I read two stories this week about women who were detained at the border when they told officials they were entering the country on business related to blogging. One was an American going into Canada, the other a Canadian coming to the US.
It seems that Mom Blogging got red-flagged by The Department of Homeland Security. They don’t think it’s a legitimate profession. Didn’t they get the memo from the FTC?
I mean if the FTC can regulate you, and fine you, then you must be legitimate, right?
I guess we can take comfort in the fact that border officials were doing their jobs, watching out for all of us, and attempting to stop nefarious activity.
But are we Mom Bloggers really so dangerous that they’re profiling us now?
Well, there was that incident last year when someone in our community threatened extortion over a pair of free Crocs.
So, yeah, maybe some of us could make the jump to international terrorism more easily than others.
Perhaps this just means that collectively we’ve arrived. They know we number in the thousands. They’ve seen us take down large corporations with our keyboards. They are aware of the power we hold, and they fear it. If we were to ban together and mobilize…
I mean, we have stopped the world from rotating on it’s axis, shut down Twitter a time or two with our parties.
There are warning signs to look for if you suspect any of your fellow Mom Bloggers of being terrorists:
- She hosts a weekly carnival called Why Democracy Doesn’t Work for Me Wednesday.
- She has an E-book available for download entitled $5 Molotov Cocktails for Dummies.
- She asks all her readers to boycott companies that make American flags, and market them to children.
- She posts photos of her toddler cuddling an AK-47.
- She’s always tweeting with the hashtag #Death2Infidels.
I’m more than a little suspicious of Blissdom Canada now. And Bloggy Bootcamp? I mean it’s in the name. Bootcamp.
I’m sure they’re both fronts for terrorist training camps for Mom Bloggers.
Somebody get me The New York Times on Skype.
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About Colleen Stout
Bet they didn’t get the memo about blogging …hehe. Maybe someone needs to memo the border patrol, CIA, FBI, etc about the definitions of the word and that we are a force to be reckoned with now…muahahahahahaha. Hehe. Really, all we want is some swag, right? JK…sort of
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Mom Spark Reply:
July 20th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Ha! (swag)
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Monica~MommyBrain Reply:
August 4th, 2010 at 7:49 am
OMG I just snorted… LOL… That was just too funny… Reminds me of those Jeff Foxworthy jokes…
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Oh, please. Clearly these were men. Otherwise they’d know that between taking care of our kids and homes, keeping up with Twitter and Facebook, chatting with brands and – oh – actually writing, we don’t have time for terrorist activities.
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This is too funny – people can be crazy!!! Cute post!!
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haha. This was exactly what I needed to get through the afternoon. Maybe they are on to something though – Mommy Bloggers can be very dangerous if you tick them off and should be feared by all! It’s the new mommy mafia.
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I would have thought that the government would have checked us bloggers out by now. I remember hearing a story about the FBI or CIA or some such organization sending people to go under cover to check out SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) groups because they carry swords and hold combat “tournaments”. They found out that they are a bunch of history geeks, who get together, dress up in medieval clothes and pretend they are historical characters (a little more accurate than a Renaissance Festival.) Basically, that they were mostly harmless.
Good grief! I still have swords from my Renaissance Festival Performer Days AND I blog! I bet I’m on a list.
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WOW! Thanks for the thought interesting article. Who know? I will check out your blog site. Feel free to view mine at http://mommy36.blogspot.com/
Thanks,
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Thanks for the great article!
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Amazing post, Colleen. I think you were referring to the “FTC”, so I edited that part just now.
Seriously, hilarious. “Why Democracy Doesn’t Work for Me Wednesday.”
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LOL. This post is a riot. There are just a lot of people in high places finding stupid things with which to justify their jobs in security of our Nation and probably other Nations as well.
They need to be looking at the real possible criminals. Mom bloggers really do not qualify unless they might have some of the post titles or pictures as you mentioned in your funny post. I haven’t come across a mom blogger like that yet.
I have come across a few that want border protection and laws to protect our borders, which should be a good thing, right?
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Yikes… I better be careful since I cross the border all the time and tell them I’m a Mom Blogger.
Very funny post though… too bad border officials do not have a sense of humor.
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GREAT…Now I have to change the name of my upcoming E-Book. Think anyone would buy “Napalm for Dummies?”
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I’m just testing something…wondering why my last blog post isn’t showing up. I have commentluv too? We’ll see if it does this time.
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Okay, after a bit of distress and experimentation I think I figured it out…even though Commenluv is checked, I have to uncheck it to use it. Doesn’t make sense to me, but I’ll see if it works.
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Ah man.
They’ve totally figured out that bloggy boot camp IS actually training mom bloggers to take over the world…..muuuhahahahahaha
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