Blog Ads Down
Posted by Michelle Moquin on November 17th, 2009
Readers: Well in case you haven’t noticed, my ads are gone. With a little research and an e-mail in my spam box, I discovered that Google ads deactivated my account. This was their e-mail to me:
Hello,
While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense
account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers. Since
keeping your account in our publisher network may financially damage our
advertisers in the future, we’ve decided to disable your account.
Please understand that we consider this a necessary step to protect the
interests of both our advertisers and our other AdSense publishers. We
realize the inconvenience this may cause you, and we thank you in advance
for your understanding and cooperation.
My account is posing a significant risk to their adwords advertisers. How am I a risk? And why am I being disabled? Well…according to their ‘Disabled Account Faqs’, the only reason they deactivate an account is because of invalid click activity. Okay…well you all know that I am against any of you clicking on ads strictly for my benefit. I mentioned that in my blog recently.
Here’s what I found out:
Because we have a need to protect our proprietary detection system, we’re unable to provide our publishers with any information about their account activity, including any web pages, users, or third-party services that may have been involved.
As you may know, Google treats invalid click activity very seriously, analyzing all clicks and impressions to determine whether they fit a pattern of use that may artificially drive up an advertiser’s costs or a publisher’s earnings. If we determine that an AdSense account may pose a risk to our AdWords advertisers, we may disable that account to protect our advertisers’ interests.
I can’t tell you how irritated I am about this.
I seriously don’t think any of you, my readers, were sitting around all day long clicking on ads to generate money for my blog to benefit me. Nor to shut me down. At least I hope not, but who knows, I may have some enemies that I am not aware of. But really, I seriously doubt that. It would just be too malicious, and I can’t imagine…so I don’t want to even go there.
No…the only thing I can think of is the powers that be are at work again. Was I making money on Google ads? I was starting to – nothing to write home about, but certainly a little pocket change and growing. They don’t like the fact that they can’t shut me down, so they are preventing me from me from making a buck here and there, hoping I’ll get discouraged and quit. Who else could it be? Perhaps they were the ones clicking on ads – The government has money to pay someone to do anything, but would they stoop so low? I doubt they had someone clicking away, but I don’t doubt that they had an influence on Google to deactivate me.
Well they have messed with the wrong girl. I don’t give up that easily and I don’t quit. But I will tell you, I am quite pissy about the whole thing. And quite pissy at Google for deactivating my ads when I have done nothing wrong. Oh and by the way, they are telling me that I will not receive any money that I have earned and any checks on there way to me will be cancelled. Ugh!
Which brings me to an entire other thought: “Google is in bed with our government.” Google touts their mission statement: ”Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Ha! Maybe they need to rethink their mission statement and add a caveat for each country they’re in bed with.
There are several articles, thanks to Doug, that I have briefly perused, that tells me Google is big on censorship. Not only in China, but here in the U.S. In the U.S.? This is really news to me as I do use Google, but not enough to know that at one time I could find something, and now I no longer can. Have you experienced this?
The internet as we know it has been a vital tool for all of us to communicate. What better way for us not to be able to share information than to not make available / censor the information that we want to share with each other?
We could get deeper on this subject, and it requires a bit more reading on my part. But in the mean time, I plan on appealing. (Another thing to ad to my to-do list) I will give Google a chance to do the right thing, and hopefully they will. And if they don’t reactivate my account, I will boycott them big time. I will no longer by loyal; I will be switching to another search engine, and I will encourage my readers to do the same. This is bs and I am pissed. Can you tell? Stay tuned….
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Zen Lill: Thanks for posting the herbs. I have heard of a few but I have not researched anything yet. This is all so new to me. I am seeing an herbalist that Tracey has been seeing for 7 years and is amazing. I’ll let you know how it goes.
On another note…Ah…a snapshot of life – a picture says a thousand words….and what it says is all in the eye of the beholder. I am aware of ‘necking’ – but the picture to me, says they are playing and snuggling. It brings me joy and makes me smile. :)
Gratefully your blog host,
michelle
Aka BABE: Your Bad Ass Bitch Editor
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November 17th, 2009 at 9:09 am
I suggest we readers, followers, fans, dedicated blog readers of Michelle’s hard work show our appreciation to her by giving them a taste of their own medicine. I say to all, DO NOT USE GOOGLE any longer. Go to Ask.com or Bing.com or another search site to show the reaction.
