Midterm Elections 2010

Midterm Elections 2010; Will we finally get it right?


With the midterm elections around the corner as of this blog post, I am hopeful that we as a nation, state, county, and city may at least get it right in more than 50% of elections.
What I mean by “right” is not to vote for necessarily a Republican, but a candidate or ballot initiative that clearly understands true Conservative American values. By true conservative that does not mean going back to the do nothing status quo of backing the often corrupt banking and insurance industries while ignoring family businesses that are the back bone of this nation such as many RINO Republicans like Greg Walden (R- Representative, OR).
See: Greg Walden, RINO Republican

The only reason the narcissist socialist, borderline communist, pathological liar like Obama could even come into power with his lies, was he offered “Hope & Change” for the many persons sick and tired of RINO hypocrites (again using persons such as Greg Walden or Gordon Anderson), that do not understand true Conservative values. See: List of Obama Failures
True Conservatism, Conservative

Obviously the media are doing all they can to keep the socialists in power, even attacking RINO republicans such as Meg Whitman, who although I do not care for many of her views, she has at least played by the liberal playbook as per following the laws of the land when it comes to dealing with our illegal immigration problem, yet has been slammed by the media and may lose to an extreme loon by the name of Jerry Brown (ex Governor “Moon Beam”).

Sadly in my State (Oregon), Jim Huffman is running a terrible campaign letting Senator Wyden get away with his socialist anti-business, anti-freedom, anti-brain activity votes for Obama Care, the totally socialist (& brain dead) Cap & Trade Bill, and the bail outs & government take over of business.
I seriously doubt Huffman is going to pull this off since he either will not or cannot counter Wyden’s lame claims of how he has helped Oregon (despite his desperation to destroy America with his votes).

Also in Southern Oregon we have Greg Walden spending a lot of money in a race where he has no discernible opposition (this money would be much better spent with another campaign such as Huffman’s, which is why I never contribute to the Republican Party).
I believe Walden is worried many will finally see that he is not the conservative he claims to be, rather an arrogant politician with no interest the “little guy” of true conservatism. While I doubt this will happen, I hope (& pray) that many voters in Oregon’s 2nd Congressional District will “do the right thing” and either right in a candidate or write in “Other”.

In another Southern Oregon congressional race, Peter DeFazio (whom I had always have thought to have a little more integrity than many of the Socialist Democrats such as Reid/Pelosi) is running a sleazy campaign against Art Robinson rather than defend his own record such as his vote for Obama Care.
In a positive note, DeFazio at least went against the brain dead, science bending socialists in his party by voting against “Cap & Trade”.
If Peter DeFazio has any integrity left, he would run on his record and let the chips fall where they may.

Finally, if the Tea Party and the other mixed bag of conservatives and RINO Republicans push the socialists now running this country out of power, I sure hope they finally take these actions:

• Have a spine and stand up to pork spending,

• Stand up to the Insurance and Banking industry, while standing with small businesses by not giving tax breaks to companies such as Home Depot while ignoring small business that pay better and often treat their staff better and most importantly are the back bone of this Nation. Are you reading this Grants Pass City Council?
See: Grants Pass Poor Morals

• Stand up to the liberals pals in the legal profession (passing badly needed Tort Reform),
• Maybe at least attempt to understand the spirit of Luke 10:25-37 (the parable of the good Samaritan), many RINOs need to read this one.

• Stand up to pro-illegal immigration lobby
See: Arizona Illegal Immigration Law

• Stand up FOR Israel

• Stop listening to media and liberal definitions of what conservatism is and follow true conservatism.
See: Media Distortions, Lies
& List of Media Failures, Lies

• Perform badly needed health insurance reform, but not the anti-small business, pro big government take over of Obama Care. We need tort reform, ease of regulations, all the while forcing insurance companies to be responsible and show some morals. I personally do not think health insurance is a right, but it should be available to those who seek it responsibly, which in many cases it is not. As well a person should not stay in a poor work environment (such as BiMart) for the reason for health insurance, it should be affordable portable (which it is not, despite some political claims).

