The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns

I have been blogging since 2004 on and off at Bloggers, Wordpress, my previously esteemed blog, "Freedom Watch," and now of course here on The HILL Chronicles. I have watched-or in this case, read the need for our voices and opinions to be heard.

There is a consensus amongst bloggers that if I comment on your site you should comment at mine. Of course, this is a courtesy. But who decided that this was how a blogger or writer was deemed worthy of anyone's so precious opinion?

Perhaps I am not the average blogger. I don't blog to rant and just voice my opinion, which can become boring at times. I write for the love of writing and to bring you the news with my views skewed into it all.

I am allowed. I am also allowed to say I think it sucks when fellow bloggers tell you that if you want comments you must comment on other sites. Really? Michelle Malkin or even La Shawn Barber never comment at sites yet they receive plenty of comments. No one would dare say this to them or write them an email inferring such.

I know what you will say, but you are not a Michelle Malkin or a La Shawn Barber. Tu Che. But I do have a following, a readership, commenter's, and was deemed by Pajamas Media credible and professional. Therefore, I believe that gives me the experiential expertise to write about this very subject.

I get that some of you will call this post snobby, arrogant, and self-righteous. I'll take my chances because I really don't care - it is only the opinion of some, not all.

You either acquire a comment following or you don't. That is how it is in blogging. But what blogging is about is getting the news out there without the media bias. What blogging is about is writing what is important to us. It is about being responsible with what and how we write for our readership. It is about being responsible. It is not about if you receive comments to every damn article you write. If you do great! If you do not, so what! Who the hell cares but you, maybe. An even bigger maybe is that you are the problem.

If the only reason people comment here on this blog is so I will comment on theirs - think about how school yardish that is. How petty it sounds. But many believe that and do this. Most bloggers do not care what other bloggers write about - unless it can in some way enhance their blog and hike up their stats. That is the bottom line ad least amongst the political bloggers. The minute one of these bloggers perceives you are getting hits and maybe - just maybe - you might appear to be doing better than they are - they sabotage you either in word or deed. I know. I have been on the receiving end and it stops here - now.

I really do not have the time anymore to read others blogs everyday, though I really try to. I also read many books, magazine articles, newspaper articles, listen to a lot of cable news and online news, and then there is work and my family. So I cannot do it all.

To those of you that have sent me nasty emails whining about how you thought I was your friend and how could I possibly not be commenting at your blogs as often anymore - opps, I have no time for people like you - anymore.

To those sweet dear readers out there that have understood - I truly do appreciate it. But I do not believe my commenting on others sites or not should affect people commenting on my site. Should it, then it was never genuine. It was like that school yard nonsense--na, na, na, na, na. Is this really what it all comes down to? I have no time for it and this post is to inform those school kids to get off it. I do not need you and or your comments. Move on. This site is for mature adults. Period.

I am someone working hard to make a difference not play kid games. If some of you somehow mistook that - it is on you - you obviously have never really read my blog or you would know what this blog is about.

The way we are in our personal non-cyber life sometimes bleeds into who we are in the cyber world. That my friends is the real "social handicap."