That Blozzz

Owning a blog is fun and it allows me to share my views and opinions with others and interact with others. However, to be a successful blogger to have to have a love for reading. I spend tons of timing reading all kinds of things both on the Internet and off.

As you have read on my blog, my topics vary quite a bit. I really enjoy keeping up with the latest political news. This not only allows me to learn what is happening in the world, it allows me to find topics to share with my readers. I spend at least an hour a day reading various blogs to see what others are thinking in terms of today’s political problems.

Another topic of great interest to me is religion. I am not a religious person but I do like to learn and read about the various religions. I spend time searching for great religion related article resources to find out as much as I can about all the worlds religions. I feel that by understanding the religions of others, you can understand why people do what they do.

Because reading involves knowledge, I vary my reading to include many other topics. I enjoy reading pets articles since I am an avid pet owner. As you all know, I raise chickens and I have a beautiful German Shepard. My other interest is mostly finance and investing type articles which help me make the right decisions when it comes to my money.

No matter what your interest are, if you are a blogger, you have to have a love for reading and you have to express that love to your readers. It is also important to instill the love of reading onto your children and the younger generation. It is a great time to just find some cool stuff to read about. As you read, you will find that you are gaining more knowledge and it will expand your whole world.

Today is the big kick off for our Blog Contest! I am excited to see how well it does and whop the winners will be. Have you seen the prizes? There are some really nice prize packages up for grab.

Well, I am about to sweeten the pot a little!

This is a mini cash contest for the first 25 people who enter the contest. As soon as the first 25 join, I will draw for $5 Paypal donated by Swastik . You will be contacted as soon as a winner is picked.

Hurry and enter now so you are in this drawing! You will still be eligible for other drawings and the big contest.

Remember, this mini contest is only for the first 25 who enter the big contest!

Have fun and Good Luck!

That Blozzz On Year Anniversary  Blog Contest

That Blozzz is turning One and with the help of many friends, I am having a contest that will Blozzz you away!The prizes will be shown and behind each prize will be listed who donated the prize by showing the link to the sponsor.

Here are the Prize Packages

Grand Prize Package

• 5000 Entrecard (EC) Credits $29 value:  That Blozzz
• One Year Free Hosting  (Their Ultimate Plan) $240 Value: Cencero Hosting
• 500 Manual Traffic Hits and 3000 Banner Impressions  Total of$87 value (Requires 468X60 banner):Blog Weekends
• $15 Cash (Paypal): Ghosts and The Paranormal World
• Permanent Directory Featured Link $29.95 value: Deep Link Web Directory
• One Month 125×125 Ad Space (PR5) $30 Value: Noobpreneur Business Blog
• One Month 125×125 Ad Space: Free Famous Quotes

Second Place Prize Package

• Six Months Tiny Shared Hosting Plan $24 Value: Affordable Web Hosting
• 1000 Entrecard credits and a Avatar or Banner Creation (125×125) : Eyespi20.com
• 1000 Entrecard Credits $6 value: Random Detox | Travel and Tech
• 1000 Entrecard Credits $6 value: Wiehanne Lounge
• One Month 125×125 Ad Space and 500 EC Credits: Disney Auditions
• 468X60 Banner Advertising Spot for One Month $20 Value: MilPlace
• Six Month Text Link on Front Page of (96Main.net) Directory: Chetan
• One Month 468×60 Banner Ad Space $50 Value: Bl.ogology.com
• One Month 125×125 Ad Space: Gift Reviews

Third Place Prize Package

• Three Months Of Sh2 Hosting Package: FeatherHost
• One Month 125×125 Ad Space: Automotive blog
• One Month Text Link: Project Runway Philippines
• One Month Text Link $10 value: The Artist’s Muse
• One Month 125×125 Ad Space: Better Interpersonal Communication
• One Month Text Link and 250 Entrecard Credits: Destiny
• 468X60 Banner Advertising Spot for One Month $20 Value: Aussie Infidel
• 1000 Entrecard Credits $6 value: The Path to the Pegasus Letter

Fourth Place Prize Package

• Three Months Of Sh2 Hosting Package: FeatherHost
• 468X60 Banner Advertising Spot for One Month $20 Value: Lucky Webmasters
• 1000 Entrecard Credits $6 Value: Time Recursion

Fifth Place Prize Package

• 1000 Entrecard Credits $6 value; B’coz I’m a Baby
• Two Week Text Link Ad: SimplyWP

Sixth Place Prize Package

• 500 Entrecard Credits: Miss Dhadha
• Two Week Text Link Ad: Medan Daily

Seventh Place

• 500 Entrecard Credits: I Heart Contest

Eighth Place

• 500 Entrecard Credits: Blogging From Scratch

Random Daily Drawings

There will be random drawings throughout the contest that will be either cash or Entrecard Credits. Check in Daily throughout the contest to be able to enter those. $25 cash was donated by Swastik to run these mini contests.

