Then after going to the ballgame I thought, “why do anything at all.” other than a brief post to explain in nebulous and confusing terms why I didn’t do a regular post today. And then I thought, “Now, there’s an idea…”

• Belated Congratulations to the Random Yak on his decision to homeschool Yak the Younger. He lives in California where to run a public school apparently requires some sort of a mental illness as Yak explained a year or so back, Education is Job #2. Also, Yak the Younger sounds like a good kid, who wants to be challenged, not dress up in pajamas for school.
• Kyle at One Red Paper Clip is back to trading. If you recall, he traded up from one red paper clip to a house. This trade is starting in Britain. Will he have his own Dukedom by the time it’s done?
• Dr. George Grant has details on kids in Nashville standing against porn (and fasting and praying too.)
• A Chubbuck, Idaho youth pastor was found not guilty of lewd conduct with a minor and sexual battery. The good news is that he still has his job. The only question is where does he go to get his reputation back?
• Finally, State Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID. 14) reads the riot act to Democrats on their hypocrisy on Idaho’s closed primaries:

I have been amused by Idaho Democrats running around decrying closed primaries when they hold closed caucuses to choose their presidential candidates. Yet, I have not seen a single Idaho Democrat criticize the party’s closed caucus system. Instead, Idaho Democratic Party spokesman Chuck Oxley and others either defend these closed caucuses or claim they are meaningless. As a Republican, I do not have a problem with the Democrats’ closed caucuses because I do not have a right, or desire, to influence their candidate selection process…

Just wait, though: If Idaho Democrats ever become competitive or dominant again, they will be demanding and suing the state for a closed primary like the Democrats did in California in the case of California Democratic Party v. Jones. In that case, the U.S. Supreme Court essentially found that open primaries are unconstitutional. The state of California, through the initiative process, had changed its closed primary system to a blanket primary system that allowed the voters to vote for either Republicans or Democrats in the primaries. The California Democratic Party (yes, the Democrats) sued California’s secretary of state because the party felt that its right of free association was being violated.

The state of California argued that the blanket primary system was valid and offered seven reasons why blanket primaries should be upheld. These reasons are very similar to the ones presented by Oxley and Sen. Stennett in their editorials for opposing closed primaries. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected all seven claims and found that the state of California cannot force “political parties to associate with those who do not share their beliefs.” In short, the U.S. Supreme Court made it clear that voters do not have the right to vote in a primary of a party to which they do not belong.

It is telling that Idaho Democrats, including Oxley and Stennett, want to have the right to influence Republican primary results because they cannot field strong candidates in all state races. A party primary is the process where members of a political party choose their strongest candidate. It should not be used to make up for your own party’s weaknesses.

Well said.

We’ve got everything here on the WordPress.com blog ready to go and upload over to the new Adam’s Blog at the old URL. Andrea has been doing some diligent testing and found an issue on our server. As of 6:57 A.M. they are looking into it. No resolution as of yet. We’ll keep you posted.

A frustrating evening, blogging wise that hit it’s depth when the computer needed to reboot and wouldn’t go past the red screen. Finally, got it booted up, but unfortunately, the blasted thing won’t post my podcast.

Thank God, I was able to fix the computer. Dust on the side panel is what shut it down. Unfortunately, some nights things won’t cooperate. This is one of those nights. At the same time, a problem with an error on my server looms over being able to get the blog transfer done tomorrow. It’s safe to say there won’t be a morning podcast because if I don’t have the previous evening’s podcast posted, there’s really not a point in trying to do aother.

As b2evolution is very hard to escape, I’m going to make this my sign off on b2evo and the current adamweb.us/blog. This way, Andrea can archive the site and transfer it to wordpress.com which should very easily and smoothly make for a transfer to my own WordPress blog, starting some time Thursday afternoon.

B2evolution despite it’s numerous flaws and holes for spam to creep in has provided a lot of fun over the years. Still, like all good things, this must come to an end.

So for now, adieu, best of luck to those who will continue to have the software.

My blog posts for Tuesday and Wednesday will appear .here and we relaunch on Thursday with WordPress.

Not Using an RSS Reader? You Ignorant Time-Waster!

Scott Adams of Dilbert Fame begins his blog entry:

I went from being a bad writer to a good writer after taking a one-day course in “business writing.” I couldn’t believe how simple it was. I’ll tell you the main tricks here so you don’t have to waste a day in class.

I’m curious enough to read the post, aren’t you?