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Mike, this one’s for you. Another example of republican propaganda blitz…cut and pasted, to convince the gullible.
Doug: Thanks. I appreciate your passion and your support.
Evelyn: Consider it done.
Peace out.
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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 asignificant 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. :)
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The saying used to be, ‘Behind every great man, there’s a great woman, ‘ no longer applies to the modern woman….well maybe except for those modern women who are happy to walk behind their men. A nod to Ruth who posted, ‘Behind every man there’s a smart woman,’ a few days ago. Just love that Ruth.
So, I’m changing the tune one more time and saying, ‘Beside every great man is a smart woman.’ And Obama is lucky; he has two. We all have had the chance to get to know Michelle Obama over this past year, and I can safely say, we all think she is the cat’s meow. But what about his other leading lady?
She is a woman who doesn’t like to be in the limelight. She would rather have the attention off of herself and the focus be on ‘the team’. So it’s no surprise that we don’t see her often in the media. But from what I have read and heard, every important decision that Obama needs to make is run by her first. She is the other woman beside Obama. The woman I am referring to is Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s official advisor.
Ms. Jarrett is one cool lady; I’d like her on my personal team. Here’s the article that I think you will enjoy too, just in case you want a quick read instead of watching the video:
Washington (CNN) — Valerie Jarrett does not like to talk about herself.
I know this because we’ve sat down on numerous occasions for interviews, going back to the early days of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. But this one was perhaps the most challenging because the focus was on her.
She is fiercely loyal to Obama, as one of his closest friends. But she also advises him as president, with the title of Senior Adviser and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Liaison.
The ultimate insider does not spill the beans. But doing a series on the power players inside the White House would not be complete without looking at Jarrett’s role.
She has called her relationship with the president a “mind meld.”
“We’re good friends who have known each other for a long time,” Jarrett says. “Eighteen years, you get a pretty good sense of him.”
Her first sense of him came in 1991 when Obama was a young law professor in Chicago, Illinois.
Jarrett was interviewing his fiancée, the future first lady, Michelle Robinson, for a job in Chicago Mayor Richard Daley’s office. The protective partner, Obama, was making sure Jarrett was on the up and up.
Jarrett first explained the scene when I interviewed her in May 2008.
“They sat next to each other and when she was speaking he would just look at her with this adoring look,”Jarrett said with a laugh, “but he was really tough on me in the nicest possible way.”
The three became fast friends. Now Obama says he runs every important decision by Jarrett, trusts her completely and considers her family.
When I bring this to her attention she accepts her role humbly.
“Well, I hope he would trust me the way any close friend does. He knows I have his best interest at heart and that I understand, because I’m part of the administration, the myriad of challenges he faces,” Jarrett says. “So I hope he views me a sounding board, someone who’s going to be honest, direct and candid with him at all times.”
She laughs when I suggest perhaps she is his consigliere.
“You can tell I’m uncomfortable with this,” she says when I try to get her to focus more on her role.
She does not like to be singled out from the rest of the White House team.
Instead she paints a picture of what it would be like if I were in an Oval Office meeting with the president.
“When everyone’s done talking, if there’ve been a couple of people who’ve been quiet, he’ll say, ‘Well, Suzanne, what do you think of this issue?’ ” Jarrett says.
She describes his style in running the meetings as “accommodating.”
“He reads people very well. He’s extraordinarily perceptive. He can tell from the body language if someone is uncomfortable with something,” Jarrett says.
But she can also read the president’s body language when he’s heard enough talk.
“He’s not moody, but you can tell when he’s ready for a conversation to end,” Jarrett says. “He enjoys making sure there is robust debate, but when he’s finished with debate he’s finished. He’s ready to move on. So I can detect when enough is enough, let’s bring in the next issue.”
Jarrett says newcomers to the administration have pulled her aside to get her take on how things were going.
“Particularly early on, people who didn’t know the president as well as I did would come to me after a meeting and say ‘What did he really mean? I know he said this, but what is he really thinking?’ and I took such delight in being able to say he meant exactly what he said. That’s who he is.”
