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  • Bearman Charity Drive Update 3

    ONLY ONE WEEK LEFT

    Here is another weeks tally for the Charity Challenge. The Charity Challenge, for the uninformed allows you to do things like blogroll me, follow me on twitter, tweet about the challenge or post a blog about it. Details here. Any of those activities would raise money for the local FreeStore Foodbank to help those in need.

    Here is a list of all the activity that was generated in the last week thanks to your efforts. Please let me know if I missed anyone on this list. I know there have been several people who have added me to their Twitter accounts but haven’t updated me here so please do so I can give you credit.

    $10 for Posting about the Challenge:

    $10 for Adding me to their Blog Roll:

    $2 for Following me on Twitter: (if there were any that followed b/c of the challenge let me know)

    $2 for each day You Tweet about the Challenge (up to 5x):

    For a Week Three total of $56 & a Grand Total of $268.  Spread the word so I can make it at least $300 in the last week.  Thank you all.

    If I inadvertantly missed your efforts from last week, please indicate in the comments section so I can correct.

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    Don’t forget your efforts cost me money… so spread the word about my charity challenge. Click the image below for details.

    Bearman,Charity

  • Link to Me and I will Drive Traffic to your Site

    At least that is the intent of a website called alphainventions.com. It came to my attention about 5 months when a few of my posts got 20-30 clicks from this site.

    According to the creator this is how it works:

    If you update or publish your blog at the same time my visitors are browsing blogs in my site then my visitors will get a chance to see your blog in real-time. BAM! (the entire blog is in their face instantly) It’s not even annoying to watch. Is it alpha addicts??

    I also provide a link to your blog in case they want it to open your blog in a new window, or bookmark your blog . The links provides your title, and description to help my visitors get a better understanding on what your blog is about, and get more interested. Alphainventions.com is useful for wordpress.com , typepad.com, spaces.live.com, and blogger.com I love it, and want to grow it like a tree. Yahh!

    To get more traffic from alphainventions.com just keep your blog updated or go to the homepage, and notify readers about your blog. It’s so simple.

    So being the good web citizen I am, I added it to my blog roll figuring anyone that is sending me 20-30 readers should get prominence. Plus I see other bloggers highlighting it.

    Well I haven’t had a single click from it since. Now I don’t fault the creator of it. I think he had the best intentions when he created it. But it became like a Kentucky Grilled Chicken promotion where too many people respond and you can’t figure out how to control demand.

    So…the blog link is now gone. The good news is, as I promised in the title, if you link to ME, I will drive traffic to your site. The bad news is, I will be the only one visiting.

    Follow me via TWITTER updates.

    Don’t forget your efforts cost me money… so spread the word about my charity challenge. Click the image below for details.

    Bearman,Charity

  • Speaking of Charity

    Besides my own charity challenge, Eric over at Soupalaxy has his own thing to raise money for charity. And like mine, it doesn’t cost anything. Go to his blog, look to the right for the ad from Sprint and the Childrens Miracle Network. Click on the “Help Now” button. Watch a Sprint Commercial, rate it, and boom, they donate money courtesy of Eric.

    Sorry for the lack of a new toon yet this week. Actually was on vacation. Already have in mind what I am going to do and hope to have it up either tomorrow night or first thing Thursday.

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    Don’t forget your efforts cost me money… so spread the word about my charity challenge. Click the image below for details.

    Bearman,Charity

  • Bearman Charity Drive Update 2

    Here is another weeks tally for the Charity Challenge. The Charity Challenge, for the uninformed allows you to do things like blogroll me, follow me on twitter, tweet about the challenge or post a blog about it. Details here. Any of those activities would raise money for the local FreeStore Foodbank to help those in need.

    Week 2 wasn’t as good as week one but, I appreciate all those who have continued to spread the word. Keep it going because the challenge runs till the end of June. Here is a list of all the activity that was generated in the last week thanks to your efforts. Please let me know if I missed anyone on this list.

    $10 for Posting about the Challenge:

    $10 for Adding me to their Blog Roll:

    $2 for Following me on Twitter: (if there were any that followed b/c of the challenge let me know)

    • None this week

    $2 for each day You Tweet about the Challenge (up to 5x):

    For a Week Two total of $56 & a Grand Total of $212. Thank you all.

    If I inadvertantly missed your efforts from last week, please indicate in the comments section so I can correct.

    Follow me via TWITTER updates.

    Don’t forget your efforts cost me money… so spread the word about my charity challenge. Click the image below for details.

    Bearman,Charity

  • Bearman Charity Drive Update

    Last week I started the Charity Challenge that allows you to do things like blogroll me, follow me on twitter, tweet about the challenge or post a blog about it.  Details here.  Any of those activities would raise money for the local FreeStore Foodbank to help those in need.

    Well week one was a great success and I thank all of you for your efforts.  Keep it going because the challenge runs till the end of June.  Here is a list of all the activity that was generated thanks to your efforts.  Please let me know if I missed anyone on this list.

