That’s fine, really. Just please don’t make this blog, or yourself, out to be open minded and welcome diversity of views under the guide that those views are welcome, as long as they agree with yours.

Unless you have an objection, I’ll remain for awhile. At the beginning of the year, you mused about whether this blog should continue. If it’s to be a tribute to yourself, yes. On the other hand, if you can handle legitimate debate and criticism as you appeared, I thought, to want than the answer is probably not.

Just because you pay for “it,” you still place “it” in the public domain. Otherwise, you’d have a password protected blog with a private subscriber base, wouldn’t you?

I’m just trying to understand what it really is that you want from your readers, Mark? Explain it, please and if it is agreement only, than I will move on. I would have thought you’d enjoy the intellectual challenge though.

Eduard Anatolyevich Hill
Эдуард Анатольевич Хиль

Soviet Russian pop singer (baritone), Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1968), People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1974).

Eduard Hill was born on September 4, 1934 in Smolensk, USSR. In 1960 he graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory (class of singing EG Olkhovsky and ZP Lody) and began performing as a soloist of the “Len-Concert”.

Eduard Hill is the first to perform the songs “Lumberjacks” and “Moonstone” by Arkady Ostrovsky, and “Song about a friend”, “Blue City”, “But the people go away to the sea” by Andrei Petrov.

Eduard Hill performed such popular songs as: “Of what is the Motherland Founded?”, “Sending off Steamships,” “Blue Cities”, “How Good it is to be a General”, “At the Edge of the forest”, “Birch Sap”, “Sun Ballad “, “What, Tell Me, is Your Name?”, “On Nameless Height”

From 1977-1979, Hill taught solo singing at the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography.
Since 1997, he participates with his son in a joint project with the rock group Prepinaki.
He worked in Paris at a cafe “Rasputin”.
The manner Hill’s Performance is unique and easily recognizable, characterized by charm, consistently excellent, bright, sonorous sound, and lilting, lyrical baritone, with a mighty charge of optimism and humor. On stage Hill remains very confident and smart, accompanying his singing with light dance moves and expressive gestures. Never straying from his academic singing style, Hill distinguished himself with enviable stage longevity. According to many critics, Eduard Hill stood as one of the symbols for Leningrad.
Present place of residence: Tolstoy House in St. Petersburg.

Since I will continue to remove comments that don’t meet my subjective criteria and moreover I really don’t care if that annoys you or not, you are probably going remain unhappy. Unless you have some masochistic bent, you might as well stop reading me and hang out somewhere else.

I do think that you have, to a certain extent, censored comments of mine in opposition to your views in the past, so I don’t think you should “resent the implication.” Either you let respectful opposition comments be published or at least you should, IMHO, be straightforward enough to say that opposing dialogue upsets you.

When people leave comments if they have a web site they can leave the URL, or they can leave it blank. I rarely mess with these URLs unless they point to obviously spam related sites, in which case I delete them and frankly I resent the implication that I would do so systematically. Paranoia on the right sometimes seems to be boundless.

The criteria for comments are quite clear. Having said that I notice that some on the political right get a bit obsessive and will hammer a point home on multiple comments on a particular topic. Once is generally enough. It seems that some feel they cannot be heard unless they have the privilege of repeating themselves over and over again and anything else, even when they are not paying for the web space, is somehow against freedom of expression. What silliness.

As for Obama, he’s done. One term and out will be his legacy. Whoever is the Republican nominee will be the next POTUS much to the chagrin of liberals such as yourself.

Obama’s broken promise of not accepting federal campaign funds in 2008 will come back to haunt him as smart businessmen and their corporations do what is right for the blue collar working class and put up the money needed to defeat Obama. If he didn’t have the overwhelming majority of minority voters, he would have lost the last time, regardless of his lying and broken promises on campaign finances. Now, about all he’s got left are the minorities, true and traditional bleeding heart liberals and gays but the gay community is losing faith in him as well.

Sorry Mark, you’ll be back to full minority status in terms of your politics this year, 2012 and likely for the remainder of your life.

A Senate turnover means Obama will not be able to appoint another Supreme Court justice who is pro-abortion as well. Roe will be overturned soon after the 2012 election.

Happy Days are here again with common sense about to prevail among the middle and upper classes in this country who work hard and pay the majority of the freight, unlike the career welfarites who have their hands perpetually out, and into, those of us footing the bill for them now.