It’s the intangibles that Jarrett sometimes brings to the table.
“People are always looking for the hidden intent, the body language, and he is about as straight a shooter as you’re going to ever come across. So I think part of what I do is go around and give people some comfort to really trust what he said. He meant exactly what he said. You can take him at face value.”
Jarrett says the president does not make deals after his meetings are done. People don’t trail him through the back door trying to change his mind.
“That’s just not the way he operates,” Jarrett says. “He likes to hear from everybody at the same time. Then he makes a decision.”
Jarrett’s job includes acting as a liaison to the business community and conducting outreach to African-American groups. But it’s her role as confidante to the president that makes her the ultimate insider.
Jarrett sits in on Obama’s daily briefings in the morning that deal with national security and the economy. She also attends policy meetings regarding the president’s agenda on health care, energy and education. She facilitates and hosts small groups of CEOs to have lunch with Obama. And she heads the Office of Public Engagement as the president’s contact with outside groups.
Jarrett says she also spends “a good deal of time” with Michelle Obama both personally and professionally. Part of her portfolio is working closely with the first lady’s team, “making sure there’s seamless interaction between the East and West Wings.”
Jarrett occupies the office previously used by Karl Rove and former first lady Hillary Clinton.
She is often the only woman in the room in briefings with the president. But she dismisses talk of tension with “the boys,” as some of the male power players are referred to in the White House.
“We really do pull together as a team,” Jarrett says.
While Jarrett’s ability to freelance as the president’s senior adviser has rankled some, Jarrett says being inside the circle of power is a “warm” and “inclusive” environment.
As for Obama’s all-male pickup basketball games, Jarrett says that’s not where the real power resides.
“I think what’s really important is who does the president surround himself with and give substantial responsibilities to.”
Jarrett’s got plenty of responsibility.
Her challenge is separating her friendship with the president from her job. Often she takes her cues from where she stands.
“If we’re in the Oval Office, I call him “Mr. President.” It’s very formal. I think it’s appropriate. It’s not just deferential to him but to the office,” Jarrett says.
“I really try to compartmentalize our friendship and what my role is outside the office, and my role as senior adviser.”
When I ask her if that’s a difficult thing to do, requiring her to flip a switch, she says “no.” She says when she’s in the Oval Office, they’re all about business, outside, “everything but business.”
“The one thing I don’t do is try to mix the two. I don’t try to be his friend when we’re having a business conversation and I try not to burden him with office issues when trying to have downtime,” Jarrett says.
When they’re hanging out as friends, it’s often indulging in their favorite pastime.
“We like to eat,” Jarrett says with a hearty laugh. “He’s a healthy eater. I’m not. We have a lot of wonderful conversations around the dinner table — something we’ve always enjoyed.”
But now that dinner table is in the White House. The movies they enjoy watching, they now take in at the White House movie theater. But despite that, Jarrett insists her longtime friend is the same.
She says what she finds “so appealing” is he’s still “grounded.”
“He has a very good sense of self, he’s steady. His temperament is very predictable,” she says.
A year after Obama captured the White House, Jarrett is still in awe.
“Not a day goes by I don’t pinch myself and treasure this experience and opportunity to serve this president who also happens to be my friend.”
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Hey Zen Lill: I was going to respond to your ditch digger comment, but the boys on the blog said it better than I ever could – thank you. BTW…liked the e-mail that you received – an oldie but a goodie. I hope work picks up for you.
Mike: I am tempted to join too. That Ann Coulter is a total trip. When ever I watch her my mouth is agape; I can’t believe she is for real. I feel the same way when I watch Rush -They need to bed each other if they haven’t already. - they’re perfect together.
Hi Anna - Hi Peter- Hafa Adai.
BTK: Thanks for posting. No disrespect to all of you veterans reading, but Veterans Day caught me on a bad day, and I was speechless that morning as you can tell from my post yesterday. In my mind there should be no other choice but to give the men and women that fight for our country the care and benefits that are due to them. If we can afford to spend billions on bombs, we can afford to take care of the people who risk their lives every day. This issue should never be an issue.
