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June 19, 2009 - Friday 

Current mood:  angry
Category: News and Politics
I'm a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you're willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now. You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would horribly feel so disenfranchised by both major political parties. What kind of nut job am I? Will you please tell me? 

Well, these are briefly my views and issues for which I seek representation:

One, illegal immigration. I want you to stop coddling illegal immigrants and secure our borders. Close the underground tunnels. Stop the violence and the trafficking in drugs and people. No amnesty, not again. Been there, done that, no resolution. P.S., I'm not a racist. This isn't to be confused with legal immigration.

Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it. We told you no, but you did it anyway. I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze, repeal.

Three: Czars, I want the circumvention of our checks and balances stopped immediately. Fire the czars. No more czars. Government officials answer to the process, not to the president. Stop trampling on our Constitution and honor it.
Four, cap and trade. The debate on global warming is not over. There is more to say.
Five, universal healthcare. I will not be rushed into another expensive decision. Don't you dare try to pass this in the middle of the night and then go on break. Slow down!

Six, growing government control. I want states rights and sovereignty fully restored. I want less government in my life, not more. Shrink it down. Mind your own business. You have enough to take care of with your real obligations. Why don't you start there.

Seven, ACORN. I do not want ACORN and its affiliates in charge of our 2010 census. I want them investigated. I also do not want mandatory escrow fees contributed to them every time on every real estate deal that closes. Stop the funding to ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial audits and investigations. I do not trust them with taking the census over with our taxpayer money. I don't trust them with our taxpayer money. Face up to the allegations against them and get it resolved before taxpayers get any more involved with them. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, hello. Stop protecting your political buddies. You work for us, the people. Investigate.

Eight, redistribution of wealth. No, no, no. I work for my money. It is mine. I have always worked for people with more money than I have because they gave me jobs. That is the only redistribution of wealth that I will support. I never got a job from a poor person. Why do you want me to hate my employers? Why ‑‑ what do you have against shareholders making a profit?

Nine, charitable contributions. Although I never got a job from a poor person, I have helped many in need. Charity belongs in our local communities, where we know our needs best and can use our local talent and our local resources. Butt out, please. We want to do it ourselves.

Ten, corporate bailouts. Knock it off. Sink or swim like the rest of us. If there are hard times ahead, we'll be better off just getting into it and letting the strong survive. Quick and painful. Have you ever ripped off a Band‑Aid? We will pull together. Great things happen in America under great hardship. Give us the chance to innovate. We cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us.

Eleven, transparency and accountability. How about it? No, really, how about it? Let's have it. Let's say we give the buzzwords a rest and have some straight honest talk. Please try ‑‑ please stop manipulating and trying to appease me with clever wording. I am not the idiot you obviously take me for. Stop sneaking around and meeting in back rooms making deals with your friends. It will only be a prelude to your criminal investigation. Stop hiding things from me.

Twelve, unprecedented quick spending. Stop it now.

Take a breath. Listen to the people. Let's just slow down and get some input from some nonpoliticians on the subject. Stop making everything an emergency. Stop speed reading our bills into law. I am not an activist. I am not a community organizer. Nor am I a terrorist, a militant or a violent person. I am a parent and a grandparent. I work. I'm busy. I'm busy. I am busy, and I am tired. I thought we elected competent people to take care of the business of government so that we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have a little recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue our personal goals, cut our lawn, wash our cars on the weekends and be responsible contributing members of society and teach our children to be the same all while living in the home of the free and land of the brave.

I entrusted you with upholding the Constitution. I believed in the checks and balances to keep from getting far off course. What happened? You are very far off course. Do you really think I find humor in the hiring of a speed reader to unintelligently ramble all through a bill that you signed into law without knowing what it contained? I do not. It is a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you. It is a slap in the face. I am not laughing at your arrogance. Why is it that I feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision about my own life and how I would live it but you should expect that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our children. We did not want the TARP bill. We said no. We would repeal it if we could. I am sure that we still cannot. There is such urgency and recklessness in all of the recent spending.
From my perspective, it seems that all of you have gone insane. I also know that I am far from alone in these feelings. 

Do you honestly feel that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic Americans? We want it to stop. We want to put the brakes on everything that is being rushed by us and forced upon us. We want our voice back. You have forced us to put our lives on hold to straighten out the mess that you are making. We will have to give up our vacations, our time spent with our children, any relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot afford to spend on you to bring our concerns to Washington. Our president often knows all the right buzzword is unsustainable. Well, no kidding. How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus group cost to come up with that word? We don't want your overpriced words. Stop treating us like we're morons.