    $10 for Posting about the Challenge:

     $10 for Adding me to their Blog Roll:

    $2 for Following me on Twitter: (if there were more that followed b/c of the challenge let me know)

    $2 for each day You Tweet about the Challenge (up to 5x):

     For a Week One Grand Total of $156.  Thank you all.

    If I inadvertantly missed your efforts from last week, please indicate in the comments section so I can correct. 

     

     
    Follow me via TWITTER updates.

    Don’t forget your efforts cost me money… so spread the word about my charity challenge. Click the image below for details.

    Bearman,Charity

  • All Bow to the Great and Powerful BEARMAN

    So last week I said that the far right was taking the wrong tactic with Judge Sotomayor. Here was my suggestion (very Tongue in Cheek) again for those that missed it.

    5 28 09 Bearman Cartoon Abortion Sotomayor

    Well it seems like Rush Limbaugh is a closet fan of mine because new reports show he might actually be for the Judge’s confirmation because…wait for it…of her religion.

    “I can see a possibility of supporting this nomination if I can be convinced that she does have a sensibility toward life in a legal sense,” Limbaugh said during his show.

    In justifying his flip, Limbaugh pointed out that Sotomayor is Catholic and “doesn’t have a clear record on abortion.”

    Hinting that Sotomayor could possibly support overturning Roe v. Wade, Limbaugh said “whoa, it would be huge.”

    Now if I could only predict the stock market.

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    Don’t forget your efforts cost me money… so spread the word about my charity challenge. Click the image below for details.

    Bearman,Charity

  • Quote of the Week

    There is a show in the States with third rate celebs called “I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here”.

    First what qualifies Patti Blagojevich as a Celebrity? I mean that would be like having Matt Damon’s wife on some show. (See my take on Patti’s husband Rob)  I am sure she is a nice woman but come on.  Was some Rock of Love reject not available?

    And no offense to the other people but what is Lou Diamond Philips doing on this show?  I am talking Golden Globe winner LDP.  My money is on him to go all the way just for the coolness factor.

    But the greatest is that the douchebag Spencer Pratt (playing a character or not)  came and left the show several times.  I mean, this guy’s level of entitlement makes Janice Dickenson look like Mother Teresa.

    But the classic is his tirade to NBC programming excecutive Ben Silverman before quitting for the 4th or 5th time. 

    “I’m too rich and I’m too famous to be sitting with these people and cleaning up their shit in the jungle, my man. And this cast is devaluing our fame right now. I’m sitting next to VH1 comedians that I have never even seen before… I thought it was gonna be all celebrities,” Spencer told Ben. “Stars of shows get treated like stars, dude. I’m fucking supposed to be cleaning up John Salley’s shit  in a bucket? Dude! You’ve never cleaned up your own shit let alone taken John Salley’s shit to the creek, have you? Don’t throw me in the jungle and try and make me your little guinea pig torture act.”

     

    Don’t forget as NobblySan says, this is your chance to “bankrupt a fellow blogger” so spread the word about my charity challenge.  Click the image below for details.

    Bearman,Charity

  • Beartoons Charity Drive

    No this isn’t one of those things where I ask you to support my site with a donation or buy raffle tickets

    Readers from early on here will remember back in November I reported on some local bloggers (Cincinnati Blog and Cincinnati Beacon) throwing down challenges to other bloggers to raise money for the FreeStore FoodBank.  The FreeStore does a lot of great things locally to help families in need.

    With so many people out of jobs, I have been fortunate to keep working.   So while I am by no means a rich guy, I felt it was important to do something to help others.  The FreeStore is a great beneficiary because donors tend to forget about them unless there is a holiday coming up.  So in honor of the launch of my new website URL, beartoons.com, and the celebration of another decade type birthday milestone this month, I am issuing this challenge to help raise money.  I will donate the indicated amount for each thing that you do in the month of June:

    $10 – Add http://beartoons.com to your blog roll (for those who don’t already have it)

    $10 – Blog about my challenge to your readers and link back to this entry in your post – http://beartoons.com/2009/06/01/beartoonscharitydrive/

    $2 – Follow me via TWITTER updates. (if you aren’t already)

    $2 – For each Tweet that you include a link back to this challenge (once per day up to 5x)

    If you add me to your blog roll, include this challenge in a post, or start following me via twitter because of this post please indicate in the comments.  If you tweet, just make sure to put @bearmancartoons somewhere in it and I’ll be able to account for it.

    I am going to give a minimum of $100 so if no one takes me up on the challenge, at least someone will benefit with a maximum I am looking to do is $500, which I hope you will help me achieve.  I’ll post a weekly update of the money raised and who did what to raise the money with links back to your site if applicable.

    Bearman,Charity

  • Mark Fiore Animations

    Being someone who likes to draw editorial cartoons that poke fun at both the left and the right politically, I have come across someone who does the same but with animations. (I think it is Flash but not sure…boy I would love to learn that but first there is the $500 program and then trying to learn it so that might be more money for a class…) Anyway, here is one that I enjoy. See them all at his website

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  • 100 Best Movie Lines in 20 Seconds

    Quick post. The Fire Wire has a great entry of a video on the 100 Best Movie LInes in 20 Seconds.   Any of your favorites missing?