Milestones

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Yesterday I was hoping to catch SDA’s 6,666,666th visitor, but things got busy around here and I missed it.
Then this morning, I realized a second milestone had also passed – our 200,000th comment! As best as I can determine, the honor goes to DrD – and it’s a pretty good one;

As an armchair economist it’s always amusing to hear people ranting on about “Big Oil” presumably vs those “mom and pop” offshore drilling and tar sand upgrader projects we all reminesce about. Since the tar sands belong to “the people” perhaps a compromise can be reached whereby for every 100lbs of tar sand mined by “Big Oil” a 100 lb bag of tar sand can be shipped to the home of every Canadian who wants one to do with as they please. As for being “exploited” by “Big Oil”, my brother, who works in the oil patch has in turn “exploited” “Big Oil” over the years to the tune of a two storey house, maintenance for a wife, four children and several dogs, cats and hamsters, cars, minivans, vacations and a pension. Numerous others have done the same. Given a choice between the exploitation and the bags of tar sand delivered to the basement, I as a low tax paying Albertan will take the exploitation thank you very much. The fastest way to kill the economy out here will be to morph overnight into another tin pot, business unfriendly jurisdiction in which contracts and government business agreements are worth less than the toilette paper in the washrooms. That’s not to say it won’t happen. I saw it before with the NEP. Only this time, I’ve got a wad of cash to clean up on some cheap foreclosed houses.

Thanks to everyone for your support.

45 Replies to “Milestones”

  1. 6,666,666
    That’s a lot beasts, get the crucifixes and hurry.
    Congrats Kate, you sure earn it.

  2. 6,666,666
    Wouldn’t it be a hoot if it was my post addressed to SDA sheeple rather than some altruist essayist claiming that critical thinking is the be all and end all to winning a debate.
    Anyways, congratulations Kate, your intelligence, wit, creativity and tenacity has created something to be very proud of.

  7. 6 is, Biblically, the number that refers to man. 666 refers to a particular man.
    To paraphrase Paul in Acts 17:22, many are too superstitious.

  9. 6,666,666

    “That’s a lot beasts, get the crucifixes and hurry.”

    Of course the Buddhists don’t see things in a good/evil paradigm, and have karma instead of heaven and hell. That’s why they whore their children and are mean to people with leprosy.
    It’s more of an unenlightened/enlightened thing to them, and is personified along a “beast” vs. “Buddha” spectrum. Actually, the original Sanskrit translates better as “skilled vs. unskilled”.
    Do Kate’s 6,666,666 hits comprise of beasts? Unskilled and unenlightened? Nah.
    Congratulations Kate.

  12. Congrats, Kate. Too bad certain bigots on this blog will use any opportunity to try and ruin an excellent forum. Yes, I’m looking at you, Andrew.

  13. Congrats on the numbers to your blog!! Re: Big oil, big money etc. We need to get rid of the term “oil,” and use “kilowatts.” The word “oil” conjures thoughts of a thick, gooey liquid that sticks to your Carhart coveralls or your garage floor. A liquid that spews smoke into the atmosphere when ignited, and makes Calgary oil men greedy and rich.
    One US gallon of heavy diesel equals 40 Kilowatt hours. I don’t know what a gallon of crude works out to, but a metric tonne of Fort McMurry crude works out to approx. 11,700 Kilowatt hours of energy. For you English chaps, One horsepower hour=.75 Kilowatt hours.
    Kilowatts can always be re-converted back to any other form or source of energy.
    A lot of the negative attitude towards oil companies is generated by the CBC and Radio-Canada. Have you ever noticed how they always use film footage of the Fort Mac refineries that was shot in sub zero weather. In reality, what you see going up into the atmosphere is water vapour. The film does however tickle the fanny of the “Suzukian Cult.”
    They (CBC-R-Canada) do the same when they film the power stations at Estevan and Coronach. In sub-zero weather, you can see the stack on the power station at Coronach from 60 miles away. On a warm day, no visible smoke is emmitted.

  14. Speaking of 666 many peoples have various versions of the proto-Indo-European “Mara”, from Scandinavia to the Indian Subcontinent. He/she is literally the oldest conman in the book:

    In Buddhism, Mara is the demon who tempted Gautama Buddha by trying to seduce him with the vision of beautiful women who, in various legends, are often said to be his daughters. In Buddhist cosmology, Mara personifies unskillfulness, the “death” of the spiritual life. He is a tempter, distracting humans from practicing the spiritual life by making the mundane alluring or the negative seem positive.

    The early Buddhists, however, rather than seeing Mara as a demonic, virtually all-powerful Lord of Evil, regarded him as more of a nuisance.Many episodes concerning his interactions with the Buddha have a decidedly humorous air to them.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara_%28demon%29

  17. High Fives, Kate! 🙂
    (And if some of us are going to go on about 666 and all that, how about the frequently used Biblical prophetic phrase “the abomination that produces desolation”? Personally, I think that could well apply to Western Neo-Liberalism”.)

  20. My computer screen just turned beet red to match my cheeks and ears. Congrats Kate on the fine web site. As I’ve said before, your site has given many of us the confidence to speak out in the face of the soft, and not-so-soft intellectual terrorism of political correctness, not only on-line but in real life. Knowing we’re not alone the resistance is flourishing. Keep up the great work.