Heath Care Reform, Period/ Interim Life Expectancy, etc.

 

Heath Care Reform, Period/ Interim Life Expectancy,
Democrats such as Pelosi, Republicans such as Greg Walden, Suggestion/Ideas, more


The debate on heath care reform in full swing, with Obama, Reid and Pelosi leading the way with lies to try and push through reforms with little disclosure of what is contained within the different proposals.
Do not get me wrong, I think something needs to be done (this includes reform of the insurance industry), as often many self employed persons have been given the shaft by dishonest insurance companies with such statements as “pre-existing conditions” (that often are not even based on correct medical reports!)
However a takeover by the economy by the US government is far from the answer!

Let me address some corrections to pundits and some thoughts I have about this problem.

• I heard a comment by a caller to the Sean Hannity show state in response to Hannity’s point to look at the USPS and its inefficiency; “Fedex and UPS managed to compete with USPS dominance, why shouldn’t insurance companies with a Federal insurance plan”.

First of all the deck was not stacked against Fedex or UPS the way the insurance companies as the Health Reform plans would be.

Second as an international retail shipper, I know that USPS (along with foreign postal services) does have the deck stacked against Fedex/UPS by allowing much lower costs and more importantly requiring harmonized codes, long forms, custom brokers, etc. that increase costs (including the cost of time).
The result is shipping via USPS is almost the only way we or our customers can afford, except for a few that are so frustrated with postal service destruction of packages, lack of tracking, etc that they will pay the much higher fees.

The bottom line is when the playing field is even, fine, but this is not the case with the Senate and congressional proposals that will likely lead to businesses bailing out of private insurers, as well as IRS enforcement of extreme penalties for non participation (and FEW INTELLIGENT persons can argue the EXTREME corruption within the IRS)

• Life expectancy based on age; this is where some pundits on the right side of the aisle have argued to look at comparisons between the US and the UK (Great Britain; which has socialized medicine).
Using male expectancy at birth the UK (77.16) leads the USA (74.81), HOWEVER when you look at a male at age 60 (whom has made it past other factors that include accidents, homicide, etc.), the gap is almost non existent.
The adjusted life expectancy from age 60 for a USA male is 80.42 while a UK male is 81.06.
What this indicates is that the better medical care in the USA closes this gap.

Please reference these US and UK government websites for further information (based on 2005):
*Interim life tables; UK
*Period Life Table; USA

• I also should note that from my perspective, rarely does the governments get it right, even with good intentions.
My own dealing with DHS/DCS (Department of Children’s Services), shows an agency that may have good intentions, but is so corrupt with an anti family agenda that they “rarely can get it right”.
Reference: Oregon DHS, Department of Children’s Services, Abuse of Authority

• That said, the Republicans with their arrogance towards many of their constituents does not bode well for trust of many of them to get it right either.
Greg Walden of Oregon is a good example of a republican I would never vote for, he and his staff would rather condescend to person such as myself about understanding accounting (I never got less than an A in accounting in either high school or college), rather than correct major flaws in another corrupt government run organization; “the Food Stamps Program” which is skewed against anyone self employed.
Reference: Greg Walden; Republican Integrity or lack there of

Suggestions

• Allow insurance agencies to compete across state lines

• Do not allow insurance companies to only insure the “cream”. In other words if insurance companies want to play they MUST insure all or give up rights to insure ANY (and this includes all forms of insurance such as auto, home so that if they want to stay in business they cannot play the games that they so often do at others expense).
This is not to say they must charge equal charges any more than a driver with multiple accidents should get the same rate someone with a perfect rate does. However this is not a perfect analogy since poor driving is a choice, in many cases contracting a disease is not (although not in all cases here either)

• Tort Reform; correct the many problems with outrageous lawsuits that drive up medical costs (& not just for doctors, but medical manufacturers).
This reform should include hospitals that cannot even manage to diagnose the most basic of conditions and then fail to bill the insurance companies and then sue the patient later to make up for their incompetance.
This actually happens, such as with the poorly managed Curry General Hospital in Gold Beach Oregon.

There needs to be a public binding arbitration to manage these low quality medical providers.