There will also be other Daily Prizes:

One month 125×125 Ad spot and 500 EC Credits: Indo Contest

One month 125×125 Ad spot: RapidShoots

500 EC Credits: Affiliatizer

1000 EC Credits: SEO Blog

One month 125×125 Ad spot:: Anything Goes

One month 125×125 Ad spot: Hit-or-Miss

Blog Contest Rules

1. Sign up for my RSS Feed by Email (Located on top right side of blog). *Required
2. Write about this contest on your blog or website including all prizes and live links to the sponsors. *Required
3. Leave a comment on this post with link to the location of the post about the contest and letting me know you signed up for the RSS Feed. *Required so I know you  entered
4. Visit the Sponsors websites. * Optional but a nice way to thank them for the contest
5. Leave a real email to contact you in the space provided in the comment section for me to let you know if you win.
6. Post a copy of the cotest logo on your website. *Optional but will allow your friends to see it
7. Everyone is eligible to enter including sponsors! The only one who can not enter is me!
8. Have any quesions? Ask them here in the comment section or you can use the contact tab on the top of the page.
9. Contest runs from November 24 through December 20, 2008.
10. Unsubscribing from the email feed will void your entry in the contest. Also not including l;inks in your blog post will also void your entry.

Have fun and enjoy the blog contest and let your friends know about the contest! If you like contests, please share it by clicking on the bookmarking sites to submit this post.

As promised, a winner has been chosen to receive the 500 Entrecard Credits for the Question of the Day Contest.

The winner is Penelope Pince! I will be sending her the credits in just a few minutes!

List Randomizer

There were 15 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

1. Penelope Pince
2. Joanne
3. Elizabeth M.
4. Joanne
5. Penelope Pince
6. Sheila
7. Elizabeth M.
8. Sheila
9. Joanne
10. Joanne
11. Elizabeth M.
12. Penelope Pince
13. Penelope Pince
14. Penelope Pince
15. Elizabeth M.

Timestamp: 2008-11-23 15:50:56 UTC

I want to thank all those who joined in the contest and I encourage all of you to join my That Blozzz Anniversary Contest Starting Tomorrow November 24, 2008.

The following people have won in this past week’s daily drawings!

Monday: Sheila 50 EC credits (Elizabeth won 25 for being the first entry)

Tuesday: Elizabeth M 50 EC Credits

Wednesday: Joanne 50 EC Credits

Thursday: Penelope Pince50 EC Credits

Friday: Penelope Pince 50 EC Credits

Saturday: Penelope Pince 50 EC Credits

Weekly Winner: Penelope Pince 500 EC Credits

Congratulations to all winners!

Thanks again for supporting the blog!

We decided that the banties were more work than their value. They were cute and fun to watch but with winter coming, it was hard to find a warm place to keep them. The big chickens stay nice and warm in their chicken house but I had a separate area for the banties in the big barn. This area was getting too cold and I decided to give the four banties away. My neighbor said she wanted them so I took them over after dark.

The only reason I got them in the first place was because Karen thought they were so cute and her cousin hatched some out so Karen wanted them. Of course, I was the one having to take care of them. My big ones are easy because I have one huge water container and I can just run hot water over it and thaw it everyday after it freezes. It was a pain to have to do that and then have to thaw the little water container for the banties.

Though they were cute, I will not miss them because I prefer my big chickens much more.

Goodbye banties, hope you like your new home!

Do you raise any farm animals?

I am a little late today but we have a winner for Day Five:

There were 2 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

1. Penelope Pince
2. Joanne

Timestamp: 2008-11-22 19:10:44 UTC

Penelope is the winner of 50ec credits!

