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(0)We use Facebook, Twitter, Google, and some other platforms, but a recent experience with our internet oriented family business has left me a little concerned.
For 20 years, we have operated a web based security camera equipment business. For 20 years I have fought for keyword optimization, good search results, and developed a reputation befitting the nearly first store of its kind on the internet.
It has always been tough, and others now do the search optimization a little better. But over that same time I have developed good relationships, and the customer base remains sufficiently strong.
Strong enough in fact to have missed the impact of some serious subversion that was going on for nearly two weeks.
Late in August, I was reviewing visit statistics for CU1.COM, and noticed a sudden drop of about 300 daily visitors starting on August 12. Followup revealed that the website had been completely scrubbed from the Google search engine. Even using the EXACT domain address as a search term, Google returned only an alternate possibility with it’s “Do you mean ..?” suggestion.
I was able to reach a support person at Google, and explained my concern, and the site appeared later that day as-if it had never had been missing.
Consider that the internet has provided those new ways in which we can communicate. First we had chat rooms, then the blogs. At the point of that last, a new investigative phenomenon had been born. Citizen reporters and pundits. Big Media had it’s grip broken, and no longer was there a leash on the truth. When Twitter, facebook, and other social media venues began and the phenomenon of facebook page likes became a rage, it appeared there was even more opportunity to get ‘the message’ out.
Partly True, until it no longer is. Really.
(10)Nuh Uh.(0)Today is the last day to register online for the conference! You can register on the island for an additional cost. We wouldn’t want you to miss out on this memorable Grand Hotel experience.
The 32nd Biennial Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference will feature RNC Chairman Ronna Romney McDaniel, Betsy DeVos, Governor Eric Greitens, former Congressman Jason Chaffetz, former Governor John Engler, and many more.
Join Republican activists and elected officials from across the state and the country as we discuss ideas, share the Republican message, and celebrate Michigan’s success.
Please visit http://www.mackinacgop.com/ to register before close of business today!
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Some folks think that citizen engagement is pitiful, so we are going to have classes on how to be engaged.
Let that sink in. You are too busy dealing with all of the complications of life (jobs, family, American Idol), added to the complications of government (Taxes, zoning, naming of trail systems), and frankly, you have zero interest in managing the community budget. Is there time left in your day to fully engage?
Unless Idol is cancelled, your box under the bridge falls apart, family members around you stop going to school, or stop getting married, or never need to go to the hospital, those few extra moments you are blessed with are precious. That free time is becoming rarer as the more dedicated mini-Stalins take the reigns at all level of government. (yes, I purposefully avoided the ‘Hitler’ word. )
We are over managed by an out-of-control Federal bureaucracy, and our local governments have never been so in-your-face with private property rights deprecation in the history of our ‘conquered’ new world. (Columbus day wasn’t that long ago) Dealing with what used to be the simplest of issues now requires a council meeting, permission, a check, and a rubber stamp.
But MSU extension has the fix. Lets teach more dunderheads how to rule effectively! The TC Ticker lays it out:
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There was certainly traffic, but..
I was all psyched about getting up in the air and videotaping the expected back ups along I-75 and US 2 with the closure of the Mighty Mac today. I Had the video camera ready, had the glass on the cameras, and then nothing.
Storms rolled through the region, and the flight plans changed from getting to the trouble spots on time, to about 2 hours late. We hit the bridge about 40 minutes after it had already opened. No cool video of 50 miles of traffic back-ups, and no pictures of the throngs of people breaking in a new set of sneakers.
Chalk it up to how things can go sometimes.
So until the next over-hyped thing we promote here, enjoy an aerial picture of the bridge as it rests underneath a rain cloud.
(8)Nuh Uh.(0)On Monday, the Michigan Department of Transportation will have a mess on its hands.
I will be doing some special reporting on the day’s fun if all goes well. In the meantime, enjoy a picture of the calm before the storm. A shot taken at 2:30 this morning. 
Stay tuned.
(7)Nuh Uh.(0)So if anyone wants to see why the republican party is having a hard time gaining any traction, and wants to see why my predictions of it self-destructing like an Acme dynamite kit are now being repeated by others, look no further than below the fold.
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What could possibly go wrong?
If ever you were going to do the bridge walk, this might be the year to do it. Because of expected traffic backups and associated complications, it is doubtful that there will be a walk after this year’s soon-to-be catastrophe.
Should it be any surprise that as leadership fully embraces their faces with their ass-cheeks, that the terrorists have our number? We pointed out a few months ago that The Islamists continue with their version of winning.
Our way of life has changed, and our liberty has been indeed exchanged for a modicum of security. Ironically, at the same time admitting more of the problem into our communities; the very ideology that has destroyed nations, slaughtered innocents, and subjugated women and men for 1400 years.
Try to deny it.
And now we walk on eggshells, and tiptoe around the problem that our own Governor willfully invited to this state.
What a legacy.
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