On Sept. 24th, 2004 your obedient Okie setup a Blogger account and Okie On The Lam blog was born. It was a Sunday afternoon and instead of being wary of the “whitespace”, or the blank writing box on the monitor, I acquiesced to the old adage, “writers write” — and so I wrote this article called Initial Post:

This being the first post, I was feeling compelled to make some grand statement of intent, deliver a personal manifesto or write a bio — something to reveal the individual behind the blog. But hey, I’m not gonna do that, at least, not now. Better that the posts themselves lead to those kind of revelations over time. I will say that being a conservative and living in the Peoples Republic of Santa Monica here in the Los Angeles basin is more often than not, verrrrry interesting.

Something that caught my eye this week was the ESSAY article in the back of Time Magazine’s 9/27 edition. The first line (Imagine that America is a car.) grabbed my attention, fancy that. This essay appears in the same issue where this bastion of liberal thinking tries to come to grips with the recent CBS 60 minutes fiasco. See a teaser of that article, subtitled “The CBS flap is one more sign of the ferocious struggle between political partisans to see the world their way”. Partisans seeing the world their way? What I witnessed was the blogosphere doing the research that a world class news organization should have done, and calling them on it when they discovered out right fraud was being perpetrated!

The mainstream media seems to be having a very hard time adjusting to the proliferation of information outlets on cable, talk radio and the internet, especially those that resonate with a conservative voice. The youthful campaigners for change from the 60’s & 70’s are now the old men of hide bound tradition, and they are fighting as hard as their forebears did to maintain the status quo. Having gone through the university system during the 70’s, I actually find this hilarious.

[This next segment is sure dated, now!]

The masses now have many different sources of information, opinions and styles of delivery to sample, making it shameful if one is not well informed. Like it hard and brutal? Try Hannity & Colmes on Fox (Conservative) or Chris Matthew’s Hardball on MSNBC (Liberal). Rather laugh? There’s Dennis Miller (C) on MSNBC or The Daily Show with John Stewart (L) on Comedy Central. Slate will give you a liberal perspective while the main commentators of conservative thought can be found at the Townhall. And of course, there are all those blogs!

Maybe Time, Newsweek, CBS, NBC, ABC et all are wringing her hands over the shift in influence, but I’m having a great time tracking this election cycle. It’s even cutting into my car magazine reading time. Can’t wait for election day, or maybe the day after when those Kerry/Edwards stickers I see on all those Volvos around here start getting covered up with HILLARY in ‘08. Geez! Let’s get the war done and start getting Condi ready to run . . .

I’ll get better at this, really I will — db

Well, I almost got it right with the Hillary call for the Dems, but my Condi affection was seriously misplaced.

A lot has happened in these last five years. However, the MSM is still acting as if they are collectively without a clue. The partisan divide is getting wider, faster, despite our self-proclaimed post-racial President. Being a conservative on the Westside of Los Angeles still isn’t easy, and is still quite politically lonely. I have met, both in person and online, many fine conservative bloggers, some of which I call friends even though I don’t really know them — or, maybe I do really know them. Some of my readers are very loyal, even though I go through depressions and time of scant postings. Many thanks to you guys for that!

It’s hard if not impossible to stay inactive now that it seems our basic freedoms are under daily attack by these socialist-community organizers that have taken over the Executive branch of our government, with constant support by the increasingly left-leaning Democratic party leadership. Their fantastical overreach on Cap & Trade and National Health Care is making the 2010 election cycle crucial, and exciting. I plan to be more politically proactive than I have ever previously imagined. As that happens, I’ll take you along for the ride.

Whether or not I have kept that last promise in my initial post I leave up to you.

Thanks for reading . . . here’s to the next five.

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