The measly bit of cash that they are now NOT distributing to Michelle, is nothing compared to the monetary damage we as activists can show them. You see, Google monitors where you go and visit, how long you are there, what you write, what you click, what you buy, what you want to buy…etc. They put that through some software with serious algorithmic poetry of numbers to churn out what they want you to see. For those who take the blue pill and play the game of society, believe the lies, and become lambs and slaves to society I don’t expect you to understand, but for those of us who have swallowed the red pill know the truth. We have seen and experienced much enlightened truths to the lies herein.
Hit them hard, tell ALL of your friends. Let them know about the GOOGLE LIE. Let your friends in on the blog so they can read it for themselves.
It is another enlightening morning in blogland of big brother and the holding company….
November 17th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Perhaps my conspiracy theorist life I lead might have overstepped the bounds. I say to you all, although I do not retract my statement, however I suggest as Michelle writes, to allow her her time to let Google appropriately react to their move and explain or fix their wrong doing.
Upon her cue, I will respect her decision for her situation and follow her advice at that time accordingly.
November 17th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Zen Lill
I couldn’t get in yesterday to tell you I feel the same way when I read some of the things people are doing on Michell’s blog. It seems that my little efforts here in Kentucky is all for naught. We try so hard here to keep the niggers from running amok. They are so uppity now that they got that brown boy in our White House. The men around here have more than doubled their membership in the Klan. But that doesn’t make me feel any safer with the niggers trying to move in within a mile of our homes. But I do what I can and I hope with God’s help that we are as my husband says smacking these niggers down enough to let the know their place hasn’t changed.
Shawn
November 17th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
HI Mischa, after I read this I had a thought flash through my head, not sure if the two are related but I believe so…the thought: ‘I NEED FUCK YOU MONEY’ screeched onto the blackboard of my mind located just behind my forehead. I think it was correlating Google and other big money enterprises that can do shit like that without a repercussion – FU $’s that, without – you(me) are just pawns in someone else’s high stakes game, I am oh-so-tired of it….That being said, Ask.com and bing work for me!
Shawn, here’s what I wrote below…
‘…And then I had my own aha moment, bc it just could be that people who always pour their love ‘outward’ just don’t feel as needed or as competent at bringing it homeward with any true consistency…I am always consistent, it’s scary so just reading that let me know that’s it’s all good, I can hang here or if the opportunity arises for me to assist young girls/women in Africa, (or some other unique situation) I won’t be outpouring too much ‘outward’ without handling that old ‘homeward’ perfectly also…any of that make sense to any of you, anyone else relate to that statement by her (or me)??…’ – My statement was about where you’re outpouring your LOVE (at home or always at outward noble/global projects) – the statement is not about your hatred nor does it promote reigning in anyone, no matter what their color or status is in your or your hubby’s eyes…but, good luck with that.
Caio, Zen Lill
November 17th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Hafa adai
Here is another example of the heavy hand of the military on Guam.
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Navy Wants To Bar Guam Customs From Inspecting Military Ships and Aircraft
Guam – The Department of the Navy has issued a point paper informing GovGuam that U.S. “military ships and aircraft are exempt from inspections by the Guam Customs and Quarantine Agency.”
Chief of Staff for Lt. Governor Mike Cruz, Carlotta Leon Guerrero, says that Guam Customs has had the right to inspect military ships and aircraft for decades.
The “point paper” she said signals an intent to change that policy, but it has not been finalized yet.
The Navy’s point paper cites as justification for its proposed change, Guam law [5 GCA #73113] “and the doctrines of sovereign immunity and supremacy.” 5 GCA states, in part,: “Vessels are not required to make entry at the Customs House (1) Vessels of war…”
Read the Navy’s Point-Paper
The point-paper states that : “Under no circumstances may Guam authorities be permitted to exercise governmental authority, nor may they inspect the ship/aircraft.”
Leon Guerrero says the issue is on the table in discussions with the military during the ongoing talks surrounding the military buildup.
