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Sunday, August 9, 2009
Government For And By The People .... Gone Forever????
Everyone needs to wake up and realize no matter what party is in power government will never be for the people, ever, again. It's all about money and power. Politicians work hard, mainly campaigning for money to win their next election. Everything is up to you....don't count on what you see and hear from Government, only what they do. Having an honest debate is important but the first thing liberals say, but, in the Bush Administration .... get over it. Bush is living a great life in Texas enjoying his millions. Obama will be doing the same thing once he is out of office. The biggest mistake many Americans make is thinking someone in Government REALLY CARES about you!! Everything you see, read, and hear is about perception selling and the saddest part of all: MANY BELIEVE IT!! Read Dr. Wayne Dyer, who didn't care for Bush, new book: EXCUSES BEGONE. You will realize your life and lifestyle is not predicated by what Government does .... it's about you, what you are, what you do, and what you become. Everyone needs to realize being self-supporting and independent is up to you not some lobby support bureaucrat in DC or in your state legislature.We are living in a world where we believe perception is TRUTH! Nothing could be further from actuality. Most TV shows, liberal and conservatives, are not about TRUTH, rather about RANKINGS and MONEY. And most are about entertainment to sustain those rankings.Michell Malkin can back up her statements with facts, something, most cannot do. When will Americans stop, look, listen, and fully understand and appreciate TRUTH? If anyone believes government is about anything other than getting re-elected, power, money, and finding ways to spend it, you are in for disappointment after disappointment until THE SUN SETS IN YOUR LIFE. I do know some truthful Congress People, but, guess what, you never see them on TV. They get up each day and try to do what's right for American Citizens, not be thinking of what their next sound bite will be! Ask yourself this: If there were no lobbyist; if there was no fund raising; if everyone had to conduct their campaigns by grassroots marketing; if they had to use their own money and were limited to donations of $1, how many of the current politicians would be in office? Who would be in office if we had a 100% turn out of eligible voters? The reason politicians are so eager to pass all this legislation is because they will be entering their campaign modes shortly.Another question: Why do we not get daily body counts any more? Men and women are loosing their lives each day and it's not reported in the vile veracious way it was the last 8 years. Wanna changed government??: HOW ABOUT A LAW ON TERM LIMITS? If we had term limits of 6 years for the House and Senate and 8 years for President (which we have), that would give each politician, a collective chance to served 12-20 years in Government....isn't that enough? Not to mention, many of them stay in DC as lobbyists, advisers, consultants, after they are out-of-office, making more money than ever. Most people believe politics is this tight little circle of people in DC...I state and believe it's a tight global circle that is headed towards dominance of citizens around the world. The "golf ball of politics" needs it's cover opened; all the rubbery windings removed, which will expose what really makes a golf ball react the way it does. What is it? The small energy dissipation core, which represents world dominance and control by a small group of very wealthy people from around the world. All other components are smoke screens that obliterates transparency of it's core, while providing protection and secretcy. Most everything of substance and significance is about money and power and attaining more money and power for a select few. Human beings are but scrap recipients of a much larger, more powerful global effort. Thank you Michelle for exposing corruption, deceit, and lies, regardless of where it emanates!!
Signing Statements .... Power Without Accountability
The president has signed a bill that expands assistance to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank while requiring the administration to pressure the organizations to adopt certain policies. Obama said he could disregard the negotiation instructions under his power to conduct foreign relations.
Will You Dance With Me?
Too many people put off something that brings them joy just because they haven't thought about it, don't have it on their schedule, didn't know it was coming or are too rigid to depart from their routine. I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night in an effort to cut back. From then on, I've tried to be a little more flexible. How many women out there will eat at home because their husband didn't suggest going out to dinner until after something had been thawed? Does the word 'refrigeration' mean nothing to you?
