I removed the link as well the normal link you would have got from leaving a comment like a normal commenter. I can go find your blog if I ever FEEL like reading about “Brazilian Teak, Slave Labor, and the Destruction of the Rain Forest.” You are not going to have an opportunity to promote your blog here any more than the rest of the spammers who leave links.

I don’t know Kermit, so why should I care anything about your blog, your views or visiting your entry? Do I care whether or not you particicpated in Blog Action Day? Not particularly. Do I care if you are an extremist? No. Using another’s blog to promote your agenda might be an indication that you are an extremist. I don’t want to know a blogger who comment spams. I don’t go visit others spammers blogs when they leave a link that way either. I certainly don’t post spammers links.

I don’t post comments with links from people I do not know.

Am I extreme? I dunno. I don’t think the labels “conservative” or “liberal” any more.

Do you think I am extreme? I did not participate in Blog Action Day. No particular reason. But I decided to write a belated post of my own about an environmental issue that might strike a cord with some of your readers:

Brazilian Teak, Slave Labor, and the Destruction of the Rain Forest.

You can find it at:

Anything that you can do to help promote awareness of this issue will be deeply appreciated. Check it out and let me know if I am an extremist.

Keep up your good work.

Thank you!

I have not done the green designation or certification yet.

First off – thanks for quoted little old me in your excellent post. It’s appreciated.

As a realtor who is an advocate for green building investment, I’m kind of on the fence with respect to the “passionate” thing. I see opportunities in home building to enhance our safety and become more independent of foreign energy sources. These things evoke a passion in me, but I see my feet as being firmly planted on the ground throughout. On the other hand, I am bummed by the screeching rhetoric that passes for discussion these days. It’s not the conservatives or moderates doing the screeching, in my observation. Global warming has risen almost to the level of a religion (it’s probably there already), thanks to the heavy marketing campaign. The actual data is lost in there somewhere…am I a heretic? I suppose so. But I’m hopeful.

Or maybe I missed the part of the Blog Action Day instructions that said if I posted anything for Blog Action Day I had to follow a particular point of view or agenda.

I am willing to learn, I am tring to learn but heavy handed people telling me what I need to feel turn me off.

Anything I find in my spam filter (Kristina was in the spam filter since she included links in her comment) from a stranger is approached with caution as well, maybe I will look at her links. Or maybe I won’t. I am not including them here though.