Linda: Good article -thanks for posting. And yes some men are loony…some women are too.
Kent: Hello Mate. Sorry for all of the trouble you have had making a comment but it looks like your wish has come true. If you have to join something to get on my blog, I certainly don’t know about it. So…I guess my blog address is still on your bar? :) Good luck with the Mensa girls…and school.
Alexander: Hi there. Thanks for the info to share. I want to know if there was anything to learn behind the space shuttle Columbia’s explosion on February 1st, besides the shocking organization problems discovered that we are already privy to, - any surprises we need to know about?
Readers: I am done. It is a tad early for me this morning to articulate as well as I would have liked to. And this weekend I am in a workshop from 8am-6pm Saturday and Sunday. Just giving you a heads up…I’ll still be here checkin’ in and writing a little, but don’t expect much from me.
Happy Friday….flap those lips if you wish…
Peace out.
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Have you seen any of these signs in your neighborhood?
(click on photo to read)
I don’t know if you’ve seen signs like this in your neighborhood but here in San Francisco, Obama’s stimulus package is working….jobs are being created. You want to know if Obama’s stimulus is doing something. I am happy to say that here, it is.
We can bitch at the bank bailouts and wonder just where all of the money is going besides into the pockets of big boys till when ever…I know because I bitch about it too. But there are some good things happening out there, and they deserve the recognition too.
Back in January Obama had a goal to put together a plan that “not only creates jobs in the short-term but spurs economic growth and competitiveness in the long-term.” That stimulus package, the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” has come to fruition and is working.
Focusing on providing assistance to low- and middle-income Americans, Obama’s plan from the beginning was to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure by investing in states that are struggling with falling revenues. California currently in a bankrupt state, is one of them. Obama’s goal was to create or preserve at least 3 million jobs over the next two years. Is it working? Is he reaching his goal?
Readers: You tell me. The stimulus plan is working in our beautiful city. How successful it is, how many projects are really being supported by the package, I really don’t know. But I am happy to see that there is some progress…is progress happening in your city? – blog me.
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BTK: How goes it? Are you able to post your comments on The Huff successfully now or what? After I post, I’m gonna trip on over there and read a bit. I have commented myself over there. However, I do need to watch it with my spicy language and ribald badinage :) (That’s a nod to you George – Not George the Bigot :) By the way…loved your dig on Dylan.
Hi Ruth: loved your story. :)
Theresa: Your story was horrifying. Just having a baby or not, I’m pretty connected to down there, not just to the obvious physical part, but I know when my girls happy and when she’s falling apart – pun intended. :) Great write – hope it never happens to me or anyone else – good advice: Anything funny happening down there? Feeling ‘flat’ with no hole? – address it immediately, please.
Anon: You’re right; the woman that you saw at the party doesn’t write this stuff – Yeah my husband is my ghost writer- just like your husband thinks for you- he does for me too.
Zen Lill: No offense taken – why would I? I didn’t know half the people at the party. Anon is obviously not a friend of mine; no woman friend of mine would ever make that kind of statement towards me, and any man that knows me wouldn’t say that about me either. The words had no impact on me what-so-ever. I laughed when I read her comment – Hard to be offended or take Anon seriously when the words are so far from the truth.
In regards to twitter: All it means is that if people know your twitter address, they can follow you unless you block them. I have blocked a few spammers – yes there are spammers here at twitter too. Anybody can chose to follow you just by doing a search to find you and see if you have a twitter address. Your followers can check in to see what you’re up to. Whether you make a comment or not they are still followers if they choose to be or until you block them from following. It’s really very simple and much easier than FB, although FB has its place too I am discovering. Tweet me baby.
Alexander: Let me tell ya, Suzy Wong’s got it goin’. I’m sure Bita would look gorgeous in anything but a little Asian spice is always nice…..garters and stockings underneath…outfit complete…Ready to praise, peel off, and take pleasure in :)
Evelyn: Thank you for your comment and for including your article. When I wrote about Major Hasan, my research did not include that vital piece of info, and I misunderstood my source. My apologies to my readers for the misinformation. Big mistake.