How often have your kids dropped in to talk and sat in silence while you watched 'Jeopardy' on television? I cannot count the times I called my sister and said, 'How about going to lunch in a half hour?' She would gasp and stammer, 'I can't. I have clothes on the line. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known yesterday. I had a late breakfast. It looks like rain.' And my personal favorite: 'It's Monday.' She died a few years ago. We never did have lunch together. Because Americans cram so much into their lives, we tend to schedule our headaches.. We live on a sparse diet of promises we make to ourselves when all the conditions are perfect! We'll go back and visit the grandparents when we get Steve toilet-trained. We'll entertain when we replace the living-room carpet. We'll go on a second honeymoon when we get two more kids out of college. Life has a way of accelerating as we get older. The days get shorter, and the list of promises to ourselves gets longer. One morning, we awaken, and all we have to show for our lives is a litany of 'I'm going to,' 'I plan on,' and 'Someday, when things are settled down a bit.' When anyone calls my 'seize the moment' friend, she is open to adventure and available for trips. She keeps an open mind on new ideas. Her enthusiasm for life is contagious. You talk with her for five minutes, and you're ready to trade your bad feet for a pair of roller blades and skip an elevator for a bungee cord. My lips have not touched ice cream in 10 years I love ice cream. It's just that I might as well apply it directly to my stomach with a spatula and eliminate the digestive process The other day, I stopped the car and bought a triple-decker. If my car had hit an iceberg on the way home, I would have died happy.
Now...go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT to......not something on your SHOULD DO list.
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? Have you ever watched kids playing on a merry go round or listened to the rain lapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight or gazed at the sun into the fading night? Do you run through each day on the fly? When you ask ' How are you?' Do you hear the reply? When the day is done, do you lie in your bed with the next hundred chores running through your head? Ever told your child, 'We'll do it tomorrow.' And in your haste, not see his sorrow? Ever lost touch? Let a good friendship die? Just call to say 'Hi'?
Twitter’s DOS Attack (And Why Social Media Sucks)
by Michelle MacPhearson
This week, Twitter was hammered by a DOS (denial of service) attack. I have no idea what that means, other than it’s some kind of server attack that’ll make your site go down.
So as part of this attack, Twitter was down for some time. If you could get on Twitter, tweets that seemed to go through didn’t actually appear in your follower’s timelines for hours.
No biggie, right? A minor inconvenience, not being able to use the service.
But what if your whole communications platform, your entire social media strategy, was based on Twitter? You’d have been SOL, to say the least, while Twitter was under attack.
You must never, ever rely on one service to get your message out.
Use Twitter? Great - it’s a fun platform for engaging readers, and if you’re interesting it’ll bring your site click-through visitors. But you shouldn’t be using JUST Twitter (or any other service) to communicate with your customers, readers or clients.
Get a Facebook fan page (look at the Fan Page widget I’ve installed here - slick, eh? Click through to join me on Facebook). By all means, start collecting email subscribers so you can communicate with them directly (my subscription box pops up on your first visit here, and is in the upper right too - subscribe to get an email when there are new blog posts). Encourage RSS subscriptions (click here to subscribe to this blog).
When something borks, you can reach your fans, friends and subscribers through another channel.
Social media sucks when it’s all you’ve got. 400,000 Twitter followers doesn’t mean jack if you can’t reach them when Twitter is down.
(I’m picking on Twitter here, but this applies for any social networking platform. Facebook fan pages with 5k fans suck when Facebook is down. And so on).
The goal with social media isn’t just to amass large numbers of subscribers. (If they’re untargeted subscribers, perhaps people who are just following you so that you follow them back, they’re pretty much worthless anyway).
No, what you need to do with social media is attract people interested in you, in your niche and then funnel them into other channels, other places, where you can reach them.
Again, you want blog readers, email subscribers from your social media friends. Get them out of the social network and into your funnel!
(This will happen naturally when you offer superior content and are a news maker (or even “reporter”) in your market).
Keep in mind too that people prefer different methods of communication. Person A might love email and abhor Facebook, have a Twitter account but never use it and be a casual RSS reader. Person B could never check their email, RSS feeds or Twitter but be a rabid Facebook user.
You job is to be in contact with both Person A and Person B. Your job is to connect with your potential customers, clients, reader, subscribers in whatever medium or platform they choose. You need to be where they are. You need to be right there in front of them whenever they open up their favorite app or web address to see what’s happening.
Finally, there’s the issue with where you’re hosting your content - that “Buy Now” button or affiliate link.
For the sake of God’s green earth, GET YOUR OWN DOMAIN!
Relying on Squidoo, Hubpages, Facebook, WetPaint, whoever to host your “money page” is internet markeitng SUICIDE.
Sites change their terms of service (Squidoo just did recently). Your page can get banned. The service might go down. The service might run out of money and die. Some asshat competitor might report you (even when you didn’t do anything wrong) and get your account deleted. The service might decide to change their design or layout and it might kill your conversions.
When (not if, WHEN) any of these happen, those pages you worked so hard on, that you are earning from, are GONE. And you’re not earning anything.
