Go Daddy, Gone Baby
Not gone as in out of business, but rather, sold out to the corporate “man.” Expect fewer bikinis in their Super Bowl commercials and no new custom made choppers on Discovery Channel any time soon.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The parent company of GoDaddy.com, a top registrar of Internet domain names, has been sold to a group of private investment firms for $2.25 billion, a person familiar with the transaction told The Associated Press.
Go Daddy Group Inc.’s sale to KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover Ventures comes as the company expects to top $1.1 billion in revenue this year because expanding Internet use has fueled the creation of more websites and the “domains” needed to help find them. Go Daddy announced the sale late Friday. A person close to the transaction, who asked to remain anonymous because of not being authorized to speak publicly, told the AP the sale price.
A fact sheet accompanying the release indicated that Go Daddy’s revenue has grown by more than 20 percent in each of the past several years.
The Go Daddy Group Inc. was founded in 1997 by Bob Parsons, who continues to serve as its CEO. The company, based in Scottsdale, Ariz., manages more than 48 million domain names, and sells other Internet-related technologies.
The big question is, “Will Danica Patrick keep doing those sexy commercials?”
Leading Democratic Blog Downgrades Angry Edd Houck’s Election Chances to “Toss-Up”
You know things are going bad for the Houck re-election campaign team when you have a liberal blog, The Daily KOS, marking up the Houck-Reeves race as a “toss-up” four-and-a-half months out from election day. Link here. This isn’t the first survey, poll, or pundit to indicate they think Houck’s dynasty is closing fast. The Washington Post called the race “hotly contested” recently, and at least three Democratic Virginia blogs, have hosted polls and surveys that indicated their readers want a change in leadership this election in Virginia’s 17th Senate District.
It’s bad when your own side is writing you off. But a 28-year run is nothing to be ashamed of. Edd has had it real good since the 1980′s, and maintains a stockpile of lobbyists’ election cash to ward off contenders.
The eternal victim, "Angry Edd Houck" may be coming after you next for the blame! Keep an eye out for the baby-blue signs of frustration and anger as his campaign flounders.
Army veteran and small business owner Bryce Reeves, Houck’s only known challenger to date, is certainly the underdog financially but that has not stopped Edd Houck from begging his supporters via email blasts for any amount they can spare.
Houck currently boasts a commanding 4.5:1 lead in on-hand cash as we head into the heavy part of the campaign season. What does he need so much cash for? He has left over marketing materials on hand and free campaign space (next door to struggling rent paying, tax paying, job-creating small businesses we should note.)
Houck has made it a fundraising mission to cry foul at every opportunity including citing this blog as unfairly characterizing his unwavering funding support of Planned Parenthood (the nation’s largest abortion chain), and linking it to the child sex-slave industry (to which it is unmistakably tied to in undercover videos of late.) Houck goes on at meetings and his transparent “meet-n-greets” (codeword for fundraiser) regularly about how he is “attacked” by the right-wing conspirators, his opponent (not true), the conservative media boogeyman, and of course Republicans— at every moment.
So Edd does what most liberals do to retaliate, he gets ANGRY! But are these crocodile tears aimed at getting support, sympathy and what every liberal loves best: more of other people’s MONEY? You betcha.
Houck has teamed up with a local land developer to get free rent and set up a campaign headquarters on Courthouse Road in Spotsylvania County about a mile from the Reeves HQ. In 28 years of holding the office, Edd has never needed a base of operations. He won year after year without much organization or any ground game. He used lobbyists money to purchase a slew of direct mail and radio ads, and he basically phoned it in. He must be really nervous this year though.
His record of raising taxes at every opportunity and redistributing the wealth of working Virginians to special interest groups and causes may have finally caught up with him. The money is running out as the working families simply don’t produce enough tax income for the appetite of a ever-expanding government payroll. This has left a void in promises versus delivery for Edd Houck and his traditionally supportive groups that he’s taken for granted like teachers and firemen for example.
He hasn’t been able to deliver lately, and teachers are not happy with him. Indeed, firefighters, police/sheriff, farmers and even college students are proactively coming to check out the Reeves campaign offices on a regular basis and voicing their concerns about their current senator. What they appreciate is that they receive straight-talk and not a hollow politician’s-promise. Most leave with a bumper sticker and yard sign. Some are still on the fence, but all have had one positive constituent experience under their belt.
Edd Houck has hired a professional campaign manager all the way from Arkansas to do his heavy lifting. Oddly enough, this campaign manager paid to attend a Reeves fundraiser and stayed all day… either spying to size up the competition, or looking for a future job perhaps. Maybe this is why Angry Edd needs more of your money?
