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Goldy: As long as you don’t act like the DOT, road repars for the next two years, get used to it. Lane closure ahead, no content or humor.
We will miss you Goldy if you are gone for too long.
Public Notice
Roger Rabbit has returned from vacation and will resume bashing Republican traitors tomorrow.
‘by Goldy, 03/09/2009, 8:09 PM
I’m preparing to move HA to a new server to better handle some of the changes coming up, so please be prepared for some downtime. I’m just sayin’.’
Who is paying for that?
‘Roger Rabbit spews:
Public Notice
Roger Rabbit has returned from vacation and will resume bashing Republican traitors tomorrow.’
No one cares. Again, please have someone notify me when you get that other foot in your grave, just so I can come and jab you with a very large fork and make sure you’re old senile ass is done. Thank-you. And BTW: You have nothing to “vacation” away from. ‘Night old man.
@3 WTF is it to you? You’re a freeloader here, so it doesn’t matter to you.
@4 “make sure you’re old senile ass”
One thing seems certain: I’ll be dead before you learn how to spell.
I’d swear all these wingnut illiterates were home-schooled.
Welcome back, RR. They’re such easy targets these days…
Like shootin fish in a barrell.
Like shootin fish in a barrell.
Like shootin’ fish in a barrell.
(ooooopppps…dunno how THAT happened)
@10, 11 and 12
Guess all the fish are dead :)
The trolls will soon have a new dear leader:
http://lonesomemongoose.wordpr.....overnment/
A piss-poor actor and a third rate martial arts black belt.
Tim McVeigh all over again.
@14 The wingnut traitors are showing their true colors. We need to reconstitute the House Un-American Activities Committee and investigate these subversives.
The real poll that counts.Liberals freaking out.
Geithner hears Democrats’ economic anxieties
By JIM KUHNHENN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urged House Democrats to be patient with President Barack Obama’s young administration on Monday as lawmakers conveyed the frustrations of their economically anxious constituents.
Rep. Lois Capps, D-Calif., said her colleague, Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, D-N.H., implored Geithner: “Hurry, whatever you’re doing, please hurry.”
Geithner addressed House Democratic members for nearly two hours Monday evening in a closed session in the Capitol. He sought to reassure them that Obama’s administration has acted quickly to respond to the recession and the financial crisis.
“The members of the caucus clearly raised great concerns that the American people have about the amounts of money involved and the effectiveness of that money,” House Democratic leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said.
Asked whether he was reassured that the administration policies were working, Hoyer said: “Secretary Geithner indicated that he believes that what we’re doing is working.
“The problem with working is that that means it’s not getting worse,” he added. “The boat is not taking on more water, but you haven’t yet pumped it out.”
Members interviewed after the session described a polite session without rancor. But they said many members reflected the political challenge they faced explaining the policies of a president of their party to a public angry over bank bailouts and an unending recession.
Improving the political climate is crucial if the administration wants to seek further measures from Congress, especially additional money to help the financial sector shed some of the toxic assets that have frozen credit.
“We’re stuck in the middle,” said Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D. “Some view a growing risk that the politics are deteriorating to the point that any further response can’t pass Congress, even though from a financial standpoint a further response is highly warranted.”
The Obama administration has not requested additional money yet. But it included a $250 billion financial industry “placeholder” in its budget. The money represents the cost to the government of using up to $750 billion to purchase bank assets.
Geithner told lawmakers he planned to announce his economic team for Treasury this week. Democratic officials said Geithner was questioned about the adequacy of staffing at the department. In a statement Sunday, Obama announced the nomination of three assistant secretaries to Geithner.
http://www.star-telegram.com/1.....47985.html
Obama’s slide continues:
From Today’s Rasmussen:
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Republicans clearly gave Obama the benefit of the doubt coming into office. Obama quickly polarized this Country…something he promised not to do. Obama promised lots of things while campaigning..and has chosen to actually govern from the far-left.
When Evan Bayh and Russ Feingold are exasperated with Obama…he’s in T-R-O-U-B-L-E!
If Obama signs that grotesquely Pork-filled spending bill, watch the ratings plummet further.
Obama was at +32 on the Strong Approval vs. Strong Disapproval 2 days after Inauguration.
Spin it anyway you want KLOWNS…Obama is losing it.
If we get hit by a terrorist attack like his running mate Joe Biden predicted..it will all be on Obama’s shoulders.
Sucks to be Obama!
11. Rujax! spews:
3rd Graders know how to spell barrel, you KLOWN.
Then you had to do it 3 times.
That’s why you deserve the Lifetime Achievement Rusty PINHEAD Award Rujax.
You’ve earned it with constant displays of stupidity.
Goldy–
Thanks for what you do.
Obviously we have pretty much 180 degree different views of the world.
But for a KLOWN, your not as dumb as you look!
And certainly not as dumb as you sound.
PS–
That’s the closest thing to a compliment you will ever get from me Goldy.
Goldy;
I wrote before about how advertising agencies had convinced advertisers for years about the value of “brand consciousness” or “image” advertising. The idea was simply to make the public more aware of your company name, or to imprint some form of favorable image associated with your company or industry.
Well, I’m sure it works with the fashion and cosmetic industry. It probably also works with the car industry. It used to work for the tobacco industry, before their advertising was made illegal (remember the “Marlboro Man”?). Other industries, not so much.
In any event, advertising agencies had convinced company executives to give huge advertising budgets to agencies to create ad campaigns who’s efficacy could never really be measured. Did anyone ever really see the ad buried among the pages of that magazine sitting on someone’s coffee table? If they happened to turn to that page, did they pause long enough to take the add into their consciousness? If so, did they care (i.e., are they a potential customer)? If so, did it have any impact upon their buying behavior?
One of the aspects of the rise of the internet (and the decline of the print media) is that we can now track many aspects of the efficacy of an ad on the internet. We know how many “impressions” it had (i.e., appeared on the screen). We know how many click-throughs it might generate from customers.
Of course, advetising companies hate this. They like to sneer that internet advertising isn’t “real” advertising, and claim that it’s response rates show it isn’t affective. What they are attempting to gloss over is that we KNOW how effective the internet advertising is. What we DON”T know is how effective traditional advertising is. What the advertising agency is glossing over is that their own print advertising has, for decades, been vastly overpriced and overvalued.
The economy, however, has taken them for a tail-spin. Advertising budgets are getting slashed. Advertisers are insisting that any advertising must result in REAL and IMMEDIATE returns.
So the advertising agencies are fighting back, by trying (in a late effort) to take control of internet advertising. Their industry group is trying to set standards for internet advertising in terms of size and functionality. Moreover, they are trying to convince advertisers not to focus on click-throughs, but on paying a lot of money for a high-placement (and large) “image ad” on sites.
The campaign is explored in some depth in a recent Business Week article, available online at Online Ads: Will Fewer, but Bigger, Be Better?
I would agree that having to many low-value ads tends to diminish the value of the other ads. But I’m suspicious of industry attempts to gain control of the on-line advertising market.
Anyway, a few things to keep in mind as you move toward your newlly constructed site….
@17 “The rising negative is driven by Republicans”
Cynical’s so-called “slide”. -heh It looks like what Cynical is really telling us is that ordinary, America-loving citizens are steadily supporting President Obama but the America-hating, lemming-like Republicans are following the Bloated One’s lead in wanting our President and, of course, America to fail.
We already knew that, Cynical.