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Support the First Amendment! Announcing the First Annual NQ Blogathon!

By SuperGalt on November 24, 2009 at 8:30 PM in Current Affairs

I’m ecstatic to announce that my partner in crime, NonHyphenated American, and I have volunteered to host the First Annual NQ Blogathon this week!

If you are unable to attend the festivities, please do all your Amazon shopping via the links below: NQ receives a portion of your purchase price at no additional cost to you.

Shop Amazon and help NQ!

Special link for Black Friday sales, already in progress:

Shop Black Friday at Amazon and help NQ!

You can also click on any Amazon link throughout NQ or make a donation via PayPal:

Help NQ via a PayPal donation! PLEASE use the PayPal button in the top right column, just to the right of Larry’s Florida-sunbathing photo.

PLEASE NOTE: Once you click on any link to Amazon starting on the blog, any purchases made during your shopping trip will be credited properly to NQ. Please remember to always start your Amazon shopping here on NQ!

The First Amendment guarantees:

“…the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble…”

What better way to celebrate our liberty than by supporting NQ?

What is a ‘blogathon’ you ask?

Basically a blogathon is a telethon for a blog. NonHyphenated American and I will be online to urge folks to shop at Amazon and donate funds via PayPal. We want to encourage people to announce their generosity in their comments. We can also all share in some festive holiday merriment and good cheer!

As aforementioned, special links will be provided so that when you make a purchase at Amazon, NQ receives a percentage of your purchase price.

A mailing address will also be provided for those who prefer to send a check or money order.

NQ is a free public service generously provided by Larry Johnson. The blog is an all-volunteer endeavor. However, it costs thousands of dollars per year to run the blog in web hosting and administration fees. Your help is needed to keep this valuable and precious resource available for all to use. It is my hope to help defer some of the costs incurred by Larry.

I found NQ when I was desperate for an outlet to express my concerns surrounding the last general election. Now, NQ is needed more than ever, as a place for contrarian views. Dissent is healthy and necessary for our great republic to not just survive, but flourish. Both NonHyphenated American and I hope to see our fellow patriots at the First Annual NQ Blogathon!

What: First Annual NQ Blogathon

Date: Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 26, 2009

Time: 8PM-Midnight Eastern, 7PM-11PM Central, 6PM-10PM Mountain, 5PM-9PM Pacific

Thanks everyone and we look forward to your participation in the First Annual NQ Blogathon!

SuperGalt

Shop Amazon and help NQ!

Shop Black Friday at Amazon and help NQ!

Help NQ via a PayPal donation! PLEASE use the PayPal button in the top right column, just to the right of Larry’s Florida-sunbathing photo.

  • Tricia

    Hey, this sounds great! And No Quarter does deserve a lot of support.

  • TeakWoodKite

    Mr. J can recieve the “Five Iron” award at somepoint in the evening.

  • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

    I’ve already started my Amazon list – through NQ, of course! :-)

    Thanks, SuperGalt, for doing this. You’re a prince!

    • SuperGalt

      You’re quite welcome Rev. Amy! I came up with the blogathon idea and both NonHyphenated American and I are honored to help out. This little outpost of liberty in cyberspace is priceless in a world that mistakenly adheres to conformity where it does not belong.

  • Bronwyn’s Harbor

    I love that Amazon keeps my cart even if i close my browser and don’t come back to the cart for a day or two. A while ago, I tried out Barnes & Noble, and discovered that the cart goes poof if I exit — which meant that i had to start all over, finding each book that was in my list — and their prices were a bit higher. The crew involved in developing the Amazon site made it so customer-friendly.

  • Linda Anselmi

    What a great idea SuperGalt. I’ve had my eye on that crazy looking lasagna Pan that RRRAmy recommends.

    • Ellen D

      Got everyone to do Amazon wish lists and started with my son-in-law’s birthday. Lots of birthdays around this time in my family.

  • Onofre’s arm

    Do a thread on the very recent and damning exposure of the man-made global warming FRAUD, and I’ll be on all day, between episodes of cooking, drinking, football, and cleaning dishes.

    I would buy the Wii and accessories for my kids online through NQ if I trusted the system. Buuut, my recent online Facebook disaster has made me very nervous about doing transactions online.

