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You've found the blog of Jere Matlock, a web designer and writer. This journal is mostly about writing, web design and getting sites to the top of the search engines (SEO is my business). It is also full of opinions and observations about pretty much everything. If these things are not of interest to you, feel free to go now. Go on, shoo!

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By the way, if you feel like taking offense at something posted on this site, go right ahead, it won't bother me a bit. Kingsley Amis has a nice quote about that, in which I take solace and some pride when the flames arrive:

"If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing."

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Anti-Scientology Task Force Closing Down in Hamburg

August 22nd, 2010

Another one bites the dust: the City of Hamburg, Germany, is closing down its Anti-Scientology task force. They cite economic hardship as the reason. One could also deduce that a decade of human rights violations and a total failure to accomplish anything had something to do with closing it down.

The driving force of that task force, Ursula Caberta, took a $75,000 bribe a few years back from an anti-Scientologist and was fined 7,500 Euros in 2002 for that corruption. She’s now going to work in the city’s Interior Ministry. As one of my sarcastic friends put it: “There she …

Psychiatrist decries "our psychiatric civilization"

May 25th, 2010

I can’t recall ever linking to an article in the Huffington Post before. It’s not a site I read regularly, but once in a while they publish something worth reading. Today it was an article by psychiatrist Dr. Peter Breggin, on Our Psychiatric Civilization.

I disagree with Dr. Breggin’s stand on some issues, but he nails the issues in this article pretty well.

Numbing down Western Civilization with psych drugs so people can’t feel real emotions and don’t know what to do with them when they do, is not the answer to the emotional problems people face. …

Lies Anderson Cooper Told Us

May 25th, 2010

What a snake Mr. Anderson Cooper turns out to be. Worse even than that old fossil Dan Rather:

Anderson Cooper lies about “slave camp”

Anderson Cooper lies about “a beating every day”

Anderson Cooper couldn’t investigate his own ass with both hands in his back pockets

Just more proof that if the facts don’t fit the slant of an article or news show, then the facts are omitted.

It makes me glad that people are leaving CNN viewship in droves. With crap like this from Anderson Cooper, it’s no wonder.

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Win from Narconon – This program has given me my life back

May 23rd, 2010

This is the kind of personal win one can expect from doing the Narconon Drug Rehab Program

When I arrived here at Narconon, I had lost all hope in life and myself. I was defeated and living on the streets, smoking crack. Being in an abusive relationship brought me so low I felt like I would just rather die. When I was first here I wouldn’t talk to anyone in fear they would hurt me or put me down. I never, in a million years, imagined I could feel so good. This program has given me my life back.

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2010 Tax Day Tea Party Protest – Coos Bay, Oregon

April 18th, 2010

We had a Tea Party protest in Coos bay on April 15th (tax day) 2010, where about 200 people demonstrated. I participated, and had a great time. The weather cooperated and we had a sunny afternoon protest against runaway taxation, creeping (or should I say “leaping”) socialism, and infringement on our God-given rights by the idiots in Washington and Salem.

There were several candidates who spoke; none were from major parties. Among the crowd, there seemed to be almost as much resentment of RINO’s as there were of Democrats. As one speaker pointed out, the mood of the demonstrators …

John Eberhard’s Link Building Tips: recommended reading

April 17th, 2010

A few years back I helped John Eberhard get educated in the techniques of search engine optimization, when he was starting his Real Web Marketing company. He does good work in SEO and web marketing now and he sends out a regular newsletter that I always read when it arrives; it is usually packed with good info and he summarizes the state of things very well. He recently put out a list of tips for website link building that was fairly complete and worth reading and doing. Recommended reading if you do any link building or are trying …

What’s the difference between 12-step drug treatment programs and other drug treatment programs?

April 7th, 2010

Guest post today from John Daily:

What is the difference in drug treatment programs, and what is the best type of drug rehab available? This is a common question for people researching drug treatment for a loved one or who have an addiction problem themselves.

Two fundamental differences that separate drug rehabs are “The 12 steps” and the “Non-12 Step.” Following are the main differences between the two types of drug treatment programs, and why one is better than the other.

According to the General Service Office of Alcoholics Anonymous, in 2007, there were 1,867,212 members of the

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SortFix – a clever way to refine Google search results

April 6th, 2010

Arya Schellemberg of SortFix sent me an intro to their new service; it adds a layer on top of Google search results that lets you easily refine a search by moving search terms around in various boxes. Quite clever, actually. I think it has a bright future.

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How one determined drug addict spearheaded effective drug rehabilitation around the world

January 8th, 2010

The good folks over at Narconon recently put together this video about the early days of Narconon, which has now been saving lives for over 40 years.

Although I found out about the Narconon drug rehabilitation program in 1972 when I was working in Los Angeles, and I visited their drug rehab center, I never met Willie Benitez. But I heard the story; as an addict and prisoner at Arizona State Prison in the mid-1960′s, Willie figured out how to apply some of the information developed by L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientology …

New Neal Fox video – "Ask Your Doctor" is a hoot

January 5th, 2010

Love this new video from Neal Fox called “Ask your Doctor”. Turn up the sound and enjoy!

Be sure to read the text at the end: 100,000 people die from “correct” prescription drugs in the USA every year. Neal posits that the purpose of the FDA is no longer to “protect the public”, but that the FDA’s purpose now is to “protect the drug companies.” I think he’s on to something there….

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