• Allow both a government backed tax free medical saving plan combined with government subsidies possibly with a 1% employee and 1% employer FDIC increase (this is where I actually would support a tax increase). This would be used to allow self employed, uninsured, persons with so-called “pre-existing conditions” a chance to by real health insurance.

This “Government Aid/Subsidy” would NOT be a government option, rather simply a way of providing someone who has lost their job, is self employed (yet below the poverty level via real accounting methods unlike the dishonest food stamp program), etc. aid with purchasing/keeping existing insurance plans.

• Full portability of insurance, this should include a similar grace period (like the 6 months of unemployment) regardless of reason of discharge from an employer (except for a crime).
This would improve many lives and allow those stuck in cr## jobs the ability to leave as MANY persons remain in jobs only to keep insurance. This not only can degrade health via constant stress, but also keeps potential great employees out of the job market or even entrepreneurship that can lead to a better economy only because a person fears to “move on” and thus loose health insurance coverage (often moving on means leaving for a small company without health insurance, but with a lot of personal growth potential).

In my opinion, losing a job or being self employed should not mean lack of ability to seek medical care.
In fact a small business going out of business for medical bankruptcy hurts everyone, including those employed by this company (including potential future employees and tax revenue lost).
My personal business link:
http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/

In Summary; these are just a few humble suggestions from a very small voice crying in the wilderness that unfortunately likely never to be heard from those in power, either on the left or the right side of the aisle (politically speaking). Sadly their agendas are too much for them to take an honest look at these suggestions.
I might also add that in my circle of business and friend contacts that these suggestions are not mine alone, but those of a very large silent group of Americans that have been left behind by their government representatives and the extremely corrupt media.
Media Corruption articles from this website:
Dishonesty of the Media; Truth, Lies, & Distortions
List of Media Lies/Dishonesty & Failures

Google Lies, Dishonesty, Plagiarism; Adsense, Adwords

 

Google Dishonesty, Plagiarism, with Adsense, Adwords keyword bids, & More


Also See this article from May 2012:
Google IS Evil, Content Plagiarism

Or this article from 2014:
Google Adwords Manipulation of Results; Failure in Advertising

This page updated 5/3/14

Update 1/25/11; I performed a test of Google using my wife and two employees names, addresses and unique emails. I requested a Google Adsense account for these websites: *Aquarium Information, *Aquarium Answers, *UV Bulbs, & *Misti King Family Blog. The first three are regularly plagiarized and have very unique content (especially Aquarium Answers), however the forth is a more ordinary blog (no offense to Misti), that does not have nearly the content nor is it plagiarized. Guess what? Google denied the three that they are already placing Adsense on plagiarized web sites without legal permission while allowing the third. If this does not speak volumes about the corruption and dishonesty that is rampant at Google, nothing will. Sadly the news media and others love affair with this allegedly EXTREMELY CORRUPT LIBERAL CORPORATION guarantees nothing will ever come of this. I also doubt that any lawyers with integrity will ever step forward and take on a class action lawsuit against this disgusting company

Although Google is the darling of the drive-by-media (which has about as much credibility any more as Osama Bin Laden has in teaching others to love their neighbors), they have actually gotten worse with their hypocritical use of Adwords/Adsense on illegal blogs/websites that use copyrighted articles to make money for both them and Google.
Reference: List of News Media Lies

What Google is doing is nothing new and not personal against me, this is how they treat all small businesses and individuals and why they are the multi billion dollar company they are, by going after and taking money from the little guy that cannot afford lawyers. Say what you will about Bill Gate's business practices, at least he has gone after those who can afford lawyers and to get the medias attention (I will also point out he is the #1 contributor to Autism research, etc. in the world).

