STUMBLEUPON Toolbar

Ok guys, if I haven't mentioned yet, you have GOT to download and install the Stumbleupon toolbar. StumbleUpon (SU) is a cool add-in for your browser, although I do have some trouble getting it to properly work within IE 6.0, which I currently use with Mozilla Firefox. It does not include spyware or adware as I have verified this through free downloads of SpyBlaster and Ad-Aware. You train it to know your preferences by choosing LIKE or NOT FOR ME and it brings up some neat websites. I have found countless cool sites and really helpful ones, and I must admit, some relatively strange ones. Anyway, this is NOT one of those, "If you put us on your website you'll get listed" or anything, its just something that I have spent many hours on and enjoy and thought that someone here reading this, (is there anyone?) might enjoy it also! So enjoy. The Republicans start their travesty of American politics tomorrow night. I am sure I'll be upping the dosage of Paxil and trying breathing techniques to keep my blood pressure down. The way they have deputized New York City is a great injustice to freedom. The MTV Video Music Awards (VMA)s have had to move their show to Miami. I know, not a big deal, but the Republicans figure they can take Washington DC, then why not the biggest city in the United States!

Until next time, check out StumbleUpon.com!

Nick Yaekle
Columbus, OH USA
The Voice


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EPISTLIC POEM OF THE MONTH

The Voice of the Disenfranchised

POSTMAN PLEASE DELIVER THIS EPISTLE TO
Ms Lovva Meyeliffe
666 Brokenman Sorrow Lane
Lovelessland, HBK, USA


Mercilessly
She fell out of his life
Somewhat like the fuel in a 747
Lasting only long enough
To perform a duty
Leaving behind only scattered memories
Amidst the brackish smoke
And rag tag rubble
Celibate tears haunt my tabletops
Obstinate pride preventing a reunification.

August 25, 2004

Copyright 2004 by Nicholas P. Yaekle The Voice of the Disenfranchised. All rights reserved. Feel free to quote this or any postings on my weblog so long as my name appears along with a link to www.the-voice.blogspot.com .

Submit Express

I was taking a look at Kevin Rose's website host of G4 TechTV's The ScreenSavers (an excellent show, by the way) and found this handy dandy little website called Submit Express, which has a whole host of neat little tools for creating and maintaining a website or a blog or whatever. While doing some of the little tools, it got me to thinking about the manner in which I post my entries into my weblog and the words that I choose. Half of me wants to write a senseless essay with words that might be hit. So I decided to post a link to them from my 'blog. Now I have noticed in the past when I copy and paste HTML text that some things seem to come up a litte funky. So if you see a bunch of garbled junk around the link, please chalk that up to ignorance. Columbus. Ohio. OH. United States. Westside. Hilltop. Yaekle. Yeakle. Nicky. Max Yaekle. Media Play. Montblanc. Mont Blanc. Gay. Lesbian. Bisexual. Drag Queen. Monoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Of course, thanks to Mrs. Karen Hanas, my fourth grade teacher at Hamilton Central Elementary in Hamilton Local School District in what is now, regretfully, Obetz, Ohio OH. Please take note, the end of this little diatribe is purely commercial and I regret that I have sold my soul and VOICE to the hounds of society and greed and am becoming a corporate sponsor. But not unlike Phyllis Wheatly and Booker T. Washington, as a writer, I will sell my soul in order to have my voice, THE VOICE, heard! Thank you for your support, Dolly Parton, Peter Allen, George Jones, Peggy Lee, Judy Garland, Tammy Wynette, Dean Martin, and all the others that influenced me. By the way, some of my family is from Buffalo, West Virginia WV Putnam County USA! Man, what a whore I am!



Search Engine Optimization and Free Submission

Changes

Like life, the only true thing we know we can count on are changes. I have decided with the potential for increased traffic to change the template and layout of the page. While fooling around with the HTML and the layout template, I think I kinda screwed up a couple of things. Therefore, if anyone IS out there reading this (and please feel free to comment or email me anytime) ONCE AGAIN excuse the superfluous rantings and tests.

If we can't have Al Sharpton and Ann Richards in the Executive Branch of the Federal Government, then VOTE a STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC ticket and let's eradicate the squatter in the Oval Office, the commander-in-thief (thank you Michael Moore for those monikers that I so surrepticiously lifted!) and put the Honorable Senator John Forbes Kerry and Honorable John Edwards in the White House!

Yours Democratically,
Nick Yaekle
The Voice of the Disenfranchised

ONE LAST TIME. . .TONIGHT!!!

Ok folks and closet Democrats wishing to become as enlightened as those of us who are OUT AND PROUD! This is the last time tonight. Please note that if you're interested in how many people read or have read my blog, should that sort of status be important to you, that I have added a new site counter provided by bravenet at the bottom. While tinkering around with template, I seemingly lost my bottom counter from SiteMeter and couldn't get it back. So the most accurate, although placed on the blog a couple of months after I started it, would be the SiteMeter counter. Feel free to refresh as many times as you wish!! ! I mean, site hits aren't important to me!

Liberally yours,
Nick Yaekle
The Voice of the Disenfranchised
Columbus, OH (Ohio) United States of America

Explanation on all the New Links

In my quest to have my voice (The-Voice) heard, I have submitted my weblog to various internet search engines. I am happy to report that GOOGLE has finally picked me up! While I know that with hardcore phreakers, crackers, hackers, and internet gurus, Google is not the most popular search engine, I use it as my default search engine because it is universally the biggest one there is. And while I recognize and apologize for not having posted any pieces of signifigance as of late, please bear with me as I am working on trying to get more people reading. The apathy of the American people concerning our moral and political injustices, like the theft of the 2000 election by the United States Supreme Court and the perennial theft of national elections by an outdated and unjust electoral college system (which, by the by, when we are helping other nations establish Democracies we DO NOT set up an electoral college system of voting and electors for them!) not only amazes me, but frightens me. And I have a feeling this indifference makes an otherwise stately and firm Benjamin Franklin, the original "rebel" and liberal revolutionist, roll over in his proverbial grave.
So, again, please stick with The-Voice, and as soon as I get some things figured out (like posting my picture on here) and some of the search engines on board, I PROMISE there will be more meaty posts, including a weekly Campaign 2004 Comments feature. Additionally, if you see a bunch of HTML around any of the posts, its probably because I have tried to add something new and have been unsuccessful!

With kind and cordial regards and appreciation,
Nicholas P. Yaekle, The Voice of the Disenfranchised

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Ten Things We Can Do To Defeat the Bush-Cheney Terrorist Regime and Restore American Democracy

I was using my new favorite web browser, Mozilla Firefox with several extensions, and there is this cool little feature you can use called www.stumbleupon.com , which adds a toolbar to the top of your browser and lets you visit various sites geared toward past ones which you have rated. With this I stumbled on a site that showed various links. One link is the following, which was a link to a list compiled and/or created by the San Francisco Bay Guardian concerning the importance of defeating Bush and Dick in November. I felt compelled to include this link on my blog for any of those actually reading this.

The Voice is working on the essay concerning the 2004 Democratic National Convention and should have it online within the next couple of days.

VOTE DEMOCRATIC!