Kids Still Say the Darndest Things
April 29, 2009
Art Linkletter and his very entertaining television show are long gone, but kids saying the darndest things will always be around. Did you see this one that supposedly written by a preschool teacher? Now, I say supposedly written because I didn’t know preschoolers could write. That’s probably part of what’s wrong with our education system: they got preschoolers teaching.
Anyhow, this one little boy pointed at a picture book and hollered, “A Fricken Elephant!”
The teacher (and I don’t know if this was a real teacher or one of them preschool teachers) replied a mightly quickly, “Danny Quayle Junior the Third! What did you say?”
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“It’s A Fricken elephant!”, he repeated. “It says so in the book.”
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Thanks goodness for Hooked on Phonics!
Campaign Finance Reform Plus
April 28, 2009
The Uncle Brice Plan for Campaign Finance Reform and Deficit Reduction.
Whereas campaign contributions are out of control and cause much consternation and concern among the citizenry, and
Whereas Americans are rightly justified in being concerned about runaway deficit spending while, at the same time, being in need of universal health care, etc.
Be it resolved that all future campaign expenditures by any legal or illegal entity operating on behalf of any candidate, political party or special interest issue that can be influenced by any elected official in any capacity shall be expended thusly:
Each dollar spent for political purposes shall be matched by the spender by a three dollar contribution to the United States Treasury and applied to the outstanding deficit.
The way I see it, if we made them folks spending money to influence how America operates and who gets elected spent three times as much to pay down the deficit, it would only take a few elections for the United States government to have a balanced budget.
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Check out these other sources of information.
Hands Off Campaign Finance Reform | Public Campaign – Public Campaign is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to sweeping reform that aims to dramatically reduce the role of big special interest money in American politics.
Illinois Reform Commission: Term Limits For Powerful Politicians … – Illinois Reform Commission: http://reformillinoisnow.org/. -ASSOCIATED PRESS. The outline of the Commission’s final proposals for reforming Illinois government: I. Campaign Finance. To bring greater transparency to the campaign finance …
Making Money from Home
April 23, 2009
Let’s talk about making money from home, and you don’t even need a printing press to do it. Now, back in the early days of Arkansas up to and including day before yesterday, there was a might profitable enterprise called moonshining. And while the Revenuers have a full load on their hands right now, I would recommend you never underestimate their ability to stop everything they’re doin in the nation’s interest just so they can nab your butt for trying to make a buck and a half so you can buy wome Garrett Sweet Snuff, thus stimulating the economy.
Since your readin this and all I gotta pretty good idea you have a computer or, at least, know someone who has one and will let you borrow it if you promise not to look at those special pictures of their significant other. That means you’re pretty much set to become an online marketing entrepreneur.
A real-life, honest-to-goodness entrepreneur is any person who finances a business venture and runs it. According to some economic-type folks, an entrepreneur is someone who develops a new product, a new way making a product, or new way to market a product. Here’s a problem with all them fanciful words. Old Solomon, thought by many to be the smartest human being in the Old Testament part of the Bible, said (and I paraphrase), "There ain’t nothing new."
So let me give you another word: entrepre-doer. An entrepre-doer is someone who decided they want to make money from home…and, then, does it! Know this: making money from home as an Internet marketer is not new. But you can put your own special wrinkle to it. After all, when was the last time you took advice from an invisible person who is a figment of your own imagination. See, you can make me as pretty or as smart as you desire. Since we’re talking about making money, I’d recommend you opt for smart right now.
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I’m sure you remember the story about old Tommy Edison back when he was a-building the electrical light bulb. One day he met up with one of them investigative reporters like that chick that got CNN in trouble at the TEA party she attended. Anyway, the reporter asked old Tommy about his 10,000 failures to produce something that would glow when electricity was applied to it, you know, other than his assistants. Tommy said something like, "I ain’t failed. I just found 10,000 ways of doing it that didn’t work."
The easiest way to begin making money from home – legally – is called affiliate marketing. That’s where folks like WalMart and Target and ninety-eleven thousand other businesses pay you something for helping them sell their products. You don’t even have to have your own product, but we’ll be talking about how you can do that as time goes by. You see, you don’t have to discover 10,000 ways that don’t work. There are plenty of folks to show you the right way.
I don’t care if you’re just getting started or you been doing this a long time, but one guy I’d recommend as a teacher is Jack Humphrey. Jack has one of the best training programs of anybody I’ve seen – and it don’t cost you nothing. Jack is the entrepre-doer over at Blog Success, and you ought to click those words to find out how he can benefit you.