Written by :
Kevin Kerrigan
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Peter
November 17th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Zen Lill
I couldn’t have said it better. Where are these neanderthals hiding? They seem to feel that it is safe to come our from under their rocks and show their true bigotry. I live in Lexington and believe me there are too many of these creeps.
I am almost ashamed to be white. I have voted republican for 49 years, including the last presidential election. But the next I will be voting for Obama. He may be black but nothing could be worse than what is occurring in my country in the name of racism.
Mable
November 17th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Michelle
Google has been known to do this, They make a lot of money from people whose blog or web sites they use and then accuse them of something and refuse to pay them their due. Multiply this by the thousands and you will see that they are cleaning up at the expense of the little guy.
They will not be returning that money to the advertiser. They will be pocketing it.
Marcus
November 17th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
I couldn’t get on to make a comment yesterday. Here is another big corporation using their size and their ability to bribe members of both houses of congress to screw the little guy, especially. I hope your readers will sign the petition.
In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was working for a private contractor in Iraq when she was brutally gang-raped by coworkers.1 Four years later, Jamie is still being denied justice.
Jamie can’t file U.S. criminal charges because the rape took place overseas, and a fine-print clause in her contract takes away her right to file a lawsuit in the U.S.2
Why? Because big corporations, led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have worked for years to prevent workers from suing their employers in almost any circumstance, even sexual assault.3
The good news is that a bipartisan group in Congress is working to protect the rights of rape victims like Jamie. But, shockingly, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is fighting it.
They sent a letter to Congress saying that it would “set a dangerous precedent” to allow rape victims into court.4 The worst news? The Chamber has enough clout to tie up the bill for years, unless we fight back.
Clicking here will add your name to our petition telling the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to stop opposing the rights of rape victims:
http://pol.moveon.org/chamber/rape/o.pl?id=17974-7692656-PZx6F9x&t=4
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Evelyn
November 17th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
CURE FOR SPEND-A-HOLICS: NEW TREATMENT FOR MONEY DISORDERS
Perhaps money can’t buy happiness — but it’s all too obvious these days that spending more than you have can bring misery, and cause stress and anxiety that take a toll on your health. Fortunately, help can be had with a new form of therapy that specifically treats what Brad Klontz, PsyD, coauthor with Ted Klontz, PhD, of Mind Over Money: Overcoming the Money Disorders That Threaten Our Financial Health (to be published in December 2009), calls “money disorders.”
HIGH FINANCIAL ANXIETY
Even before the recession, nearly 75% of Americans identified money as the number-one source of stress in their lives. At present, the average American household owes more than $10,000 in credit card debt and saves at a relatively low rate of about 5%. Given these numbers, it’s not surprising to learn that many suffer from money disorders, such as overspending, serial borrowing, compulsive gambling, workaholism, underspending (Depression Era mentality or hoarding), financial dependence or financial infidelity (withholding financial information from a significant other).
“Financial therapy goes beyond the balance sheet to uncover the root causes of money disorders,” Dr. Klontz said. The goal is to identify your “money scripts” — unconscious beliefs associated with money that drive your financial behavior — which in turn helps remove psychological barriers to changing your relationship with money, and enables you to eventually improve your financial health.
CHANGE YOUR MONEY SCRIPT
It’s not the lack of funds that is the problem — with money disorders, Dr. Klontz points out that financial problems are the symptom, not the disease. In most cases, early childhood experiences around money lead to a set of problematic money scripts that create problems in your adult life. The first step is being honest with yourself about your financial problems and making a commitment to change.
People who routinely overspend or avoid dealing with their finances are following what Dr. Klontz calls “poor scripts.” Poor scripts include statements such as, “My net worth is equal to my self-worth” … “It’s okay to keep secrets about money from my spouse” … “The more money I have, the happier I will be.” In his practice and at workshops, Dr. Klontz helps people change their “poor scripts” to “wealth scripts” — such as “It’s important to save money for a rainy day” and “Giving money to others who are in need is something people should do.” You have the ability to change your own money mind-set, he stresses. Creating a new script to recite to yourself eventually transforms it to your new reality, which is how you change your financial trajectory. “Regardless of your starting point or your current financial situation, you can quite literally rewire your brain for wealth,” says Dr. Klontz.
