Voting Themselves Back into Slavery

I woke up today to a New America. An America with its hand out to the government. An America with no core values or morals. An America where people vote not on what is best for the country, but solely on race.

The press is reporting that 93% of the black population of voters voted for Obama. I know people in that group have lost jobs. I know they have lost homes. I know a great percentage of them are not doing better now then they were four years ago. But, they don't care. They voted against their own best interest for someone based only on the color of his skin. They voted themselves out of jobs, into higher taxes, out of opportunities to work hard and succeed, into an America that will be the Milquetoast of the world - because Obama is black like them. They celebrated last night. Celebrated the demise of America as a free nation, with opportunities for all, without government interference. They celebrated for their race, at the cost of America.

I tried to think how I could write this without sounding racist. It can't be done. They are racist. The majority of blacks in America voted solely on race - to the detriment of the entire country. We aren't supposed to say it was a mistake, a stupid, stupid mistake to vote for Obama. We aren't, because it sounds like we are saying black people are stupid. I am saying anyone, anyone, who voted for Obama is stupid - plain and simple.  They neither understand economics or freedom. They have voted themselves back into slavery.

Obama does not represent America as it was founded. He represents a Euro-style country. A country of dependent citizenship, social engineering, weakened status in the world.

If you voted for him, you are stupid. 

You don't care about the country. You care either about race or taking from other people. That's it. That's you. Have a look in the mirror and when things go quickly to hell, as they will with his guidance, congratulate yourself.

Dear [Company Who Recently Changed Their Product]

Products change. Some companies tinker with their products almost as much as Facebook tinkers with their layout. It used to be, when a product changed radically, those who loved it would start letter writing campaigns. The company would feel the backlash and, sometimes, revert back to the much-loved version. Think, New Coke.

Now we have eBay. If a product changes, we can go to eBay and buy years worth of the old version. The company has lost a customer - for years. They'll think that customer has moved to another product. They'll try to win them back, but they can't. It's still their customer, just outside of their reach.

For example, a few years ago Nexxus changed the formula of their Humectress product. I've used it since forever. The new formula has a too sweet smell, but worse, it doesn't work. I went to eBay. I now have enough to last about 10 years. That's ten years that Nexxus will not have me as a customer. I will be using their product, but they will have no sales from me for ten years. They can run all the sales they can think up. They could even reformulate Humectress. They still have to wait out the ten years before I'll even consider one of their products again.

Consumers win in this. We get the product we want. We get it, usually, less expensively and for extended periods. The companies lose. I hope it teaches them a lesson.

John Ferber's Dirty Little Domain Secret

Behind the scenes of the internet, there's a dirty little secret. Some people are making millions. They buy and sell domain names. They've been doing it since the internet first came to the publics attention. Sounds like a great idea. Nothing wrong with that, right? Many are doing it legitimately, but others are doing it on the backs of small internet shops and business owners. You've probably heard of cybersquatting.

In the early years of the internet, cybersquatters were vilified. They would buy domains with business names or common misspellings and hold them, asking ridiculous prices from those who needed them - who could legitimately use them. Famous cases abound. Big companies, like Microsoft and Yahoo!, won disputes over variations of their domain/business names, while smaller companies without their resources have gone out of business over purposefully misdirected traffic.

Cybersquatting used to be a bad thing. Now, the squatters have taken enough of the internet to publicize themselves as money-making geniuses. They use the domain names - hundreds of them - that they own to make fake sites about domain information and news. Their fake sites sing their praises. They are millionaires, philanthropist, marketing geniuses. Yes, it is brilliant marketing. They fill search results with how wonderful they are, to prevent the truth from showing up. They don't want you to find the links about who they really are - wolves in sheeps clothing.

One of the top domain name sellers is John Ferber with Domain Holdings, LLC. He was even featured on ABC's Secret Millionaire. Notice the word 'secret' right there in the title of the show? The secret is, he and his girlfriend, Jenna Wehner, help cybersquatters sell off the domain names they're squatting.

They've made their millions with legitimate domain name sales, but they're also making money on the backs of business owners whose domain names squatters have purchased. John Ferber, his company, and Jenna Wehner, his girlfriend, are helping cybersquatters collect ransom - thousands of times the original cost of a domain - from business owners trying to stop misdirection of their customers/business.

Is that genius or evil?

Getting in on the ground floor of domain names - buying names to resell for a profit - there's nothing wrong with that. Generic domain names are fair game.

Buying domain names of current businesses for the sole purpose of holding that name hostage to force the business owner to pay you thousands, is the very definition of cybersquatting.

ABC pats John Ferber on the back. Kudos on the MicroGiving business! He's helping others with micro amounts of cash, while the cybersquatters he, his company, and his girlfriend, represent empty the pockets of small businesses - costing business owners thousands in disputes, lost business and legal fees - knowing they don't have the money to fight his million dollar corporation. All the while, his company makes thousands of fake sites with articles about what a great and wonderful man he is.

Maybe he is a marketing genius?