And my apologies to Major Hasan for writing that he turned the gun on himself, and calling him a gutless wonder. Now I’ll just call him a mass murderer.
But much more importantly, big kudos and congrats to Sgt. Munley, the true hero who, didn’t give up despite being shot three times herself….saved the day. Love her courage. Women rock.
Ingrid: Thank you for your comment. I know the feeling. I get anxious about the state of the world myself too. We all should be a little anxious or it means we’re not paying attention to the happenings in this world. Anxiety can be good if it is the impetus for change.
Your statement, “So now the world is full of people willing to kill others who do not believe as they do,” is a truth that has been going on for centuries. When were people not killing each other over some religious belief? Now we are blessed with the internet that gets us the information in split seconds from all over the world. No one has the excuse that they aren’t informed when there are so many ways to be informed. All one as to do is get involved.
Obviously you are involved in the world. I love when I hear people, especially younger people, inspired by me, my blog and the things written here. You are the future of this planet – You do have the opportunity to contribute a different attitude to a better world. You just have to do it. Love….right back at you :)
Mike: Good points. I have been trying to rid my blog of ads that I don’t particularly want to advertise, but I can see from your comment and Libby’s that some are worth running, if nothing else but learning what the other side is doing (knowledge is power), i.e. your words: (1)….”get to see what bulls**t he is exporting and (2) he it cost him money to do it.” I enjoyed your comment and your view – keep it coming.
Readers: As always, good to hear your views- blog me – tweet me.
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I am sure that all of you by now have noticed that this bird, moi, has joined twitter and is now tweeting! Join twitter and come follow my tweets. It’s easy to join and much more simpler than FaceBook. Although I am not knocking FB. I faced off awhile ago but I am back at it again and have figured out how not to be on it for hours on end. Now I am enjoying connecting with so many of you on all 3 venues. I have even recently joined some of my fave websites where my comments are now connected to my twitter. Pretty cool. So if you are having a hard time commenting here, or just want to connect in another way, join twitter and come tweet me baby!
Okay enough of blog biz.
Hi Mike: Thanks for the compliment and the offer. If I could be in SF at 4:00 on Thursday, I would be there to support but I work during the day so it is a no go for me. Are you going to be there? Let us know how it goes – thanks.
Eunice: My pleasure.
Libby: I removed that ad of Newt – As you can see it’s still up. – it takes a while to get it out of the system. But hey, maybe I should keep it for that one purpose. :) Since you joined – please keep us posted.
Anon, Anon 2: Well, well, well….are either of you close friends of mine? I can’t imagine that if either of you knew me well, you would know that my blog would never be a subject that you could not broach. Are you just too shy or is it something else? I spoke about my blog several times that evening, and happy to do so. So no, I do not mind being approached in public – why would I? I love chatting about my blog.
Let me guess….hmmm were either of you amongst the 4 in the bedroom who were totally silent when I was speaking to a woman who I just met, about my blog? I knew all of you quite well except for the one guy….And even though we haven’t seen each other in years, we had all grown up together, and yet not one of you said a word when this new acquaintance and I were chatting it up. Yeah I noticed the silence. :) Look, I won’t put you on the spot. I don’t expect you to answer. I just find it humorous that both of you had topics that you wanted to discuss yet you didn’t come up to me. You must know that I am so approachable. And if you didn’t, you do now! Talk to me.
Hey Zen Lill: As much as I agree that we need to pump up availability and research in prevention, I am not sure if you are saying that you personally would not like to pay for penile dysfunction products, viagra or abortions, meaning that people in general should get these for free through health insurance etc., or if you mean the government public option, should not subsidize these products and procedures.
A ‘personal decision‘ is a very shady area in my mind. Circumstances change. People change. Sometimes women get pregnant, and the man gets cold feet and leaves. Should a woman be forced to have the baby as a single parent? Women can be persuaded into pregnancy thinking that she does want a child, gets pregnant, and then wakes up one morning, reality hits and she realizes that maybe she really doesn’t want a baby. Maybe a young woman wants to have a child, gets pregnant, and a month later gets the raise and promotion that she has been working so hard for, but knows she won’t get the support from her boss – a man. She makes a tough decision and opts to have an abortion, knowing that she can live the dream job and have children later. My girlfriend just went through this only she chose to have a baby, and her boss, a man, laid her off – she is now in a law suit.
