Obama continues to deny his Socialist agenda.
His latest attempt is to deflect the accusation through misleading analogy and humor. The problem is his analogy is grossly misleading: sharing your toys or your peanut butter and jelly sandwich is charitable and praiseworthy.
The problem is that he wants to take my money and your money and "spread it around". The correct analogy to what he wants to do is he wants to go take your peanut butter and jelly sandwich and give it to whomever he feels better deserves it.
Never mind that you worked hard for your sandwich; never mind that you were looking at the poor kind across the lunchroom yourself to share your own sandwich through charity. And never mind that in the process of giving your sandwich to someone else Obama (representing big government) will take a couple of bites out himself. This is the true analogy and this could be construed as Socialism, Marxism, or Communism depending on how your look at it. I personally use the least severe term "Socialism" because I believe the other two terms present a level of coercion Obama has yet to put forth.
The final point to all this is that Obama is a deciever: he is trying to deceive Americans into believing his agenda is charitable, not his true socialist colors.
Interpride - Vancouver - Oct 23-25, 2008
This was my first Interpride convention I'd attended thus far, and I can definitely say I'm looking forward to the 2009 Interpride Convention in St. Petersburg, Florida next year.
I had the opportunity to present a full hour of Web 2.0 and Social Network marketing tips to the conference attendees, and it went over very well. Getting that out of the way on a nice Thursday morning allowed me to relax for the rest of the conference and hang out with all of my new Interpride friends, where we had one of our first evening events at Celebrity's Nightclub in downtown Vancouver. Somehow the night just took us away, and the next thing I know we're off dancing with more new Interpride friends at the neighboring club, Odyssey. Good times!
The wine tasting event on Friday night was another winner, and on Saturday the Gala Dinner brought us all together for one final evening of great food and fun entertainment. Of course we all wandered off to Celebrity's again (after a pit stop for a hotel room party with 10 of our Interpride friends), where we had an incredible grande finale with both conference folks and the locals!!!!
Overall, well worth the time... great networking, educational workshops and people! And the presentations for Worldpride 2012 by Stockholm and London were over the top and well done by both teams... with the 2012 winning city being London!
Photo Link: http://picasaweb.google.com/mattskal/InterprideVancouverOct23252008?authkey=Xyr_vu3AO9c
Links:
- http://www.interpride.org
- http://www.pridelondon.org
I had the opportunity to present a full hour of Web 2.0 and Social Network marketing tips to the conference attendees, and it went over very well. Getting that out of the way on a nice Thursday morning allowed me to relax for the rest of the conference and hang out with all of my new Interpride friends, where we had one of our first evening events at Celebrity's Nightclub in downtown Vancouver. Somehow the night just took us away, and the next thing I know we're off dancing with more new Interpride friends at the neighboring club, Odyssey. Good times!
The wine tasting event on Friday night was another winner, and on Saturday the Gala Dinner brought us all together for one final evening of great food and fun entertainment. Of course we all wandered off to Celebrity's again (after a pit stop for a hotel room party with 10 of our Interpride friends), where we had an incredible grande finale with both conference folks and the locals!!!!
Overall, well worth the time... great networking, educational workshops and people! And the presentations for Worldpride 2012 by Stockholm and London were over the top and well done by both teams... with the 2012 winning city being London!
Photo Link: http://picasaweb.google.com/mattskal/InterprideVancouverOct23252008?authkey=Xyr_vu3AO9c
Links:
- http://www.interpride.org
- http://www.pridelondon.org
NGLCC and their New York Team
We all had a great time in NYC this past week... I flew out for some meetings and to do a presentation to Justin Nelson, Chance Mitchell and the NGLCC board about social network marketing and Web 2.0... a lot of good questions were raised and it'll be exciting to see how this new form of marketing integrates nicely into the current success story that NGLCC is today!
Afterwards, of course, we all met for happy hour, where I got a chance to spend more quality time with Vince of Wells Fargo and Brady from the Guggenheim Museum, as well as Rob Shmalo and Matt Link. Also joining us were Richard Oceguera and Thomas Kovaleskie, the two guys heading up the NGLCC-NY team. It was the start of a GREAT evening!
Afterwards, of course, we all met for happy hour, where I got a chance to spend more quality time with Vince of Wells Fargo and Brady from the Guggenheim Museum, as well as Rob Shmalo and Matt Link. Also joining us were Richard Oceguera and Thomas Kovaleskie, the two guys heading up the NGLCC-NY team. It was the start of a GREAT evening!
Howard Bragman's New Book - Where's My Fifteen Minutes
As you may already know, PR Veteran Howard Bragman and Founder of Fifteen Minutes has a new book coming out the first part of 2009 titled, Where’s My Fifteen Minutes?
So what can one find in this book? Well, for one, there really is a heterosexual guy on TV. And he's actually quiet about it! And he's even played a gay! We're talking about Doug Savant, who portrays Tom Scavo on Desperate Housewives, but who first rose to attention as the fagelah Matt on Melrose Place. This all comes up in Howard Bragman's upcoming book, Where's My Fifteen Minutes?, an exploration of the p.r. game and how to make it work for you.
