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http://www.ktla.com/landing_news/?Newsletter-of-Obama-with-Watermelon-Spar=1&blockID=81317&feedID=171

The October newsletter of the a Republican women’s group shows a picture of Obama depicted on a phony $10 “food stamp” surrounded by a watermelon, ribs and a bucket of fried chicken.

I am evaluating email marketing companies for my business newsletter. It seems Constant Contact is the most well-known but I’m trying to find one that’s more like $5/mo. for 1,000 contacts. I am using www.talkwaremedia.com ($4.50/mo for 1,5000 contacts) and it’s ok but I find the newsletter creation somewhat un-user-friendly and I find the contact database fairly confusing. Anyone have experience w/ a good and low cost company? Thanks!
I work for a direct sales company and I do have my own customer list… currently about 100 people but I add to it monthly.

REAL QUESTION. Not rhetoric.

Or is it a scare tactic used to make us think that we are in dire straights? The numbers came in, and they do not indicate that we are in a recession. What’s going on here? Is it to get us to spend more money, or a tactic used to make us think that things are so bad, that we react in a way that is predicable/desirable to Wall Street, Government, or any other entity?

“Only few weeks ago we were headed for our first-blown horrible recession in 16 years, according to predictions made by the economist elite at Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. This notion was also reinforced only a couple of days ago by Warren Buffett in a CNBC interview.

This is unfortunate. Media hysteria over the mortgage crisis and continued collapse in homebuilding has certainly misled countless people about prospects for the real economy. We still grew at 0.6%. This naturally leads one to ask the contrarian question: Since when have the media and the Buffetts of the world ever had our best interest at heart and given us an advance warning of an impending economic crisis that actually came to pass? Exactly.

Napoleon Bonaparte cynically once said “Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.” You would agree with me that Wall Street has become master of both elements. Fear sells. It sells newsletters, it sells bookings and most importantly shakes the weak hands.

Here are some numbers:
riday’s job report (May 2nd) was another indication that the US economy is not about to roll over, as widely predicted. The report came in stronger than the consensus expected with non-farm payrolls declining only 20K in April from an expected loss of 75K, while revisions to February and March subtracted 8K.

This is consistent with sluggish growth for the first half of fiscal ‘08, but not recession. If this were a true recession, the kind that feeds upon itself, job losses would be much more severe and corporate profits would not be nearly as good. As a result, the Unemployment Rate dropped to almost 4.9 percent from 5.1 percent, with Manufacturing Payrolls also reflecting an improvement as it rose to -46K from -48K.

Despite a loss of payroll jobs in the past three months, it is likely that real GDP grew at about 2% annual rate in the first quarter. GDP growth for the fourth quarter of 2007 was also up slightly, while the prior two quarters averaged over 4 percent growth. Worth pointing out is that while real GDP slowed to just 0.6% in the first quarter, the number is expected to be revised up, and an economic rebound to more than 3% growth – in the second half of fiscal ‘08 is highly probable.

Furthermore, consumer spending has been up steadily through the first quarter. Exports are booming with the Factory Orders index adding to the improved outlook and surging to 1.4% from a negative 0.9%. Business investment in equipment and software continue holding up very well. And at 154 million employed, the civilian labor force just hit a new all-time high.

Not bad I’d say for a US economy which constantly finds itself in the midst of a fear mongering campaign from the vast armies of journalists and economists who never fail to sensationalize economic problems. Yet, the economy manages to expand and show off signs of resilience.”

My source: http://wallstreetpit.com/us-economy-is-expanding-not-receding/
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If Ron Paul ran Libertarian, he would definately be talked about in the media. Should Ron Paul run as a Libertarian?

What are your thoughts on Ron Pauls mentioning a march on Washington in his recent video newsletter from his campaign? Would you be willing to attend since marching in numbers has proven to be so effective during the early years of our country and up through the 70s?
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I’m a 16-year- old junior from Texas. I’m homeschooled but have taken 4 classes at my local community college and will take 12 next year. I hope to take 5 ap tests this summer. I have not taken any subject tests yet but I plan to take some this Spring. I have a 2250 on the SAT (I just got my scores back). I have a 4.0 GPA from my co-op (where a lot of homeschoolers come together to learn from homeschool moms who are educated on the subject they teach) and a 4.0 from the community college, having taken arabic 1 & 2, algebra, and US history. I got a 214 on the PSAT so I might also be a national merit scholar. I’m in the homeschool national honor society (Eta Sigma Aplha) and I hope to become the Community Service Organizer. I’m trying to earn the congressional bronze medal. I am the co-president of my debate team and mentor newbie debaters. I also am a regional champion in debate. I participate in the Model UN, specifically the Harvard Model UN and the Texas Model UN, as the president of the homeschool UN club. I participate in boy scouts and hope to get eagle. I have been a scribe and a patrol leader, having won best booth in show at a scout show and wining the national honor patrol award and the troop honor patrol award. I play varsity tennis. I am the editor of my troop’s newsletter. I am in my church’s choir and am president of the boy’s choir. I am the founder and editor of my co-ops yearbook with around 200 kids. I am also the president of my co-ops model congress club. During the summer, I participate in debate camp, boy scout camp, my church’s vbs, and i travel alot, usually to egypt to immerse myself in arabic. I used to have a jobas my church’s av operator, but then I started doing it for free. Which brings me to my volunteer work. Besides all the stuff I do for scouts and the honor society, I am the reader for my church, as well as a sunday school helper. I;ve gone on 7 mission trips with my church to help deaf children in rio bravo mexico. I campaigned for John McCain for 3 hours, tuesdays and thursday, for 5 weeks, and I volunteer at a homeless shelter every month for 5 hours. I think that’s it. What do you think? oh, also, I’ll be interning for my congressman this summer.
Okay, sorry about the punctuation, grammar, spelling format, etc. I guess I thought it didn’t matter on Yahoo! answers. I stand corrected. If you really can’t bear the formatting, tell me and I can correct it.
Also, I’m not really falling for the “conservatives won’t like Harvard” bit. Bill O’ ‘Reilly went there. So did George Bush. Just saying…