Recent Google Searches have yielded many sites, but a web site in particular has ripped multiple articles from these web pages I own/copyrighted:
*Aquarium Answers Posts
*Aquarium Information articles.
*Aquarium Lighting Article

In a search using excerpts from these and other researched and popular articles, helped me find this article chock full of Google Adsense/Adwords adverts

Here is the specific article plagiarized from me:
http://www.newportme.com/and-nanometers/aquarium-lighting-wattage-kelvin-and-nanometers.php (Please note that this url was not renewed, so my plagiarized content no longer displays on this particular website)

What is especially sad is that Adsense recently denied my article sites for content, and what makes this even more sad and blatently dishonest is that my articles are constantly researched and updated for accuracy of content, which these articles have not.
I have written many departments at Google and have gotten either no reply or lame dishonest answers such as Google stands by only offering up ads on the highest quality sites that have been checked by Google. WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP, and sadly many buy this load and continue to think Google is this company with the highest of integrity when the opposite is true!

I have spent the better part of 3 decades in hands on and research of outside sources to write my many articles, as well I have worked hard at providing often hard to find or unique products such as hard to find UV Bulbs & T5/T8 straight/standard UV Bulbs only to see Google take advantage of this to their dishonest gain.
Sources: http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/UVCReplacementLamp.html &
http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/T5T8UVBulbs.html

What Google does is to provide nice products such as Google Docs, email and many other first rate services (although I beg to differ as to the quality of their searches since they are weighted heavily by the old boy network at DMOZ).
Source:
http://www.fish-as-pets.com/2008/06/aquarium-forum-hall-of-shame-2.html

I will admit that this is a blogger hosted blog, however it should be noted that I have been with Blogger for some time and that Google bought them out as they have many other good services.
How Google pays for this is their dishonest and corrupt business practices such as screwing the little guys such as myself that cannot afford a lawyer or a class action lawsuit that Google deserves (I doubt there are too many Lawyers with the Huevos Grandes to take on Google anyway).

Just in case Google does take action about this site in particular, here are a few screen shots that show just a little of the ripped articles and the hypocritical Google Adwords being run there:
Please click to enlarge



AdWords Corruption:

Another aspect of Google Adwords/Adsense corruption is they Ad Scores. Google employees will not even be honest and tell you why an ad score is low, rather they hide behind a corrupt rating algorithm that is meant to score Ads low so as to charge more per click.
As an example, the search term "UV Bulb" & "UV Bulbs" gave me a score of 3 even though both search terms are contained there in. As well the landing page has both terms relevanty spread over the EXTREMELY content rich page with links to further related information NO OTHER site in Google Adwords provided.

Worse, a website that came up ahead of my ad took three clicks to reach the very popular G23 9 Watt UV bulb, and even then on a very content poor website (this even with a cost per click that is 40% of profit, which of coarse at normal CTR of 5% does not even come close to paying for the ad).
See product link:
http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/UVCReplacementLamp.html#9wattg23

Come on Google, who are you fooling other than Obamanites??

What others can do:

Hopefully someday others, especially either the masses or those with the power to inspire the masses such as the media or popular TV/Radio show hosts like Rush Limbaugh will put their money where their mouths are and call Google to the mat (and stop using the vomit inducing phrase “to Google something” instead of simply to search).
Maybe then Google as a company will rise to the quality of many of its services instead of the bottom feeder this company is currently (ask Steve Jobs his opinion of Google of late for ripping off his iPhone platform).

If a basic search engine is desired that does not collect your personal information and is what Google USED TO BE 10 years ago, consider:
DuckDuckGo

I have sent emails to many in my business and friends contact, as well I have urged members of my aquarium/pond forums to switch to using Yahoo or Bing as their home page instead of Google. I know of at least a couple dozen persons who have made this switch, which admittedly a drop in the bucket, but if enough other businesses with similar experiences start similar campaigns and those who received these forwarded emails do likewise, this can make a difference and Google will take notice (although in their extreme arrogance they may not figure out why).

As well Microsoft and Yahoo need to stop taking Google head on with their search engines, as although I strongly beg to disagree that Google is the better search engine (especially since they use DMOZ to weight many sites and DMOZ is nothing more than a good ole boy network of late), although sadly most in this country are convinced that Google is 'good'.
In my opinion the other search engines need to other unique services such as Google Apps, Docs, better blogging, less buggy email (are you listening Yahoo?), etc; maybe then many will switch just to use these services for which Google clearly is the king of for the time being.