How to Generate Free Website Traffic
April 21, 2009
How to Generate Free Traffic
How to Generate Free Traffic examines things you can do to improve your site’s visibility and how you can generate lots of incoming links. For example, let’s take a look at the Table of Contents:
- Organic Search Engine Traffic
- How to Create an XML Sitemap
- Your .htaccess File for Apache Servers
- Getting Your Site Listed in Web Directories
- Preparation for Web Directory Submission
- Where to Submit Your Site
- Deep Link Directories
- Why You Should Create Your Own Software…and How to Do It
- Create a Keyword Research Tool
- How to Create a PAD File for Your Software
–How to Enter Your Company Info
–How to Enter Your Program Info
–How to Enter Your Web Info - Where to Submit Your PAD File for Free Links
- Article Marketing
–Your Article Topic
–Your Article Content - Mining the Public Domain Diamond Mine
- How to Write for Other Websites
- How to Use Squidoo to Build Free Links to Your Site
- How to Use Internet Forums to Generate Free Traffic
- How to Use Email for Free Traffic
- Free Traffic from Simple SEO Tactics
- How to Blog for Free Traffic
- How to Use Social Media Sites for Free Traffic
- Almost Free Traffic
- The Bottom Line
You must admit that’s a pretty impressive Table of Contents. Where to Submit Your Site and Deep Link Directories contain lists of sites with links to over 100 Web Directories. The value of Deep Link Directories is that they allow you to submit pages deep within your site and not just the home page.
Here’s the good part. The book, available through Clickbank, is only $18.00. It’s not $49 or $79 or $99 like most folks sell their stuff for. You could not do your own research for less than $18.00 to find all the stuff in this book. Just the list of deep link directories alone is worth more than that. Click here to learn more about How to Generate Free Web Traffic.
Change We Can What???
April 19, 2009
Change is the buzzword for 2009.
I’m reminded of the story of a young feller down in Pine Bluff who had recently hitched himself up all legal and all to one of the cutest fillies in southest Arkansas. For two whole months, he was the honey-do energizer bunny running all around his place a-mowing the yard, fixin his new wife’s car, and just general what-nots that marriage brings to a feller who’s been enjoying the single life for so long. He was beginning to feel the “bind” in the tie that binds. Not to mention he was seriously a-missin his ol drinkin buddies.
So he says to his new bride, “Honey, I’m gonna run down to Billy’s to get a beer.”
“You want a beer, sweetheart?” she answered as she opened up a new styrofoam ice chest sitting next to the store-bought refrigerator. There was six different kinds of beer. He could see his favorite American beer and some from Germany and Holland, too.
“Uh,” he said. (That’s what guys do when you ladies get the best of us like this. We take a moment to pontificate on the situation, and ‘uh’ is usually a good start.) “Uh, but honeypie, I sort of wanted one in a cold mug like Billy uses.” He smiled right smartly as he came up with a solution to his dilemna.
“Oh, you want a cold mug, honey bunchkins?” she said as she drew open the freezer door and showed him a whole dozen frozen mugs that was so cold Sarah Palin woulda thought she’d just stepped outside to gander over at Russia.
“Ummm, uh,” he said as the smile quickly fell plumb offn his face. “Uh, but munchkins, Billy has those pickled pigs feet and nachos and boiled eggs and stuff that really makes beer go down smooth.” He cracked the beginnin of a smile but was afraid to go overboard like he’d done before.
Sure enough, his wife opened the over door and puled a dishtowel off stuff she had covered up on that formica counter and there was nachos and pickled pigs feet and boiled eggs and chicken wangs and tamales and bratwurst. “You want something to make the beer go down smoother, sweetiepie?”
“Ummm, huh, uh,” he whispered a might softly. “What a wonderful wife you are, bunchkins. But I kinda miss the coarse talkin of the guys down at Billys.”
His new bride turned to face him headon with her hands on her hips, “Listen dirtbag. You sit your butt down in that chair, shut your dadgum mouth, drink this beer in this cold mug, eat this food…and forget all about ever goin to Billys again!”
And they lived happily ever after. Well now, America is a-needin some changes to take place and some of those changes will mean we do things a little different than before. After all, that’s what change is. We need to think about the way we use energy and the way we use healthcare and the way we treat the environment. And them big ol’ companies need to start thinkin about how they been treatin their employees by bringin in cheaper labor from overseas or sending jobs overseas.
Wall Street has turned companies into analysts-driven businesses rather than customer-driven businesses. They forget that there ain’t no business without loyal customers and good employees who turn customers into loyal customers.
You and I need to stop bein one-issue citizens and take a look at the whole picture. Think about that before you pour petroleum-based paint on somebody’s fur coat or coonskin hat. And, why are some of you folks so all-fired up about denyin rights to other folks that you want for yourselves?
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