To help people get to the bottom of their money disorders, Dr. Klontz and his team conduct workshops (www.onsiteworkshops.com) around the country. A psychotherapist and a certified financial planner (CFP) run each intensive six-day program. The programs include experiential therapy, in which participants explore past experiences with money to work through unresolved conflicts and emotions about it… practical lectures from a financial planner on risk management, tax strategies and retirement planning… and 45 minutes a day of mindful meditation to reduce anxiety.
WHEN TO SEEK HELP
If you know what you should be doing with your money and just can’t seem to do it… if your financial behavior feels out of control… or if you are suffering from significant emotional, social (e.g., relationship problems) or financial consequences of your behavior, it’s time to seek help. According to Dr. Koontz, warning signs include…
Anxiety, worry or despair about your financial situation.
Lack of savings.
Extensive debt or filing for bankruptcy.
Conflict with family or friends about money.
Compulsive spending or its opposite, hoarding.
Financial dependence or excessive risk-taking.
WHERE TO SEEK HELP
Financial therapy is still a very new field, and Dr. Klontz notes that at present there is no established accreditation — although he and his colleagues are working on this. He has trained dozens of therapists and financial planners around the country and has set up a referral list at http://www.yourmentalwealth.com, where you can also take a financial health test to gauge the relative severity of your issues if you are feeling stressed about money .
There are other options, too — you may be able to find a local therapist who works in financial psychology by asking financial planners for a referral. Some people find it useful to see both a therapist and a financial planner — but this can be expensive. Another solution is to investigate free self-help groups, meditation classes and lectures at local community centers and places of worship. All around the country, people who have been downsized or face other financial setbacks are banding together to help each other develop new marketable skills and find new ways to make ends meet. Of course, it is challenging… but it also is an opportunity to change your money script and get on the right path to financial wellness.
Source(s):
Brad Klontz, PsyD, a financial psychologist in Kapaa, Hawaii, and coauthor with Ted Klontz, PhD, of the upcoming Mind Over Money: Overcoming the Money Disorders That Threaten Our Financial Health, December 2009. Dr. Klontz is cofounder of Your Mental Wealth™. Visit Dr. Klontz’s Web sites at http://www.YourMentalWealth.com and http://www.KlontzConsulting.com.
November 18th, 2009 at 7:17 am
I am getting tired of all this attention being paid to Palin. I voted for McClain because I believed him when he said that she was qualified to be in the seat that could take over for him should he be incapacitated for some reason.
I believed him when he said “country first.” He was a prisoner of war. He gave a lot for this country. I believed that he was the best man for the job. Yes, I am white. But, my vote was cast because of the issues I believed my candidate stood for. “Country First!”
Now, when I see that he obviously doesn’t believe that she is qualified to be president, I feel used. There is no getting around that McClain lied to the American people to get elected. What else has he being using his prisoner of war status to get us to believe?
Clark
November 18th, 2009 at 7:36 am
Michelle
I’ve been on more than a few African safaris also. And I have seen giraffes do that in mating rituals also. Male and females engage in the same motions before copulation.
Actually, “necking” is a form of natural selection instinctually ordered by mother nature to insure the survival of the fittest. While it may seem “sad” to the novice, it is absolutely necessary to insure the continuation of the species.
Man with all his good intentions should stay out of nature’s way. When he interferes , most of the time it is to the disadvantage of the species.
Now to what I really want to talk about. The republican propaganda blitz. Here is another example of how they skew the facts and outright lie to achieve a goal.
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November 18, 2009 | Vol. 4, No. 46
The American People Return to
Personal Responsibility and Honesty
By Newt Gingrich
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As the Senate prepares to take up health reform, Senators should take note of the tremendous shift underway in the thinking of the American people.
Historians may record that the Obama Administration and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were the wake-up call which led Americans to recommit themselves to the core values of American civilization.
The net result of the Obama presidential campaign and a ten month campaign for government control of health care has been a decisive shift away from reliance on government and toward personal responsibility.