We want all of you to stop focusing on your reelection and do the job we want done, not the job you want done or the job your party wants done. You work for us and at this rate I guarantee you not for long because we are coming. We will be heard and we will be represented. You think we're so busy with our lives that we will never come for you? We are the formerly silent majority, all of us who quietly work , pay taxes, obey the law, vote, save money, keep our noses to the grindstone and we are now looking up at you. You have awakened us, the patriotic spirit so strong and so powerful that it had been sleeping too long. 

You have pushed us too far. Our numbers are great. They may surprise you. For every one of us who will be there, there will be hundreds more that could not come. Unlike you, we have their trust. We will represent them honestly, rest assured. They will be at the polls on voting day to usher you out of office. We have cancelled vacations. We will use our last few dollars saved. We will find the representation among us and a grassroots campaign will flourish. We didn't ask for this fight. But the gloves are coming off. We do not come in violence, but we are angry. You will represent us or you will be replaced with someone who will. There are candidates among us when hewill rise like a Phoenix from the ashes that you have made of our constitution.

Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian. Understand this. We don't care. Political parties are meaningless to us. Patriotic Americans are willing to do right by us and our Constitution and that is all that matters to us now. We are going to fire all of you who abuse power and seek more. It is not your power. It is ours and we want it back. We entrusted you with it and you abused it. You are dishonorable. You are dishonest. As Americans we are ashamed of you. You have brought shame to us. If you are not representing the wants and needs of your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of your party, you will be fired. Did you hear? We no longer care about your political parties. You need to be loyal to us, not to them. Because we will get you fired and they will not save you. If you do or can represent me, my issues, my views, please stand up. Make your identity known. You need to make some noise about it. Speak up. I need to know who you are. If you do not speak up, you will be herded out with the rest of the sheep and we will replace the whole damn congress if need be one by one. We are coming. Are we coming for you? Who do you represent? What do you represent? Listen. Because we are coming. We the people are coming. 
June 17, 2009 - Wednesday 

Current mood:  betrayed
Where were you when California died?

I was born late in the year 1940, in San Jose, California, and no, I cannot tell you what it was like back then.

I can, however, tell you what it was like five years later. I could also offer you glimpses of what it was like to be 4 or 5 years old during World War II, but that's another story.

1255 Pine Avenue, corner of Cottle, Willow Glen

This is the part I want to share. My brother and I spent our early years living in my grandfather's home in Willow Glen. It's still there – a "heritage home" now – at 1255 Pine Avenue, on the corner of Cottle and Pine.

Mom was busy. She, along with millions of American women, was building things… big, heavy, nasty things. She built LSTs (Landing Ship Tracked) for a company called FMC – Food Machinery Corporation, and when she wasn't building munitions for FMC, she was building munitions for some other outfit I no longer remember.

Mom was Rosie the Riveter, God bless her memory, and we didn't see a whole lot of her while the war raged. Like her sisters, she gave up her time for her country, but we were too young to understand what was at stake. Mom was a voice on the radio, or a wispy ghost who tucked us in long after the sun had gone down.

She was an amorphous Goddess we neither knew nor understood.

That's another story, too.

Across the street from my grandfather's home, there was a cherry orchard. I think, but cannot attest, that it was spread over at least 320 acres. My brother Bill and I used to sneak across the street with brown paper grocery bags… there were no plastic ones back then, let alone supermarkets that needed them… and steal enough cherries to fill them up.

We were accomplished thieves.

We brought these plump bags of (mostly) Royal Anne and Bing cherries to our grandmother, she would ask us where they came from, although she knew full well the answer.

We would offer up patently ridiculous fairy tales, and she would make pies, jams and jellies which delighted us no end.

My brother says that the orchardist surrendered the first two rows of cherry trees, which stood like sentries on the edge of his domain, to the 4 and 5 year old pirates who plundered his treasures.

I cannot say, because I was simply too young to recall such truths, but I can still recall what it was like to climb into those loving trees, brown bag in hand, and plunder whatever I could.

Bill and I were consummate cherry thieves.

That was a long time ago, and, although I could waste hours of your time blathering about the Santa Clara Valley between 1944 and 1960, I won't. It is clearly not of any importance to anyone, anywhere, particularly Californians, who seem to have no appreciation whatsoever for what once was.