This is the final day for the Question of the Day Contest. Tomorrow, I will enter everyone who entered during the six daily contest and the winner will receive 500 Entrecard Credits. Each time you entered the contest during the week will count as one entry in tomorrow’s contest. You still have a chance by entering todays’ contest by answering the question of the day.

Be sure to start entering the Big Blog Contest starting on Monday.

Today’s Question:

What is your favorite holiday and why?

Good luck and hope to get more entries today!

Well we are up to day five and only three days from the big Blog Contest. I am excited and prizes are still pouring in. We have a winner from Day Four!

List Randomizer

There were 3 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

1. Penelope Pince
2. Joanne
3. Elizabeth M.

Timestamp: 2008-11-21 14:03:41 UTC

Penelope, you are the 50 EC credits for yesterday. You need to contact me through Entrecard so I can send your credits. Thanks for your continued support.

Today’s question is:

We all have problems in our life. However, we need to look deeper into what we have. What is one thing you are thankful for and why?

I have stated over and over my objections to the original Bail Out Bill. It was passed on and voted for by all my so-called representatives in Congress. I write a strongly written objection Charles Schumer, Hillary Clinton, and John McHugh and we see where the Bail Out ended up.

I received a reply from Hillary a while ago with a bullshit response and here is what I received today from Charles Schumer.

Thank you for writing and sharing your thoughts about America’s financial crisis. I agree with you that giving the Secretary of the Treasury authority over a $700 billion dollar fund to stabilize the financial system, without any checks on his authority, or oversight of his actions, would have been a grave mistake. However, the severity of this economic crisis forced the Congress to act in order to save Main Street from further financial pain. If we had not acted when we did, small businesses trying to fill orders and meet payroll, students looking to pay for college, consumers looking to buy cars and so many others would have faced even greater economic hardships, which would have been disastrous for household wealth and jobs in our country.

That is why I made the difficult decision to support the administration’s rescue plan after insisting on changes to the program to ensure that taxpayers will share in the rewards of recovery, that executives of these mismanaged financial institutions would not be enriched with taxpayer money, and that there would be effective oversight of the program. When the economy recovers, taxpayers should be able to recoup most, or all, of this money because the federal government will earn a return from any investments it makes in banks needing assistance. To hold the banks’ executives accountable, the bill requires that all companies that benefit from government assistance limit how much they pay their top employees and, in many cases, eliminate golden parachutes entirely. And to guarantee effective oversight of the rescue program, major oversight mechanisms were written into the legislation, including the creation of a new Inspector General and Congressional oversight panel.

Finally, we forced the Administration to add protections for homeowners into the bill that address the eye of the financial storm – the foreclosure crisis. Of course, this is only one part of a comprehensive solution needed to get our economy back on the right track. Congress stands ready to deliver a broad-based economic stimulus package to invest in Main Street, create new high-paying jobs, and keep the engine of our economy going.

Again, thank you for contacting me on this important issue. Please do not hesitate to contact me again if I can be of further assistance on this, or any other matter.

Sincerely,

Charles E. Schumer
United States Senator

Yes Charlie, that worked out great! We taxpayers are in such better shape now after the Bail Out. I respond publicly by stating, if it is up to me “Your Fired!”

Well we are already on to day four of the Entrecard Giveaway. We are coming closer to the big Blog Contest. We had three entries yesterday and we have another winner.

Joanne was the 50ec winner for day three. Please contact me on Entrecard so you can receive your credits!

There were 3 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

1. Joanne
2. Elizabeth M.
3. Penelope Pince

Timestamp: 2008-11-20 13:46:40 UTC

Today’s Question for a chance to win 50 EC credits is:

What is the most important character trait in choosing a mate and why?

Please leave a comment with your answer.

All daily entries will be entered in the 500 EC Credit drawing on Sunday so enter everyday!

Thanks all that entered yesterday. Day One’s Payout was already made and here is the winner for Day Two:

List Randomizer
There were 5 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Elizabeth M
Sheila
Joanne
PJ
Penelope
Timestamp: 2008-11-19 16:08:53 UTC

Elizabeth was the lucky winner and needs to contact me through Entrecard to receive her prize.

It is started to get more entries so here is the question fro day three.

What is you favorite pet animal and why?

Please be sure to enter everyday and do not forget all entries will be thrown in for the 500 EC credits on Sunday. Please be sure to also keep an eye on the prizes adding up on the big blog contest