In every election of his in 28 years, Angry Edd has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars *attacking* his opponents by bombarding voters with slick glossy mail ads, normally containing cartoon lampoons of his opponents in the final 3-4 weeks. You heard it here first folks.
Edd cannot survive this election without attacking his opponent mercilessly …an Army veteran, church deacon, former police detective and small business owner.
Edd Houck wants you to know that he is a victim of free speech and the First Amendment, and he needs your money because bloggers are beating him up in cyberspace. And this requires cash to combat apparently, though this entry cost me nothing to share with you.
‘Anonymous’ Calls for Flag Day Protest June 14, 2011; Calls for Bernanke to Step Down Immediately
According to TheRawStory.com, the most well-known hacker group, Anonymous, uploaded a video message to YouTube yesterday calling for Fed Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to resign.
Do we know the ‘real’ Anonymous made this video? That’s hard to say … because Anonymous is you and me. So I guess you made it since I know I didn’t.
“Democrats have failed us, Republicans have failed us… It is time for us to stand up for ourselves… We must fight back against the organized criminal class… We must launch “operation Empire State rebellion. The operation will commence on June 14th…Operation Empire State Rebellion Engaged.”
You may recall Anonymous first called for Bernanke to resign on March 12.
Anonymous even made a handy dandy Google Map guide for you to find the nearest protest.
“This Flag Day, Tuesday June 14th, we will launch a non-violent social movement with this list of demands: End the campaign finance and lobbying racket, Break up the Fed & Too Big to Fail banks, Enforce RICO laws against organized criminal class and Order Ben Bernanke to step down (my personal favorite).”
The Banks: #BofA, #Citibank, #Chase, #WF, #Ally
Want to help? Tweet: See FLAG DAY http://bit.ly/mdtXF3 #OpESR
Click on the $ on the map for rally info: #NYC #DC #Chicago #SF #STL #OKC #Flint #WI #Monterey
Here is more information about the Flag Day protest
The movement has also been referred to as, “CTRL+ALT_BERNANKE.”
Here is the Anonymous video message:
… but what this story’s mission directive lacks, is the “or else” factor… that’s what we look forward to hearing… and seeing the full wrath of Anonymous in action. This video is not a strong one and lacks the conviction and confidence that past ones have featured.
I like my hero-hackers to be bold and confident, but not braggards and arrogant. They should be liberating and highly ethical- enlightened even… but never destructive to the little guy or harmful to innocent bystanders. Take down the banks, their mean boards of directors, and their corrupt political allies, but leave the clerks and customers in the ATM booth alone please. Anonymous has done this in the past. Their actions have been swift and decisive.
This video above seems to be of a junior level to what they normally do, and as such, I’m not convinced it is authentic. More likely made by a couple of Hipsters jacked up on caffeine with a few hours to kill before the next trip to Hot Topic.
Splash Down 3 for Paul Milde is June 23rd at Hope Springs Marina- You’re Invited!
Hope you can make it- the last few years were a BLAST! Be sure to RSVP on the link below.
Fundraising Picnic for Paul V. Milde III, Aquia District Supervisor
Social at 6:30 – Dinner at 7:30
Thursday June 23, 2011
(6:30 PM)
at Hope Springs Marina
4 Hope Springs Lane
Stafford, VA
Jimmy Franklin’s Legendary BBQ Picnic — Rain or Shine — Casual Attire
For more information, call 703.338.2830 or email us generalinfo@paulmilde.com.
Paid for and authorized by Friends of Paul Milde
The College Bubble – About to Burst?
“They” are doing it again… first the Credit Card bubble, next the Mortgage Bubble, now the College Bubble. This video illustrates the huge scam being perpetrated on our generation and the next via loans for schools that no one can ever pay back.
Watch and learn how these loans, and the brainwashing that we all must attain a college degree, are destroying families.
Going “Paperless”; Will American States Follow Iceland in Declaring Independence from International Bank debt?
As rumors of considering secession become more of a plausible alternative to a state government instead of the fringe idealist battle cry that it is often considered; we must first take a look at the effects of breaking off from the Union.
Money and national security are the two biggest reasons to not leave the union. We need both as a state to survive… or do we?
When the biggest modern enemy we face is not a hoard of soldiers marching over a hill with muskets, but rather a single suicide bomber with a nuke in his backpack, one wonders what a standing army can really do for domestic wars of this millennium that a strong state militia with good coordinated intelligence gathering can’t handle (foreign armies are excluded from this supposition since Canada and Mexico aren’t massing troops at the moment.) It would seem that we’d be more likely to get invaded by the remaining 49, 48, or 47 states to “re-unify” its resources and taxpaupers (formerly taxpayer, now broke). After all, it worked for Lincoln once already, so there is precedent.
