The new blog can be found at:   www.iepolitics.com

I have received several complaints that the blog has become slow to load.  I removed the two new programs I added.  Please let me know if this helps.

I am seriously struggling trying to come up with political stories.  I know everyone wants the inside scoop on the Colonies situation but I’m in a situation where it is difficult to discuss it without betraying confidences.  Other than that, there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot going on.  If anyone has any great ideas, please pass them along.  Anonymous tips can still be sent to PO Box 2722, Apple Valley, CA 92307.

We have been working on Bill’s blog for the past few days.  There are several changes.  The most fun of all is the addition of Prime Minister’s Questions.  Check it out.  Congress looks so boring in comparison.  Prime Minister

Well ACU, you are No. 15,000.  The current version of the blog is not quite two years old.  There have been 2758 posts with a total of 15,000 comments.  Since its inception we have posted more than 10,000 stories and received 35,000 comments.

Our goal has always been to average 4 comments per story and we have been exceeding that goal for some time.  We are getting closer to 6 comments per story.  We appreciate your continued support especially in light of the fact I have had so little ability to keep the blog updated for quite a while now.  I’m trying to make things change.

Thank you once again.

I am now on Day 24 of the bug from hell.  I’m starting to feel a bit better but still not up to much blogging.  All I really want to do is sleep.   I have a ton of articles in the works that I hope to get posted in the next few days.   Please keep checking back.  I appreciate your continued readership.

It’s been 17 days since I picked up the bug from hell. I can’t seem to get over it.  I am not sure why it has hit be so hard except my immune system must have been compromised.  I will try to get this blog updated tomorrow (Friday) for those who wonder if there will ever be anything new. In the meantime, Happy Veterans Day to all who served our country.

Several months ago I took down the PayPal button and stopped asking for donations to keep the blog going because I was tired of the grief it caused.  I have been trying to keep it going through earnings from Examiner.com.  Between the low pay and my lack of internet access, we are barely limping along.

I am asking again to click on my Examiner articles if you are not doing so.  Here are links to the last few:

http://www.examiner.com/animal-welfare-in-palm-springs/national-protest-against-kill-pounds-to-target-local-shelter

http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-los-angeles/county-supervisors-fight-whistleblower-lawsuit-to-the-tune-of-nearly-800-000

http://www.examiner.com/government-in-palm-springs/attitudes-of-elected-officials-make-the-difference-with-animal-control-issues

I have a lot of bloggers I owe information/phone calls to.  My internet access is so limited right now that I just don’t have time to keep up.  For those in Trona, the lady next to the freeway in SB, and Raisuli, I have not forgotten you.  If I have not mentioned you, your email is probably so buried, I will never find it.  Please email me again at iepolitics2010@gmail.com.

Things will hopefully slow down a bit mid-November and I will have a better internet connection.  Please continue to send tips and information for posts.

Also, does anyone have an update on the autopsy on the gentleman from Lake Arrowhead?  How about the Rutherford recall?  Opponents for Brad?  Where Lewis is running?

A new version of the template for this blog came out today, so I updated.  As you can see, it made the print much larger.  The larger print bugs me, but of course I am nearsighted.  Changing it back requires me to adjust the CSS, which was a pain in the butt to begin with.  I thought I would ask you, the readers, if you would prefer to go back to the smaller print or leave it as is.

FYI, I am planning a complete revamp of the blog for the new year.  I plan to move everything from iepolitics.com to iepolitics.net and then start the new year off with a completely different theme and change a few of the ways I do things for all new iepolitics.com entries, including trying to be more consistent with style, correct grammar, and quality.  First I have to find a template I like.  I will keep you posted.

I am going to be out of pocket for a while.  It could be a day or it could be a week.  Don’t get upset if your comments don’t get approved.  They will be once one of us is near an internet connection.

This is for those who have their own political blogs or small newspapers in San Bernrdino County or run San Bernardino County stories.  I seem to be missing emails for most of you and trying to find you on Facebook has been a problem.  If you want to be on the press release list for the big project I’ve been talking about for months, I need your email address.  Send it to me at iepolitics2010@gmail.com asap.

My email address is iepolitics2010@gmail.com.

Nothing seems to be working in terms of forwarding the blog or trying to shut it down AND preserve its contents.  So, the blog will be up but will only be updated when and if I feel like with what I feel like posting.  Live with it.

I was working from Yucca Valley last night.  Little did I know the whole place shuts down at 9 p.m. so I lost my internet connection early and never got all my posts done.  I also didn’t get Bill’s posts done.  Check out www.BillPostmus.net if you would like to read national items.

I appreciate all the responses and I am going to try to get a post out before the end of the night (my night that is).

Taking a few days away from the blog allowed me some time to put things in perspective.  I guess the bottom line is that after five years of doing this, the last eighteen months of which has been trying to keep it afloat without a paycheck, I’m tired of readers telling me that I “must” keep the blog going while only receiving lackluster support.

Some months ago, after a ton of encouragement from others, I added the PayPal button so that at least the hosting fees could get paid.  I try to get posts up from Starbucks, McDonald’s, Denny’s, the library, or wherever I can find an internet connection, whenever I can make it into the big city.  I have tried several things to get the internet at home but I seem to live in a dead zone as nothing works (same goes for my cell phone and radio).

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I haven’t had time to explain the most recent issues with the blog.  It was not down due to financial issues.  Someone wanted it down and there shall be lots of hints in the near future as to whom that might of been.  As they say, the pen is mightier than the sword and hell has seen no fury . . ..  I will leave the rest to your imagination.