The point being, having a child is a huge life changer. I know you know this even better than me :)
I just feel that during the decision process, women can change their minds, and they have every right to. And women should be supported for changing their minds if they choose. There are all sorts of personal reasons and decisions why women chose to get pregnant and then choose to have an abortion. And because women are the only ones who truly experience this on a physical level not to mention an emotional level, women need to be supported by it. And worrying whether they will be covered by it, shouldn’t be an issue.
Here’s an article that I read this morning on the Huff Post. (I tweeted it too :)
One of Congress’s foremost champions of abortion rights said on Monday that the Senate did not have the votes to add a more restrictive anti-abortion amendment to health care reform legislation.
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said that 60 votes would be needed to strip the current health care bill of its abortion-related language and replace it with a version resembling that passed by the House of Representatives on Saturday. And, in an interview with the Huffington Post, the California Democrat predicted that pro-choice forces in the Senate would keep that from happening.
“If someone wants to offer this very radical amendment, which would really tear apart [a decades-long] compromise, then I think at that point they would need to have 60 votes to do it,” Boxer said. “And I believe in our Senate we can hold it.”
“It is a much more pro-choice Senate than it has been in a long time,” she added. “And it is much more pro-choice than the House.”
Boxer’s reading of the political landscape might seem like the hopeful spin of an abortion-rights defender. But it was seconded by a far less pro-choice lawmaker, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.)
“It would have to be added,” sad the Montana Democrat of an amendment that mirrored that offered Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) in the House. “I doubt it could pass.”
Speaking days after House Democrats helped pass the Stupak provision — which would greatly restrict private insurers from covering abortion — Boxer and Baucus’s proclamations are undoubtedly music to the ears of pro-choice activists. President Obama, likewise, stressed during an interview with ABC News Monday night that he would like to see the Stupak amendment changed before a final version of health care legislation is produced.
In making her argument, Boxer described the provision as inherently prejudiced, as well as bad policy and unfair politics. The Stupak amendment, she said, would deny women access to “a legal medical procedure” even if she agrees to pay for it with private funds (a supplemental policy would have to be purchased to cover abortion).
“It’s bad enough on the first count, but on the second count it seems to me very unfair and very discriminatory,” she said. “I don’t see them picking out anything that a man relies on, any kind of procedure that a man relies on. This is very discriminatory towards women.”
She noted that it was predominantly men who were making these policy decisions.
“In all my years in politics, this is what it’s been like,” Boxer said. “This is the way it is. It always amazes me. The leading voices always, since I’ve been in Congress, have always been males. And that is one of the reasons why I think it is so important to have more women. Not that every woman is pro-choice. It is not true. But most of the women are.”
“And so when I see man after man come down there I just feel, in my heart our of hearts: Why don’t you trust women to make this decision? We are deserving of your trust,” the senator added.
Currently, the Senate bill’s language would allow for insurers participating in a health care exchange to cover abortions so long as they ensured that federal funds are not used to pay for the procedure. An amendment similar to Stupaks’ effort — which was offered by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) — had already been voted down in the Senate Finance Committee.
To re-introduce such a provision, Boxer said, 60 senators would be required to cut off debate on the floor. And the votes for that, she said, likely won’t materialize.
“If they try to add the language we would try to stop them,” she said. “If somebody wants to take it out they are going to need 60 votes to take it out… And my view is that we do have the numbers.”
Boxer is slated to meet on Tuesday with Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) as well as other Democratic women in the Senate to discuss the topic of abortion vis-à-vis health care reform.
“When we sat down to do health care, I thought there was an understanding that we would be abortion-neutral,” she said. “In other words we wouldn’t change anything on abortion; that federal funds couldn’t be used but of course private funds could as long as this was legal. And Roe v. Wade is the law of the land.”
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