The Musical Patriot: Fifth Anniversary

Five years ago this weekend I began a new blog on the relatively new service from Google called Blogspot. It seemed others were getting into the spirit of the times. I decided to join them. This was in the days when George W. Bush was President and all of Congress was under Republican control, as well as a majority on the Supreme Court, which had acted in a clearly partisan fashion earlier in the decade in Bush v. Gore.

I wrote on May 28, 2006:

Welcome.
I begin offering to friends this log of information on events local and beyond. The focus will be on national and world events.

Posted by The Musical Patriot at 6:25 PM

With these simple words I launched an effort which has spanned these tumultuous last years, including a landslide victory for Democrats in 2006 and 2008, with a Democratic President taking charge in early 2009. At a later time, I hope to give more of an overview of the many events dealt with here. This has been a labor of love, one which has actually garnered financial support from several in the last six months through Kachingle, the support group for on-line bloggers.

It is a privilege and an honor to put -- if not pen to paper -- at least word to byte and have my words viewed by hundreds of readers. I hope to be increasingly worthy of this distinct privilege.