Most of the people who are capable of remembering California, let alone the Santa Clara Valley back then, no longer have an audience who gives a damn. All we can do is weep into our beer (or, in my case, Chardonnay), bemoan the absence of respect, and thank God we got out when we did.

Endless acres of apricot, cherry, plum, pear and peach trees simply disappeared. Greed replaced common sense, and we destroyed one of the most beautiful places on earth, only to replace it with those ticky-tacky houses my beloved father helped to create.
What on EARTH were we thinking?

Where were YOU when they mowed down the fruit trees and replaced them with 1200 square foot "California Ranchers?"

Where were you when Lick Observatory, on Mount Hamilton, obscured by smog, could no longer be seen?

Where were YOU when they paved the Santa Clara Valley?

Where were WE when they replaced the clean, apricot-scented air with a disgusting brownish yellow cloud of sewer gas and changed the name of the corpse to the "Silicon Valley?"

California's bankrupt, they say. Welfare programs may not simply be "cut," they may be eliminated in their entirety. Schools may be closed, competent teachers dismissed, and an entire generation of California children dumped on the dung heap of financial stupidity.

I weep for the children, not only because California can no longer afford to teach them, but because they cannot steal cherries from the orchards which no longer exist, and because the vineyards no longer grow the grapes which made the wine. I weep because the children have not experienced the heady ecstasy created by the scent of fresh apricots drying in the California sun.

To those of you who do not recall the mineral water spring at Alum Rock, or the vineyards of Los Gatos and Cupertino, let alone the scent of clean air, I extend my regrets.

My California died in the Sixties, and will never return.

Where were you back then?
March 19, 2009 - Thursday 

Current mood:  angry
It seems more like business as usual in Washington these days, with the Obama administration in collusion with Congress to cover up responsibility for the AIG debacle...

Senator Dodd lied a few days ago when he insisted he had had nothing to do with the now infamous clause which permitted obscenities like the $160 million dollar AIG bonuses.

Treasury officials remain mum - not one of them has the balls to admit that he was ordered to get that clause inserted in the bailout bill... and they, of course, work for Timothy F. Geithner, who in turn, duh, works for Saint "change you can believe in" Obama.

Has President Obama condemned the reality that a United States Senator, and a damned high ranking one at that, lied on CNN, while the entire world watched?

No, he has not.

Has President Obama taken ANY action to deal with the Derivatives fiasco?

No, he has not. (Yesterday's FED announcement of their intent to buy up $750 Billion dollars worth of mortgage-backed securities was a drop in the bucket.)

Has President Obama spoken out about Speaker Pelosi's comment that enforcing United States Immigration laws is un-American?

Gee, no, he has not.

Imagine! The Speaker of the House of Representatives states that enforcing the law is UN-AMERICAN, and the President of the United States doesn't say a damned word.

It seems that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Now THAT'S "change you can believe in!"






March 12, 2009 - Thursday 
By KARL ROVE

Presidents throughout history have kept lists of political foes. But the
Obama White House is the first I am aware of to pick targets based on
polls. Even Richard Nixon didn't focus-group his enemies list.

Team Obama -- aided by Clintonistas Paul Begala, James Carville and
Stanley Greenberg -- decided to attack Rush Limbaugh after poring over
opinion research. White House senior adviser David Axelrod explicitly
authorized the assault. Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel assigned a White
House official to coordinate the push. And Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
gleefully punched the launch button at his podium, suckering the White
House press corps into dropping what they were doing to get Mr.
Limbaugh.

Was it smart politics and good policy? No. For one thing, it gave the
lie to Barack Obama's talk about ending "the political strategy that's
been all about division" and "the score-keeping and the name-calling."
The West Wing looked populated by petulant teenagers intent on taking
down a popular rival. Such talk also shortens the president's honeymoon
by making him look like a street-fighting Chicago pol instead of an
inspirational, unifying figure. The upward spike in ratings for Rush and
other conservative radio commentators shows how the White House's
attempt at a smackdown instead energized the opposition.

Did it do any good with voters not strongly tied to either party? I
suspect not. With stock markets down, unemployment growing, banks
tottering, consumers anxious, business leaders nervous, and the economy
shrinking, the Obama administration's attacks on a radio talk show host
made it seem concerned with the trivial.

Why did the White House do it? It was a diversionary tactic. Clues might
be found in the revelation that senior White House staff meet for two
hours each Wednesday evening to digest their latest polling and focus-
group research. I would bet a steak dinner at Morton's in Chicago these
Wednesday Night Meetings discussed growing public opposition to
spending, omnibus pork, more bailout money for banks and car companies,
and new taxes on energy, work and capital.