(Yes, one should still use external sites to build links to your main domain. Just don’t make your “money page” anywhere but on your own domain).
So, to recap, social media sucks if:
- If it’s your only method of communication with folks in your niche
- You’re not funneling social media friends to other channels
- It’s where you host your “money page”
Social media is awesome if:
- It’s one of many methods for you to reach your subscribers, customers and fans
- You’re using it to bring in new subscribers, customers and fans into your marketing funnel
- You’re using it to boost the link popularity of domains you own
(We talk more about this stuff inside Crowd Mountain - you can get in for $1 right now).
Reassess your social media strategy to ensure you’re using it as an adjunct to your marketing plan, and not a crutch.
Going Green 101
What if cities, businesses, homeowners stop landscaping, watering, and mowing their grass weekly. If pollution and water shortage are a reality, wouldn't this be the right thing to do?What do you think?
President Obama: �No Amnesty for Illegal Aliens!�
Total signers: 140,796 Petition Sponsor: Grassfire.org
About the Petition:
The push for amnesty is officially beginning on June 8, when President Obama hosts a
closed door meeting (hidden from the American people) of bi-partisan Congressional leaders at the White House to �start a dialogue� about comprehensive immigration reform.
MUST READ: CULTURE OF CORRUPTION
Michelle Malkin Exposes Obama's Culture of Corruption,
Tops New York Times Bestseller List at #1
Tops New York Times Bestseller List at #1
"You simply must read Culture of Corruption."
-Mark Levin
"I usually don't read political books....but I tell you, Michelle, America needs to see this and I will read your book."
-Glenn Beck
Culture of Corruption, the devastating political exposé by Michelle Malkin, will debut at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list next Sunday. And everyone from Sean Hannity to Glenn Beck to Mark Levin agrees this is the first and only book to truly reveal Obama's administration for what it is: a government of the crony, by the lobbyist, and for the well-heeled. Contrasting his rhetoric of "hope and change" with his actions, Culture of Corruptiondetails what Obama has delivered in his first six months in office—a presidency of nepotism, corporate lobbying, government favors, entrenched incumbency, and hypocrisy. Citing example after example of Team Obama's corrupt dealings and abuses of power, Malkin reveals the truth about Obama's vaunted "Team of Rivals." From pay-to-play tainted Michelle Obama and Joe Biden, to power broker Rahm Emanuel, to ethically challenged Tim Geithner, Obama's cabinet is all about increased government power and very little about helping Americans get ahead. Obama lacks the will to change Washington politics and has hand-picked a team that will do his dirty work for him. Culture of Corruption reveals what his agenda will mean for his presidency—and America.
Grandmas and Unborn Babies Face Extermination by Obama's "Health" Care Pla
Investors Business Daily has just exposed the Achilles' heel of Obamacare, that hostile, socialist government takeover of your hospital, doctors, children, and grandparents. In an editorial entitled, "How House Bill Runs Over Grandma," the editors report how President Obama was personally confronted by a North Carolina woman asking if "everyone that's Medicare age will be visited and told they have to decide how they wish to die."
In response Obama joked that he hadn't yet hired enough bureaucrats to conduct such an operation, yet he could not deny the New York Post's discovery the House bill "compels seniors to submit to a counseling session every five years (and more often if they become sick or go into a nursing home) about alternatives for end-of-life care" (pages 425-430). In other words, your grandmother will be told, when insufficient resources are rationed to young people, that her duty to die begins with mandatory "end-of-life counseling," or as Obama explained, "encourage the use of living wills" that terminate otherwise salvageable lives prematurely through signed "do not resuscitate" (DNR) legal releases.
1) EUTHANASIA is the first result of Obama's socialist government "health" care plan.
Bankrupt state can't afford to pay for grandma's hip replacement? Obama's plan sends her a lawyer to make her sign a DNR, explaining her hastened duty to die, and obtaining her signature legally absolving him of all guilt. Euthanasia begins where capitalism ends.
Widely respected Minister Rick Joyner wrote this week, after reviewing Mat Staver's analysis of H.R. 3200 "Health" care bill, voicing his strong opinion that this bill "is about euthanasia, the power to determine who lives or dies in America. Hitler and Stalin would have loved to have had a means such as this for dispatching the millions they killed-it would have made their job much easier, and probably given them the ability to kill many more than they did. THIS BILL IS THAT SINISTER. This is not a joke."
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