Finally boycott websites that are nothing more than Google hacks such as Web Pro News, whose heavy handed editing removes posts that expose the truths about Googles business practices (I know as I used to comment there).
This goes especially Web Pro News writer Chris Crum who is so in love with Google it is down right pathetic. Chris Crum could give George Stephanopoulos a run for his money as to lack of integrity in journalism IMHO!

OTHER GOOGLE ARTICLES:

*Testing Google new Panda, Farmer Algorithm; Verdict, FAIL

*Google Love Affair

Google Adsense Dishonesty, corruption in Adwords content

For a newer more relevant post in this subject, please see this article/blog post:
Google Dishonesty, Plagiarism, with Adsense, Adwords, & More

I have never seen good results with our Adwords content ads and as I have investigated and searched the Google network I know why, the content they (Google) placed these ads on is very poor.
I have found ads for Shell wind Chimes on blogs with nothing more than some alluding to wind in their blog. But the worst part is quality sites such as my own (I know this from VERY positive feedback) are turned down for Adsense ads.

My website has a lot of content, good PR and has been around a while. Apparently Google figures there is a better chance of clicks on these sites as frustrated readers are looking for more than someone’s life editorial, which is why my 'clicks' are high but conversions are almost nil.

This is business corruption at its worst and quite frankly if it were not for the fact that Google is the 800 lb. Gorilla where by I must be present with adwords to be noticed in searches.
I would not advertise here at all, and at that I try and keep my advertising budget to the bare minimums with Google based on Google' business practices and place more ads elsewhere where there are more business morals in place.

But then I have also had to face the fact that my Adwords search ads do have better exposure. I also should note that even where my organic listing are high such as with my Aquarium Lighting Information, UV Bulbs, or Aquarium Silicone page, the Adwords listing also tends to boost my conversion there too. Reference Links:
*http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/Aquarium_Lighting.html
*http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/UVCReplacementLamp.html
*http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/AquariumSilicone.html

What bothers me too, is that with so much corruption in business (and other aspects of life, from Religion to Government), is that nobody gives a #@1# about Google's business moral, or lack there of.
In another blog I commented about the fact that Google has gone to one extreme of business management (as many business treat there employees like dirt), they tend to treat their employees as royalty to a point that they look down on anyone who questions anything about the "great and mighty Google" when I have tried to fix things from Google Adwords, to Blogger, to Google CheckOut, to the most corrupt bunch at Google; ADSENSE.

By the way I think the ideas behind many of the before mentioned Google products are good, especially Blogger and Google CheckOut, it is just how Google handles them and treats customers.

In this comment I made, someone came to the defense of Adsense claiming how many little people have made a living or at least part time revenue from Adsense.

My answer; so what!!
What about businesses such as mine that have been ripped off in the content network and also have had Adsense accounts taken from them (including pending earnings) after Adsense disabled their account when someone got bored somewhere and decided to go on a clicking frenzy?

Google has the technology to detect these fraudulent clicks computer addresses and remove them and needs not do the heavy handed disabling of a legitimate business, which of course Google Profits from.
I guarantee you if someone went crazy and started clicking a high PR pet site of Googles such as http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/, Google would NEVER disable this account (which I can bet delivers a lot of revenue to Google Adsense).

Also I have had many of my Aquarium research articles ripped off by others only to display Google Adwords and these plagiarized articles ONLY place high in Google Search, not MSN or Yahoo (go figure, huh) which spot these rip offs much better than Google.

I could go on more about the many lies as to link relevance an other aspects of Googles search engine which are all directed at maximizing profit at ALL costs, no matter how dishonest the results.
I will someday post more about this subject.

This post was found at this blog: "Aaron Swartz; sociologist in exile". His blog "Raw Thought" has some interesting reading and comments, not many I agree with but they are worth while to see other points of view.

The post I found eye opening was "The Google Life": how Google keeps employees by treating them like kids"


Copyright 2009 Carl Strohmeyer

The latest aquatic forum I joined, this one has great people!
http://www.everything-aquatic.com/