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I have not felt the least bit motivated to write this past week.  I guess you all can tell!    This would be the perfect time for submissions and/or topic ideas.  I will try to get back on track next week.

Tomorrow I will do my best to post the second article in the Abernathie sex scandal series and “Behind the Scenes – Part Two.”  The latter is written but I need to verify a few things first.

If you have submitted stories to me and they have not appeared, please send me a reminder as to what they are.  I’m trying to get caught up but I literally receive hundreds of emails a day and I know some stories are getting buried.

I received an email from a former employee of Jeff Burum tonight and that reminded me that I have posted contact information in a while.  If you have tips that you do not want to put on the blog directly, you can email me at iepolitics2010@gmail.com.  Or if you have documents you want to share, you can send them to PO Box 2722, Apple Valley, CA 92307.

Apparently I hit one button too few. I had no idea the blog was going down, and by the time I found out, there wasn’t much I could do.

Life has been a bit busy the past few days, but we should be back with new stories tomorrow.

I honestly never thought it was possible, but we just crashed through our former hits records of November 17, 2009.  I guess Mark Uffer will be relieved to know that his termination is no longer the most popular story on the blog.  Then again, with his ego, he might be quite disappointed.

Thank you all for your support.  We didn’t get everything we wanted today, but we did make some good things happen.  Let’s see where this story goes.

February 25 represents two anniversaries for me.  One, it is my 31st year as a county employee.  But these days it represents a much more important anniversary.  Some of you have no idea what I’m writing about, but for those who do and have been the source of inspiration and encouragement, I thank you.

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Imagine our surprise today with Jim Erwin announced he received over 78,000 hits yesterday, especially when we knew exactly how many hits he really received, which was 2,720. Yes you read that right.

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To: Sharon Gilbert, owner of iepolitics.com
Fr: Traci Dean, tdean485@gmail.com
Date: February 22, 2011

RE: Retraction and public apology

Dear Sharon Gilbert,

You are hereby given twenty four hours to do a complete retraction and public apology for the defamation and slander that you committed against me.

You have twenty four hours to post a full retraction of every negative comment and/or story about me including a public apology. If you fail to comply with this, I will file criminal charges against you for each act, ”California Penal code §258, as for slander is a malicious defamation of character. Each individual item that you posted is punishable by one year in prison and a $10,000.00 fine. It can also result in your Blog being dismantled as you are attacking not a public official, but a private citizen.

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The blog is good for another month, much to the chagrin of a few people.

Does anyone know of a cash card that can be used to transfer money to PayPal?  I tried one but it couldn’t be used for that purpose.  I don’t know what else to try to keep this from happening although with some of the other projects I’m working on, this should be a problem of the past very soon.

Case MVI027734 Defendant 902751 – DEAN, TRACI

Sorry to ask once again, but the PayPal account is short $3 bucks this month for the blog.  We’ve got stuff in the works that will take care of this once and for all, but my timeline for getting it done isn’t anyone else’s timeline, unfortunately.  I keep thinking, I won’t have to ask again, but no promises.  One of these days . . .

As I have noted in comments, I have not had a lot of time for the blog but our hits continue to climb.  Today and yesterday broke records.  We here at iePolitics appreciate all the support.

If anyone can help out with a PayPal donation, it would be appreciated.  I will be happy to send you cash if you let me know who you are (more often than not I don’t know where the donations come from).  As always, nothing over $5.  The account is only a few dollars short but since I don’t have a bank account I have no way to transfer money into it.

Our hits are increasing by leaps and bounds.  I’m starting to take action to increase that even more.  We really appreciate the support.

I thought I would take a moment to let everyone know what I’m doing to keep iePolitics up and running.  There are two issues here.

First, as you all know, paying for it has been an issue as I have not worked in over a year and the county refuses to pay my disability or settle my worker’s compensation claim unless I agree to shut down the blog or resign.  I refuse to do either.

I have really appreciated the financial support many of you have given to keep the blog alive.  Even while I had no way to blog, some donations came in to keep the blog going another month.

Second, there is a serious  issue of blog security.  The county has attempted to hack the blog and my email.  I have received numerous warnings from Sheriff’s Department personnel who are aware of what the county is doing, and based on what was done to my email accounts, I have no reason to doubt what I was told.

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If everything goes right, I will be back on line.  It’s been tough being away from the blog for eleven days!  Thank you to those who helped keep it going in my absence.

I just checked hits, and seriously you guys, I couldn’t believe what I saw.   We had only a few days where we fell below 30,000.  Considering the lack of content, I was surprised.

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I keep getting requests by those who want to know how to contact us.  The most secure way is to send an anonymous envelope to P.O. Box 2722, Apple Valley, CA 92307.   The current email address is iepolitics2010@gmail.com.

I wanted to take a second to say thank you to all who have supported iePolitics, but especially in the past two weeks.  Despite the fact that my internet access has been spotty at best, you guys keep coming back.  I think we only had one day out of the last fourteen when we fell below 50,000 hits for the day.  We appreciate your support.

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All the changes lately seem to have people confused.  At this point, the ONLY email address for iePolitics is iePolitics2010@gmail.com.

Well just when I think all hope is lost, someone comes through.  The blog and my electricity will be up and running for one more month.  There will be a couple of changes.   I cannot afford my computer connection so I will be blogging from the library, which only allows me 1.5 hours of computer time a day.  So the blog will stay on full moderation since I no longer have a Blackberry.

I will be able to get to Starbucks a couple times a week and on those days you will likely to see a lot more posts.  For now, I have a lot of catching up to do and it will take a few days.

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