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Dear Speaker Pelosi,

I wonder if you’re aware of the dereliction of your duties when you uttered these words:

“Impeachment is off the table.”

Congress is required by the Constitution of the United States to provide checks and balances with the Executive branch and impeachment is required by the Constitution when the President commits high crimes and misdemeanors.

By making that statement, you have denied that responsibility. What would it take to change your mind?

Illegal wiretapping? No.

Torture? No.

Lawless detention of people at Gitmo? No.

700 signing statements designed to ignore 200 years of precedents? No.

An NIE report that makes Him look either incompetent or deceitful, after mentioning a threat of WWIII based on no evidence? Nope.

And now obstruction of justice by destroying evidence? Apparently not.

Ms. Pelosi, as the first female Speaker of the House, you had an opportunity to demonstrate that women are just as courageous and willing to make difficult decisions as men. You have failed.

But even more, you have simply failed the Constitution and America. This will be your legacy. Whatever else you have done for your country’s good will forever be overshadowed by your not stepping up when your country needed you most.

Good night and good luck.

Amazing. Here’s what CNN calls news. Seven of thirteen stories on the home page are irrelevant. We’re living in a world gone mad. Never in history has the news media been more needed to inform the public. Never in U.S. history have they failed so miserably. Raunchy mannequins, chimps, bad kissers and fur-clad piglets. Now that’s what I call news!!!

How about global warming, peak oil, Alberto Gonzales, Andrew CArd, Larry Craig, President Bush’s signing statement designed to skirt congressional oversight, just to name a few. How about the rising cost of food and gasoline that never gets counted in inflation figures, or $4.50 for a half gallon of milk on $6.00 minimum wage? Where’s the reporting on the pending contempt of congress for Hariet Miers? How about the drought. Or how about a story about people committed to making peace in the world. Instead we get chimps. Maybe that’s what we have at CNN, chimps.

The ceremonies commemorating the 3000 souls lost on 9/11/2001 were deeply moving. Especially the images I saw of folk in Pakistan and India grieving and honoring the American civilians who died five years ago.

I still feel sad knowing so many died and that so many still grieve their loss, and afraid when I acknowledge we live in a world where such actions are planned and exectuted by people I don’t know that want to see me, an american, dead.

But even more, I feel great pain thinking about the 30000(probably more like 50000-100000) Iraqi civilians that have died since the US government decided to “liberate” Iraq. Where are the ceremonies, the garlands, the speeches for those innocents, who didn’t ask us to liberate them, who just wanted a decent life like the 3000 lost five years ago? Great pain because making such an event of 9/11 without acknowleging the 30000+ deaths that the US is directly or indirectly responsible or at least accountable for, in response to 9/11, leads me to the conclusion that so many of us must value american life over that of Iraqis. And at better than a 10-1 ratio!

I’m unwilling to value our lives and not value theirs!
I proclaim today 9/13!

This day, we acknowledge 30000+ innocent civilian deaths in Iraq, based on at least mistaken information, more likely outright deceit. Will you join me in wailing for the mothers, fathers, sons and daughters of innocent people who have been killed by people they didn’t know, these people who have invited no violence upon them?

I realized something this morning. Google doesn’t work anymore for me. Google, with its secret algorithms and its dedication to fairness has finally missed the point. After all these years of getting it right or at least trying to, Google has missed the mark by a mile.

Here’s why:

I noticed that Google reports some of my websites as having no links back to them, which of course is patently false. We all know there’s link spammers out there so that means Google must be doing something to mitigate that real problem. The trouble is how can they do it accurately? The answer is, they don’t. Sites like mine get left in the dust because I don’t have links from sites that meet their relevance criteria.

But wait, that’s not true either! I have a site with a link from a PR6 website that doesn’t appear either! Yet when I search for the keyword “mydomain.com”, presto, there it is in the search results on the PR6 site. So Google knows it is there and chooses not to publish that link as a link to my site using their link: tool.

Anyway all this is interesting but besides the point. I woke up this morning and realized what I really want is this:

ACCURATE AND COMPLETE SEARCH RESULTS!

I want it left to me to decide what’s relevant. Not Google. It’s as if Google has recreated the internet in its own image. You know, like God.

I don’t give a damn what’s “popular”, I want information. Some of the information I want may be on websites like mine that may not have enough visitors for Google to decide we’re important. Mr. Google, I want to decide that what’s relevant to me, I don’t need your help.
So now I call Google the POP SEARCH ENGINE. For kids, suckers and AOL users.

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I’ve been designing wesbsites for over 10 years. In fact, the links at right lead to some of the very first web pages on the Internet. And I’ve seen the Internet change from a hope driven cowtown to a grimy metropolis filled with slimeballs of every variety.

But wait, this post is supposed to be about how Google sucks. We’re supposed to love Google! Like a cute little puppy dog. After all we don’t search on a key phrase, we google it now, don’t we? But what results are you seeing?

Who died and made Google God? (They do both start with a G.)

Google is actually much like the Bush Administration in one respect: they’re secretive and you can count on the tripe that’s fed to the public being far from the reality of the situation, which we will probably never know thanks to limp-dicked american journalism. Google has something called PageRank.

They make a case that PageRank is proof that Google is fair and balanced in evaluating websites. I agree, I just don’t trust that Google actually uses PageRank as the determining factor to rank their pages on their own search engine! Pablum for the public, I believe. Is this why Google sucks? No, it’s much worse.

Google has something called the Google sandbox. So, when you introduce a new website on the Internet, they maybe index your home page, or who knows what, then wait some undetermined amount of time, and then they decide if you play nice, and if yes, then they index and rank some or all of your site. And if they decide you’re a bad dog, for whatever reasons their pin-headed algorithms choose, then you don’t get to be on Google. That’s why Google really sucks.

I just happen to have a website that’s been in the sandbox for over a year. It has no content-spam, only real content, no mirror sites, no weird SEO schemes, no doorway pages, nothing, absolutely nothing objectionable to anybody with a brain that works. So, yes I’m bitching. Google sucks, Google sucks, Google sucks. Now I feel a little better. And my site is now getting 200 visitors a day, NO thanks to Google.

My solution? Use other search engines. That’s what I’m doing now. Give up your Google addiction and try it. Wow. Different results, and a difference I like. Yahoo, MSN, Dogpile. Dogpile? Yes Dogpile. Anything but Google. Try it and see the Internet you won’t see at Google. Will there be more trash sites? Maybe. But I can tell you that a lot of the Google results are trash too, sometimes even on the first few pages of Google results.

Which leads back to the beginning of the rant– Slimeballs that create all the trash. The Internet is rapidly filling to its bursting point with trash pages, trash mail and slimeballs trying to break in and steal something from you, or pour bottles of Viagra down your throat. POP! See you back on the farm.