It may not be popular among Democrats and environmentalists… but, McCain’s proposed lifting of the ban on offshore drilling is the right move. 

Right now, people in this country are suffering.  This country needs a long-term strategy and a short-term strategy.  Clearly, our long-term strategy should involve a commitment to becoming more reliant on alternative energies, as well as conservation.

But, we should also be thinking about another strategy:  how to get through the next 10 years.  Because, EVEN IF today we had a way to move all of our cars to another fuel source, it would take YEARS for that plan to be implemented.  So, clearly, this is not going to happen any time in the near future.  So, in the alternative, what do you do?

Offshore drilling seems like a good alternative to me - particularly, at a time when increasing prices on food and necessities are driving families into poverty.

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It may not be popular among Democrats and environmentalists… but, McCain’s proposed lifting of the ban on offshore drilling is the right move. 

Right now, people in this country are suffering.  This country needs a long-term strategy and a short-term strategy.  Clearly, our long-term strategy should involve a commitment to becoming more reliant on alternative energies, as well as conservation.

But, we should also be thinking about another strategy:  how to get through the next 10 years.  Because, EVEN IF today we had a way to move all of our cars to another fuel source, it would take YEARS for that plan to be implemented.  So, clearly, this is not going to happen any time in the near future.  So, in the alternative, what do you do?

Offshore drilling seems like a good alternative to me - particularly, at a time when increasing prices on food and necessities are driving families into poverty.

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I have just been in mourning - since I found out the news, yesterday.  I can’t stop watching the coverage.  I just loved Tim Russert so much:  his passion for politics, his passion for life, passion for the Bills.  If I could describe Tim in one word, it was “passion”.  He brought so much to television.  He brought so much to America.  This election and every other national election will never be the same without him.  This country will miss him so much.  He is one of the all-time greats.

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I came across this post on SearchEngineLand.

Apparently, this person was not happy with the McCain website.

Meanwhile, on Obama’s website…

Just add these things to the long list of crap that today’s campaigns have to worry about that they didn’t even have to think of 10 years ago.

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Jen Markwica Wedding

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Tracey and I had a great weekend. We went to a wedding for Jen Markwica, a friend of Tracey’s at TPC Sawgrass, in Jacksonville. We managed to make it to the 17th (”Island Green”) for a little midnight photo shoot.

Good times!

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I found this list, today.  It really took me back.  I don’t necessarily agree with the rankings.  I know you have to include the classics at the top that started it all (Pac-Man, Donkey Kong).  But, I would have had NBA Jam higher than 15.  And, what about Operation Wolf and Kung Fu.  I spent my whole allowance each week on those.  Any other games they left out?

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I pull this one from the pages of “bizarro”.

A Canadian man nearly lost his life when his drunken lover accidentally pierced his heart as she carved a design into his chest during rough sex, reports the Winnepeg Sun. The female university student dodged a prison sentence last week when she and her beau, who has fully recovered, insisted the knife play was consensual. The couple left the courthouse smiling.

Wow, that’s about all I can say.  Have you ever been so drunk and into the sexual moment that you stabbed someone?  If you have, I would love to hear about it… definitely, I would.

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(I couldn’t resist.) Congratulations to Senator Tim Burchett on his upcoming nuptials.

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This has to be one of the more bizarre examples of how technology is impacting our lives:

JACKSONVILLE, Ore. — A pair of hoax ads on Craigslist cost an Oregon man much of what he owned.

The ads popped up Saturday afternoon, saying the owner of a
Jacksonville home was forced to leave the area suddenly and his
belongings, including a horse, were free for the taking, said Jackson
County sheriff’s Detective Sgt. Colin Fagan.

But Robert Salisbury had no plans to leave. The independent
contractor was at Emigrant Lake when he got a call from a woman who had
stopped by his house to claim his horse.

On his way home he stopped a truck loaded down with his work ladders, lawn mower and weed eater.

“I informed them I was the owner, but they refused to give the stuff
back,” Salisbury said. “They showed me the Craigslist printout and told
me they had the right to do what they did.”

The driver sped away after rebuking Salisbury. On his way home he spotted other cars filled with his belongings.

Once home he was greeted by close to 30 people rummaging through his barn and front porch.

The trespassers, armed with printouts of the ad, tried to brush him
off. “They honestly thought that because it appeared on the Internet it
was true,” Salisbury said. “It boggles the mind.

Are you kidding me? These imbeciles tried to defend themselves with “but, it says in this ad I can take all of your stuff.” It frightens me that these imbeciles walk the streets. And, yes, they can be in a car next to yours. You just never know.

I guess it frightens me, too, that these people would say that because something appears on the Internet, it must be true. A shocking statement of our society.

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Most blogs out there aren’t really concerned about SEO.  But, come on!  Who doesn’t like showing up in Google?!?  Seeing that these issues are my line of work… occasionally, I like to philosophy about them….

Most traditional marketing firms struggled to embrace interactive marketing like my 90 year grandfather who still wrecks his golf cart once a year would struggle with a Porsche. But even the most cutting edge SEO firms have trouble grasping SEO. “Treating SEO like a media buy”, said Bill Ross Of Rankbetterseo.com, a SEO Web Design Company In Chicago.

In the past, marketing agencies bought “media” – radio spots, TV ads and some had even ventured into Google Adwords. It was a predictable routine. Marketing firms bought an audience count associated with broadcasts or readership. In the case of Adwords there was an audience count for each keyword phrase. But marketing firms could associate a demographic to a keyword phrases only in the rarest of instances

This is where things began to unravel.

But marketing companies still understood a basic Ad agency law: “he who spends the most wins.” This made Google Adwords familiar and usable even if it was not well understood, said Bill Ross.

But natural search and SEO was ruled by a different law: “he who is most relevant to the internet as a whole wins.” This came at a time when telemarketers burned up the phone lines and irritated even the CEO’s of marketing agencies during their dinner hour. Marketing messages had become invasive and reached the fevered pitch of a local car dealerships TV ad. This was a time when being the loudest and flashiest and buying the right spot made you the market place winner.

Oh, how times are a-changin’.

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