    • Bronwyn’s Harbor

      Amazon’s security is extremely safe. There’s nothing to download, which i suspect is what happened to you in Facebook. Amazon devotes thousands of hours and millions of dollars to ensure safety.

      Also: I get asked for my password a couple itmes when i make my purchase, which I apreciate since it shows that they take an extra step to make sure that it is the correct person placing the order.

      The best thing to do is to create a strong password with a iixture of letters and numbers. It will wrk great then.

      • SuperGalt

        I agree that Amazon is safe. That being said, I wonder if one can call Amazon to place an order and ask that credit be given to NQ? That could be an alternative for them.

        • Bronwyn’s Harbor

          Doubt it.

          but i know so many people who order through Amazon and i have never once heard of a person who had problems.

          the only conceivable problem I can think of is if a person has poor passwords on their computer and at Amazon.

          • SuperGalt

            Yeah. I’m practically paranoid about security, but I do shop at Amazon and have never had a problem.

  • Obamastolemycoutry

    What a great idea! I can safely say that No Quarter, along with the no longer active writehillaryin message board, saved my life in 2008, or at least my sanity! I have no doubt that had I not found these treasures, I would almost certainly be wearing a straight jacket in a room with padded cells!!!

    I will definitely make my Amazon purchases through No Quarter. I made a mental note of that the last time there was a blog article about it. I shop amazon all the time. Sadly, in this economy, it is much less than I use to, but there are still birthdays and school text books and all of those good things that must be purchased anyway!

    Thank you, No Quarter, for helping me through 2008, 2009 and I am sure 2010 and beyond!!!! Love you guys!

    • Obamastolemycoutry

      Oh, dear, I really should not blog when I am tired. I meant to say a cell with padded walls! Oh, you guys knew what I meant!!!

      :-)

  • Ellen D

    May I recommend Jak and Daxter the Lost Frontier? Anybody else work for a company that’s selling American-made products on Amazon? We’re trying to buy American but it’s not easy.

    • SuperGalt

      Next best, if an American manufactured product is not available: American assembled, such as buying a computer assembled in the USA, even though most of the components are manufactured in Asia.

      If not even American assembled is available, I’ve seen some products manufactured and assembled in Asia that had the final testing and tweaking/set-up done here in the USA, such as electric guitar made in Korea that have their final set-up done here in the US.

      Another related area is support and customer service: some businesses (retail, banks, etc.) still do customer support/service based in the US. I tend to favor those companies to keep the support/service jobs here at home. I’ve also found it seems the overseas support people are given less autonomy to actually address my concerns. Perhaps I am wrong about that, but that is how it seems.

      • Ellen D

        Thanks SuperGalt.
        Sorry you couldn’t make the coffee with me here in Hollywood, but we are making American products here that get sold overseas.

        Please ignore some of the crazy political statements made by the stars and give us some credit for making entertainment that everyone in the world wants to see.
        It helps with our balance of payments and enhances America’s image in other countries.

        Jak and Daxter is an American series. This one – the Lost Frontier – will be the first of the series released in Japan. It’s hard to break the Japanese videogame market with an American property.

        • SuperGalt

          I’m unclear if you are speaking about products you personally have a hand in, but if so, best of luck!

          I of course give credit to American ingenuity.

          However, I find it impossible to ignore the impact the outlandish portion of Hollywood have had on our political landscape.

          Perhaps the outlandish should temper their remarks if they don’t want to potentially impact the financial bottom line? I wonder how much of an impact the outlandish actually do have?

          I guess what I am saying is, if there were no outlandish there would be no bad image potentially harming the bottom line.

          • Ellen D

            Hi Galt. Yes, I am talking about entertainment product that I had a hand in. We are an industry like any other and lots of people work in it.

            And actually, maybe it doesn’t matter what craziness the outlandish people say. After all, this has always been the entertainment motto:
            “I don’t care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.” — George Cohan

            So maybe it doesn’t hurt our bottom line after all.
            Happy Thanksgiving!

  • Cindy

    Thanks, Galt! I’ll be pampering and resting my two typing fingers so that they’ll be in full form for Friday’s buying fest.
    Caveat Vendor!

    • SuperGalt

      Sounds good. :D

  • http://deleted BuzzisbackLatte

    I’ll save my list from Amazon until Thursday! This is a great idea!

    • SuperGalt

      Cool. Look forward to seeing you there!

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