Additionally, when we have currency that is utterly worthless (aka a Federal Reserve “Note”) as it’s issued by a private bank and is no more than a promise to pay a dollar of air for every dollar you have, one wonders what exactly anyone would do to your state if you didn’t pay back the trillions in debt owed to the private bank—”The Fed”.
After all, our states have the militia and the Fed has marble buildings with vaults that close at 2pm… hardly a threat. It becomes more of a moot issue when you learn that only about three percent of ALL transactions in America are done with paper and coin money! So all those pallets of cash you see in the movies account for less than a “tip” if you spent all that cash at Starbucks. So, what if you just “unplugged” yourself from that monetary system and send them a paper letter saying you promise to pay back your share of the debt as soon as you can? Sure, they would send you a paper letter back taking your state to international court where you may lose the case and be sent a piece of paper to order you to pay the banks back, “or else.” But again, courts have gavels and robes, not much of a threat there either.
Discussions in Texas, New Hampshire, and Washington state of secession have reached as far as the statehouse floors within the past decade, with various Internet sources citing between 15 and 25 more states having fairly serious conversations about it today. We have dozens of states calling for a Constitutional convention to attempt a fix to the current crisis of overreaching federal hands in private lives. Virginia is paving the way for suing to get out of Obamacare mandates and many are following suit. All that is fine and dandy, but still doesn’t get to the root of most of the corruption and problems… money supply. Banks have it, and people generally think we all “need” it.
But recall and research if you will, bartering and trading throughout human history, and you’ll learn that we actually got along pretty well as a species long before a banker created “easy money.” People used to work for money. They had a trade and craft. They performed a service of value to others worth paying for… it wasn’t until “paper” with pictures on it became so “valuable” that we all wanted it instead of food, clothes, and durable goods. Sure, it works as a system when everyone is honest about how much paper something is worth, and we generally can agree on a system of price setting that’s fair and attainable for the average day of work… but what happens when that number becomes blurry? Like say, $7.00 for a gallon of gas, or $190/barrel of oil, and the trickle down effects set in of a Big Mac now costing $11.00 all of a sudden. It all comes crashing down that’s what. Bankers get overly greedy and monetary systems collapse. The digital age has brought consumer access to knowledge to an instant, so nothing happens gradually or over time any more. This works for catastrophes as well as solutions though.
The politicians can’t be bought off fast enough to pass laws to control people and keep them enslaved to the cash, and even the banks now realize that dumb politicians have raised their price above the rate of corruption’s inflation! So we little people are left with some decisions to make in the next couple decades and election cycles…. are we going to remain slaves to the international bankers and their puppets in the U.S. Federal Government who help to enslave us, or are we going to walk away and tell them that the paper check is in the mail to pay back the paper notes they gave us to run the state all these years? We can always sell state paper bonds to fund the paper checks if we need to, right?
I certainly have no idea what will end up happening in Virginia, but I suspect that the country will get a lot worse for a while financially before the helping hands are offered to us at the last-minute. Whether we reach out for the banks to solve the crisis by loaning even more paper money, or communism ideals, or incorporate into a North American Union to spread the debt out to new suckers, or foreign ownership of our debt, or simply just “quit” is anyone’s guess. I think it’s fair to say that “change” IS coming, and it’s going to happen fast for some states.
Here’s what Iceland did recently, and it’s something we should look at and discuss.
Iceland is free. And it will remain so, so long as her people wish to remain autonomous of the foreign domination of her would-be masters — in this case, international bankers.
On April 9, the fiercely independent people of island-nation defeated a referendum that would have bailed out the UK and the Netherlands who had covered the deposits of British and Dutch investors who had lost funds in Icesave bank in 2008.
At the time of the bank’s failure, Iceland refused to cover the losses. But the UK and Netherlands nonetheless have demanded that Iceland repay them for the “loan” as a condition for admission into the European Union.
In response, the Icelandic people have told Europe to go pound sand. The final vote was 103,207 to 69,462, or 58.9 percent to 39.7 percent. “Taxpayers should not be responsible for paying the debts of a private institution,” said Sigriur Andersen, a spokeswoman for the Advice group that opposed the bailout.