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A Stunning 22 Point Shift Away From Government Responsibilty for Health Care
Polling data released last week by Gallup show a startling shift in public opinion: President Obama and Speaker Pelosi are actually convincing the country to rethink their attitudes and move toward the right and away from government solutions in health care (the same seems to be happening on spending, taxes, and how to create jobs, but that will be a future newsletter).
Gallup’s annual poll on health issues (taken every November) shows public opinion shifting against the values of the Left and in favor of the personal responsibility, limited government model which has defined America for 240 years (since the founding decade of the 1770s).
Gallup reports a stunning shift of 22% of all Americans who have moved from believing government is responsible for health care to believing health care is a personal responsibility.
One Out of Every Four Americans Have Changed Their Minds on Health Care
That means nearly one out of every four Americans have changed their minds on a fundamental question of who is responsible for health care. This is one of the largest shifts of its kind in such a short period in modern history.
The survey shows that even after the 2008 presidential campaign and the Obama Administration’s concerted effort to sell government health care, support for non-government responsibility is at an all time high. In fact, for the first time in the decade that Gallup has asked the question, the survey found that more Americans (50%) favor non-government responsibility than believe it is a government responsibility (47%).
The high watermark for the Left’s belief in collective responsibility through government was in November 2006 when by a 69-to-28 margin Americans said health care was a government responsibility (the choice is actually worded government versus nongovernment responsibility).
Thus in November 2006, partially in reaction to Republican failures and the absence of a coherent conservative message, nearly 7 out of every 10 Americans had chosen government responsibility for health care.
The Shift Away from Government Health Care?was Actually Fueled By the Campaign
But November 2006 was when support for government health care peaked.
The shift away from government and towards non-government responsibility was actually fueled by the presidential campaign.
In the November 2008 survey Gallup found support for government responsibility had already dropped to 54% and support for non-government responsibility had risen to 41%. That meant there had been a 7% drop in support for government and a 9% increase in support for non-government responsibility in health care even during the presidential campaign – a campaign in which we were told candidate Obama was very articulate and charismatic and candidate McCain was not very effective. Yet the power of the culture seemed to be outweighing the articulateness of the candidate who was advocating the wrong position.
As President, Barack Obama’s effort to articulate the case for government responsibility has seen support for government erode another 7% and support for a nongovernmental responsibility rise another 9%.
At this rate, after another year of the health debate, the American people will have decisively rejected government as a system for solutions.
Why Democrats Don’t Understand the Shift
Within the Gallup data there are very important clues as to why President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid do not understand what is happening.
Whereas 22% of the country has shifted from government to non-government responsibility in health care, among Democrats support for government remains strong.
Democrats’ belief in government responsibility peaked at 87% in 2007. That meant there was virtually no opposition among Democrats to government run health care.
Even today, when 22% of the American people have shifted away from government, Democrats remain firmly in favor with 74% favoring government responsibility and only 23% favoring non-government responsibility (among Republicans the numbers are now reversed at 21% government and 77% non-government).
So even today three out of four Democrats would reinforce what is now a declining position among the American people.
Keep the Current System or Replace It
A similar shift in public opinion is underway on the question of whether to keep the current health system or replace it.
Today a vast majority (61 to 32) favor keeping the current system rather than replacing it.
The margin among the two parties again reflects this schizophrenia about policies and values.While 86% of Republicans favor maintaining the current system and only 11% favor replacing it, among Democrats the results are very different. Democrats favor replacing the current system by 56 to 35.
Losing Independents, Losing the Country, Losing the Next Election
What these data show is that the Obama Administration and the congressional Democrats are losing the argument with independents, eroding support among their own party and consolidating Republicans into a firmly anti-government position.
This trend suggests that another year of debate over the Left’s values, plans and policies will consolidate the center-right majority and lead to a crushing defeat for the Democratic Congress.
Two more years of debate on this pattern would make President Obama a one-term President.
It will be interesting to see if anyone in the White House reads Gallup data.
It will be interesting to see if anyone in the White House listens to the American people.