What better way to divert public attention from these more consequential
if problematic issues than to start a fight with a celebrity
conservative? Cable TV, newspapers and newsweeklies would find the
conflict irresistible. Something has to be set aside to provide more
space and time to the War on Rush; why not the bad economic news?

Here's the problem: Misdirection never lasts long. Team Obama can at
best only temporarily distract the public; within days, attention will
return to issues that clearly should worry the White House.

Not even Team Obama can forestall unpleasant reality. And among those
America now faces is Mr. Obama adding $3.2 trillion to the national debt
in his first 20 months and 11 days in office, eclipsing the $2.9
trillion added during the Bush presidency's entire eight years.

Another reality is that Mr. Obama's fiscal house is built on gimmicks.
For example, it assumes the cost of the surge in Iraq will extend for a
decade. This brazenly dishonest trick was done to create phony savings
down the line.

Mr. Obama's budget downplays some programs' true cost. For example, his
vaunted new college access program is funded for five years and then
disappears (on paper); the children's health insurance program drops (on
paper) from $12.4 billion in 2013 to $700 million the next year. Neither
will happen; the costs of both will be much higher and so will the
deficits.

Mr. Obama's budget also assumes the economy declines 41% less this year
and grows 52% more next year and 38% more the year after than is
estimated by the Blue Chip consensus (a collection of estimates by
leading economists traditionally used by federal budget crunchers). If
Mr. Obama used the consensus forecasts for growth rather than his own
rosy scenarios, his budget would be $758 billion more in the red over
the next five years.

Then there's discretionary domestic spending, which grows over the next
two years by $238 billion, the fastest increase ever recorded. Mr. Obama
pledges it will then be cut in real terms for the next nine years.
That's simply not credible.

Then there's his omnibus spending bill to fund the government for the
next six months, laden with 8,500 earmarks and tens of billions in
additional spending above the current budget. What happened to pledges
for earmark reform and making "meaningful cuts?"

In the face of our enormous economic challenges, top White House aides
decided to pee on Mr. Limbaugh's leg. This is a political luxury the
country cannot afford, and which Mr. Obama would be wise to forbid. Or
did he not mean it when he ran promising to "turn the page" on the
"old" politics?

Mr. Rove is the former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to
President George W. Bush.

February 24, 2009 - Tuesday 

Category: Web, HTML, Tech
Here's a quick tip on how you can generate Page One Google listings within a matter of hours, with thanks to Anthony and Tim Anthony Buchalka of Take Over Page One fame.

If you aren't familiar with Squidoo, you need to open a free account today. There's no "upsell" to worry about, just a powerful, free tool you can use to generate traffic to your blog network, which we'll get to another time.

Two things to remember about Squidoo.

First, when you decide to build a lens to promote a product - Magnetic Sponsoring, for instance - you need to do two things:

1. Create a Squidoo account using a nickname which includes your keywords... in this case, "Magnetic Sponsoring."

A lot of people have built Squidoo lenses to promote Magnetic Sponsoring, but almost NONE have known this little secret. You can try almost any combination, like "magneticsponsoringguy" or "guruofmagneticsponsoring."

What is important is that your nickname includes the primary keywords.

That's Marketing Black Ops, and it works pretty well!

2. Create a LENS NAME that ALSO includes your keywords, like "dillardandmagneticsponsoring," or "magneticsponsoringrules."

If someone else has used the name you picked, no worries... just add a dash or an underscore, as in "_magneticsponsoringrules" or "-dillardandmagneticsponsoring," and it will work just as well.

I did this once to create a lens to promote one of my blogs, and made the #2 spot on Google in 12 hours - trust me, this is a powerful tool in the hands of anyone who understands the right way to use it!

All the best,
Ken
January 28, 2009 - Wednesday 
Way to go, Yanks... if President Obama's "stimulus" package is passed, you're going to be on the hook not only for ANOTHER 900 BILLION, but the $40//OOPS! ONE-HUNDRED billion in INTEREST as well.
When the 2nd and 3rd round of mortgage failures hit your economy, and cost you another 1.5 TRILLION above and beyond Obama's "stimulus package," how will your children manage to pay for it all?
One of the nice things about being 68 years old is that I've learned, beyond any doubt, that no one can borrow their way out of debt.
The United States is in serious - perhaps fatal - economic straits, and the outlook gets worse by the day.
 
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December 18, 2008 - Thursday 

Category: Jobs, Work, Careers
December 16, 2008 - Tuesday