  21. Kate Congratulations and thank-you. The milestone comment, by DrD is a fine hallmark comment; your website attracts people like DrD who entertain, educate and challenge your readers. Sda is a ‘template’ for what msm might be able to accomplish someday if they could hire someone like you!

  22. Wow, amazing to see actual congratulations from two leftist trolls and one provocateur.
    You are doing a great job. That’s why I stop by several times a day.

  24. Congrats Kate. You earned it! You post witty,snide,sly,humourous,challenging,and provocative subjects. That’s why I read you more than any MSM. Even the lefties,if they thought about it,must admit you inspire critical thinking,something sorely missing in this country of sheeple.

  25. congrats kate on another milestone reached, Where i live in ontario(grey/bruce) you are getting talked about more & more. At one time it was me saying to my freinds “did you read that such & such topic on SDA today” Now it is them saying it to me.

  26. Is it coincidental that I read “NEP” as “New Economic Program”, ie, the restoration of a partial market economy in the rural areas of the USSR in the early 20s before the First Five Year Plan?
    Yeah, probably.

  28. Those are interesting stats. I had actually thought this place was more popular. I’ve posted on an American conservative message board for some time and in the course of three years (since it started) they had about 100,000 posts, which could be considered the equivalent of “comments” on here. People would come and go, but there probably hasn’t been more than 15 regular members at any given time. All in all the place feels pretty small and quaint.
    The visits category isn’t all that important. Often a visit can be tabulated by the same IP more than once in a day, sometimes with every page click, depending how it is set up.
    So if I get this straight then, SDA has been around for a comparable amount of time as this small little conservative message board I use and has only twice as many comments? If that translates into users then that may equal 30 regulars in any given period. But let’s be really generous and say that SDA has 60 regulars who leave comments, still not groundbreaking in any sense. Hell we’ll even compensate for the differences in population between each country and say that SDA has the equivalent of 600 regulars in the states, even though SDA isn’t totally exclusive to Canadian readers where as the American board I post on, virtually is. (Their traffic logs show very little Canadian access.)
    I had thought this place was somewhat more pervasive in terms of its reach and impact.

  30. Kate, well done! Many thanks for this oasis of reality, sanity, common sense, and debate in our increasingly synthetic culture, inhabited more and more by self-referential, uninformed clones.
    SDA’s a breath of fresh air and somewhat of a sanctuary–as in safe place–for those who haven’t caved to the politically correct “living death” that, bit by bigger bit, is smothering our freedoms and our souls. (Emblematic post DrD: a most worthy two hundred thousandth message!)
    Brava, Kate, and bless you!

  31. We used to have a neighbor that would come over and pay us a back handed compliment every time. I remember once we had new drapes and she came over and said how lovely they looked and it will be nice not to have to look through those damn dirty windows. I guess she could have been your mother Steve.
    😉
    Kate, you are truly a gem. I never miss a day checking out this blog.
    Brian Mallard

  33. Dr. Dawg has it all wrong. Natural resources like the tar sands are the property of ‘the people’ of the Province, not the whole country. Those 45.4 Kilo bags of stinking goo should be sent only to Albertans:)

  35. Well-done, Kate! Thanks for all of the work you put into this blog for thinking Canadians who are sick to death of being exploited by what passes for a news (sic) media these days.
    You should be making the Big Buck$, not the idiots at the CEEB.

  36. Congratulations to your milestone Kate. I sincerely appreciate this forum. It is good for the spirit, to read comments and comment. The moniker is only to irritate the real Bolsheviks.

  37. Rarely does a day pass that I miss a visit to SDA. Congratulations Kate, you’ve built a winning blog… one of the very best on the web.
    I visit many other blogs, read lots of articles, read lots of comments. I’m convinced SDA is one of relatively few I’ve ever seen with the kind of traffic being discussed here. As a matter of fact, many, many bloggers PLEAD for traffic of any sort; not a problem at SDA.
    Thanks Kate. And as Tenebris said above, “don’t stop”.

  39. Assuming 6,666,666 data points, and 666 data points per beast, then SDA has just passed it’s 10,010’th beast. But seriously, thanks for all the hard work you put into this site, Kate. Casual visitors might not be aware of the effort it takes to both create content and bounce the RJB-types, which as I noticed you have just done once again, yet those who combine the time and history understand and appreciate it. Salut!

  40. it wasn’t that long ago we were celebrating your millionth! ah well time flies when you’re having fun or in a coma.

  42. Congratulations Kate. Life would be very dull indeed without your blog. It’s a little oasis of freedom and truth.

  43. It seems to me that it was just a couple of years ago you were interviewed on Peter Warren’s program and passed 1 million. Congrats.
    As an ex Sask. resident with sisters and brothers still living in Regina I often feel I’m still a native.And your blog gives me more of a connection to Sask. than relatives. Interestingly none of them are conservatives so every chance I get I mention and quote SDA.
    Keep up the good work. Its a must (and first) read for me every day.
    Horny Toad

  45. Leftist thinking often reminds me of the saying “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” So here is an Irish blessing for you, Kate:
    “May the grass grow long on the road to hell for want of use.”
    You are an inspiration. Thank you for running my favourite website.

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