So what can one find in this book? Well, for one, there really is a heterosexual guy on TV. And he's actually quiet about it! And he's even played a gay! We're talking about Doug Savant, who portrays Tom Scavo on Desperate Housewives, but who first rose to attention as the fagelah Matt on Melrose Place. This all comes up in Howard Bragman's upcoming book, Where's My Fifteen Minutes?, an exploration of the p.r. game and how to make it work for you.Check it out at:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/dailymusto/archives/2008/10/shocker_hollywo.php
Community Marketing Conference in Vancouver was GREAT as usual!
It seems like this past week has been a whirlwind. We all arrived in Vancouver on Sunday night, October 5th, for the opening night cocktail reception at the Sheraton and as usual, this night proved to be a prelude to what turned into a fantastic week of workshops, panels, seminars and good old fashioned networking with some of the leaders in the GLBT travel industry.
Highlights include the party at Celebrity's on Tuesday night, hosted by Mya Lake Reyes of the Las Vegas CVA. But that was the closing night party... in between Sunday and Tuesday night, we were entertained by Travelocity at an incredible party at Oasis, as well as some over the top dinners with our friends at both PlanetOut.com (thanks to Gus Preston and Scott Furman) at Delilah's and Logo.com thanks to Matthew Habib.
At the workshops, some of the new information we learned included the Bear market thanks to Stevo of A Bear's Life Magazine (but Stevo, some of those video clips were just a tad over the top!) as well as the youth market thanks to Scott Marquardt of Chester + Company from Halifax. We also learned more about the concept of marketing to "personas" or types, helping everyone in the audience understand better about the wide variety of folks in the GLBT community, ranging from party boys to yuppie professionals to seniors to adventurers, just to name a few.
The travel expo, open to the public, was fun and included our famous Dallas Cowboys (no, not the football team) posing for us, as well as the hot Mr Gay Priape of Vancouver strutting his hot stuff! Yolaine of the Canadian Tourism Commission stopped on by with her beautiful 2-month old baby daughter... I thought Christian might have been the father, but alas, it wasn't to be the case!
As we wound down Wednesday morning, about half the crowd had already gone home, but for those that stayed, we had a really entertaining and educational panel on topics ranging from Web 2.0 and the GLBT market to the online lesbian market to advanced banner advertising concepts, and wrapped up with a very dynamic presentation on mobile marketing.
All in all, another incredible event put on by Tom Roth, David Paisley and the entire Community Marketing team! Looking forward to next year's events in London and Boston.
Photo album: http://picasaweb.google.com/mattskal/CMIConferenceVancouverOct582008
Links:
- www.communitymarketing.com
- www.gaytravelexpo.com
Highlights include the party at Celebrity's on Tuesday night, hosted by Mya Lake Reyes of the Las Vegas CVA. But that was the closing night party... in between Sunday and Tuesday night, we were entertained by Travelocity at an incredible party at Oasis, as well as some over the top dinners with our friends at both PlanetOut.com (thanks to Gus Preston and Scott Furman) at Delilah's and Logo.com thanks to Matthew Habib.
At the workshops, some of the new information we learned included the Bear market thanks to Stevo of A Bear's Life Magazine (but Stevo, some of those video clips were just a tad over the top!) as well as the youth market thanks to Scott Marquardt of Chester + Company from Halifax. We also learned more about the concept of marketing to "personas" or types, helping everyone in the audience understand better about the wide variety of folks in the GLBT community, ranging from party boys to yuppie professionals to seniors to adventurers, just to name a few.
The travel expo, open to the public, was fun and included our famous Dallas Cowboys (no, not the football team) posing for us, as well as the hot Mr Gay Priape of Vancouver strutting his hot stuff! Yolaine of the Canadian Tourism Commission stopped on by with her beautiful 2-month old baby daughter... I thought Christian might have been the father, but alas, it wasn't to be the case!
As we wound down Wednesday morning, about half the crowd had already gone home, but for those that stayed, we had a really entertaining and educational panel on topics ranging from Web 2.0 and the GLBT market to the online lesbian market to advanced banner advertising concepts, and wrapped up with a very dynamic presentation on mobile marketing.
All in all, another incredible event put on by Tom Roth, David Paisley and the entire Community Marketing team! Looking forward to next year's events in London and Boston.
Photo album: http://picasaweb.google.com/mattskal/CMIConferenceVancouverOct582008
Links:
- www.communitymarketing.com
- www.gaytravelexpo.com
October 2008 Gay Business Report
Monthly Gay Business ReportOctober 2008 Edition
A monthly companion piece to the annual Gay Market Report, this monthly publication features select new articles from the Gay Market Report, as well as Current GLBT Business News relevant to companies targeting the GLBT community. In addition, we're featuring a variety of company spotlights on unique companies in the GLBT space, as well as successful companies reaching the GLBT community.
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