A similar referendum in 2009 on the issue, although with harsher terms, found 93.2 percent of the Icelandic electorate rejecting a proposal to guarantee the deposits of foreign investors who had funds in the Icelandic bank. The referendum was invoked when President Olafur Ragnur Grimmson vetoed legislation the Althingi, Iceland’s parliament, had passed to pay back the British and Dutch.
Under the terms of the agreement, Iceland would have had to pay £2.35 billion to the UK, and €1.32 billion to the Netherlands by 2046 at a 3 percent interest rate. Its rejection for the second time by Iceland is a testament to its people, who feel they should bear no responsibility for the losses of foreigners endured in the financial crisis.
That opposition to bailouts led to Iceland’s decision to allow the bank to fail in 2008. Not that the taxpayers there could have afforded to. As noted by Bloomberg News, at the time the crisis hit in 2008, “the banks had debts equal to 10 times Iceland’s $12 billion GDP.”
“These were private banks and we didn’t pump money into them in order to keep them going; the state did not shoulder the responsibility of the failed private banks,” Iceland President Olafur Grimsson told Bloomberg Television.
The voters’ rejection came despite threats to isolate Iceland from funding in international financial institutions. Iceland’s national debt has already been downgraded by credit rating agencies, and now those same agencies have promised to do so once again as punishment for defying the will of international bankers.
This is just the latest in the long drama since 2008 of global institutions refusing to take losses in the financial crisis. Threats of a global economic depression and claims of being “too big to fail” have equated to a loaded gun to the heads of representative governments in the U.S. and Europe. Iceland is of particular interest because it did not bail out its banks like Ireland did, or foreign ones like the U.S. did.
If that fervor catches on amongst taxpayers worldwide, as it has in Iceland and with the tea party movement in America, the banks would have something to fear; that is, the inability to draw from limitless amounts of funding from gullible government officials and central banks. It appears that the root cause is government guarantees, whether explicit or implicit, on risk-taking by the banks.
Ultimately, such guarantees are not necessary to maintain full employment or even prop up an economy with growth, they are simply designed to allow these international institutions to overleverage and increase their profit margins in good times — and to avoid catastrophic losses in bad times.
The lesson here is instructive across the pond, but it is a chilling one. If the U.S. — or any sovereign for that matter — attempts to restructure their debts, or to force private investors to take a haircut on their own foolish gambles, these international institutions have promised the equivalent of economic war in response. However, the alternative is for representative governments to sacrifice their independence to a cadre of faceless bankers who share no allegiance to any nation.
It is the conflict that has already defined the beginning of the 21st Century. The question is whether free peoples will choose to remain free, as Iceland has, or to submit.
Bill Wilson is the President of Americans for Limited Government. You can follow Bill on Twitter at @BillWilsonALG.
Committee of 500- A Front for More Liberal Taxation and Control of Spotsylvania County?
from SpotsyGOP.com’s blog ‘On The Spot’
For Immediate Release
Contact: Steven Thomas
703-819-0127
Sgt1997@gmail.com
Statement of Spotsylvania GOP Chairman on the Committee of 500 Forum
While we respect the attempt to bring the public together in a forum, the Committee of 500 gathering Sunday was a disappointment. Our disappointment stems from the presentations, including one espousing the merits of the local government controlling the development process rather than allowing free market economic forces to guide it, while protecting property rights. Another presented the need for the General Assembly to provide more revenues to the local governments or for the local government to find new ways to raise the revenues. Or better put, have the taxpayers pay more in taxes at a local and state level.
We had thought that the statism espoused by the speakers and C-500 Board members was discredited with the failure of the Democratically-controlled Congress and Administration. But this group- many of which actually supported and endorsed Obama, including C-500 Chair Christine Lynch and Chancellor supervisor Hap Connors- has sadly become a proxy for the Spotsylvania Democrats.
While each speaker gave reasons why taxes should go up in perpetuity and government should get ever-larger, the voices of many participants- including many Spotsylvania Republicans- seemed to be dismissed in favor of infringement on property rights, runaway government spending, and the seeming “fairfaxization” of Spotsylvania. Even more disappointing was how out of touch some in the room were as to the main challenge of the time- jobs and economic development.
There was no better example of this than the list of groups that were not invited to the narrow echo-chamber. Where were the Spotsylvania Landowners’ Assocation? Where was the local Farm Bureau? Where was the local Chamber of Commerce? In fact, those with the greatest stake in the local private economy and on the front lines in job creation were never even notified of this forum, let alone invited to it.
The Spotsylvania Republicans will continue to focus on economic development by seeking industries that would add to the employment base to the county and offer current residents the opportunity to work locally. We will resist the growth of taxes and government as the priorities that we believe most Spotsylvanians share with us.