Americans Are Probably Going to ?Become Even More Critical of Government and ?Supportive of Nongovernment Solutions
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As the country learns more about government incompetence as a delivery system (read Jim Frogue’s Stop Paying the Crooks) , the H1N1 flu vaccine fiasco and other failures, people will continue to move away from reliance on government.
As Americans think through the economic crisis (10.2% unemployment and growing), the Chinese ownership of $2 trillion in United States debt, the rising state government deficit (going up from $112 billion in 2009 to $134 billion in 2010), and the reactionary unwillingness to reform many of the public employee unions, they will become even more skeptical of turning problems over to government.
The final result of the debates President Obama is sparking may be a nation which polarizes 75 to 25 in favor of nongovernmental responsibility, turning to personal, corporate, nonprofit or faith-based institutions instead of government for solutions.
This would be a grand irony. But the Gallup data show an underlying pattern that should hearten conservatives and demoralize liberals.
Your friend,
Newt Gingrich
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Who are the people who would put their faith in the personal bias of a person, corporation, nonprofit or faith-based institution rather than a government who they have the last say as to who stays in office?
If the environment was so rosy for these “conservatives,” then would they be trying so hard to convince the populace that it is so good?
Mike
November 18th, 2009 at 8:01 am
Clark
McCain is as dumb as Palin. He is a man who has NO qualifications to be president. What has he ever done that would make you think he was qualified to be president of the United States of America?
Being a prisoner of war just means he was captured by the enemy. Living in captivity until released just make him like thousands of other prisoners of war. A prison of war that survived. How does that make him qualified to be president?
Being a member of the US Senate doesn’t make him qualified to be president. What would make him? A little intelligence might. But McCain is as dumb as they come. He simply parrots what his special interest groups tell him. He is a maverick as much as any of the senators in the pocket of the pharmaceutical and energy industries are.
He is a crook that escaped the penalties the other Keating crooks got because he used his prisoner of war status to gain sympathy. As you stated, how much latitude should we give this man because he was a prisoner of war. Haven’t we as a nation paid our debt to this dumb as a box of rocks crook.
People like you are saying that he lied about “Country First” when he knowingly picked a person who he knew to be unqualified so that he could use her female appeal to get elected.
I say that you people should have known that this person was not qualified to be president on his own merits. Being a prisoner of war gives him no special incite on military issues. Being a US senator doesn’t imply he has the intelligent capacity to do the job required of the person that sits in the presidential chair.
McCain is an ignorant dumb ass white boy using his prisoner of war status to get a pass on the intellectual scrutiny that the average presidential candidate would be subjected to. Palin is as qualified as this crooked piece of shit is any day.
While I may not be for Palin, I am sick and tired of white men downing her when they supported McCain. She may be as dumb as McCain, but she has not been proven to be as crooked as that bastard. He tried to be part of an organized scam to rip off the American people, Or have you forgotten the Keating scandal?
The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The five senators, Alan Cranston (Democrat of California), Dennis DeConcini (Democrat of Arizona), John Glenn (Democrat of Ohio), John McCain (Republican of Arizona), and Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (Democrat of Michigan), were accused of improperly intervening in 1987 on behalf of Charles H. Keating, Jr., chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which was the target of a regulatory investigation by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB). The FHLBB subsequently backed off taking action against Lincoln.
Lincoln Savings and Loan collapsed in 1989, at a cost of over $3 billion to the federal government. Some 23,000 Lincoln bondholders were defrauded and many elderly investors lost their life savings. The substantial political contributions that Keating had made to each of the senators, totaling $1.3 million, attracted considerable public and media attention. After a lengthy investigation, the Senate Ethics Committee determined in 1991 that Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, and Donald Riegle had substantially and improperly interfered with the FHLBB in its investigation of Lincoln Savings, with Cranston receiving a formal reprimand. Senators John Glenn and John McCain were cleared of having acted improperly but were criticized for having exercised “poor judgment”.
All five of the senators involved served out their terms. Only Glenn and McCain ran for re-election, and they both succeeded. McCain would go on to run for president twice, including being the unsuccessful Republican Party nominee for president in 2008.
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If a woman had this kind of history, she couldn’t rum for dog catcher. But you white men always give white men a pass.
So until you can give an honest opinion about your own bullshit, lay off Palin.
Kathy