man in Grand Rapids, Michigan took out a $7000 full page ad in the paper to present the following essay to the people of his community. It really touched my heart and I hope it will yours too.

How Could You?
By Jim Willis 2001

When I was a puppy, I entertained you with my antics and made you laugh. You called me your child, and despite a number of chewed shoes and a couple of murdered throw pillows, I became your best friend. Whenever I “was bad,” you’d shake your finger at me and ask “How could you?” — but then you’d relent, and roll me over for a belly rub.

My housebreaking took a little longer than expected, because you were terribly busy, but we worked on that together. I remember those nights of nuzzling you in bed and listening to your confidences and secret dreams, and I believed that life could not be any more perfect. We went for long walks and runs in the park, car rides, stops for ice cream (I only got the cone because “ice cream is bad for dogs,” you said), and I took long naps in the sun waiting for you to come home at the end of the day.

Gradually, you began spending more time at work and on your career, and more time searching for a human mate. I waited for you patiently, comforted you through heartbreaks and disappointments, never chided you about bad decisions, and romped with glee at your homecomings, and when you fell in love. She, now your wife, is not a “dog person” — still I welcomed her into our home, tried
to show her affection, and obeyed her. I was happy because you were happy.

Then the human babies came along and I shared your excitement. I was fascinated by their pinkness, how they smelled, and I wanted to mother them, too. Only she and you worried that I might hurt them, and I spent most of my time banished to another room, or to a dog crate. Oh, how I wanted to love them, but I became a “prisoner of love.”

As they began to grow, I became their friend. They clung to my fur and pulled themselves up on wobbly legs, poked fingers in my eyes, investigated my ears, and gave me kisses on my nose. I loved everything about them and their touch — because your touch was now so infrequent — and I would have defended them with my life if need be. I would sneak into their beds and listen to their
worries and secret dreams, and together we waited for the sound of your car in the driveway.

There had been a time, when others asked you if you had a dog, that you produced a photo of me from your wallet and told them stories about me. These past few years, you just answered “yes” and changed the subject. I had gone from being “your dog” to “just a dog,” and you resented every expenditure on my behalf.

Now, you have a new career opportunity in another city, and you and they will be moving to an apartment that does not allow pets. You’ve made the right decision for your “family,” but there was a time when I was your only family. I was excited about the car ride until we arrived at the animal shelter. It smelled of dogs and cats, of fear, of hopelessness.

You filled out the paperwork and said “I know you will find a good home for her.” They shrugged and gave you a pained look. They understand the realities facing a middle-aged dog, even one with “papers.”

You had to pry your son’s fingers loose from my collar as he screamed “No, Daddy! Please don’t let them take my dog!” And I worried for him, and what lessons you had just taught him about friendship and loyalty, about love and responsibility, and about respect for all life. You gave me a good-bye pat on the head, avoided my eyes, and politely refused to take my collar and leash
with you. You had a deadline to meet and now I have one, too.

After you left, the two nice ladies said you probably knew about your upcoming move months ago and made no attempt to find me another good home. They shook their heads and asked “How could you?”

They are as attentive to us here in the shelter as their busy schedules allow. They feed us, of course, but I lost my appetite days ago. At first, whenever anyone passed my pen, I rushed to the front, hoping it was you that you had changed your mind — that this was all a bad dream … or I hoped it would at least be someone who cared, anyone who might save me. When I realized I could not compete with the frolicking for attention of happy puppies, oblivious to their own fate, I retreated to a far corner and waited.

I heard her footsteps as she came for me at the end of the day, and I padded along the aisle after her to a separate room.
A blissfully quiet room.

She placed me on the table and rubbed my ears, and told me not to worry. My heart pounded in anticipation of what was to come, but there was also a sense of relief. The prisoner of love had run out of days. As is my nature, I was more concerned about her.

The burden which she bears weighs heavily on her, and I know that, the same way I knew your every mood. She gently placed a tourniquet around my foreleg as a tear ran down her cheek. I licked her hand in the same way I used to comfort you so many years ago. She expertly slid the hypodermic needle into my vein. As I felt the sting and the cool liquid coursing through my body, I lay
down sleepily, looked into her kind eyes and murmured “How could you?”

Perhaps because she understood my dog speak, she said “I’m so sorry.” She hugged me, and hurriedly explained it was her job to make sure I went to a better place, where I wouldn’t be ignored or abused or abandoned, or have to fend for myself — a place of love and light so very different from this earthly place. And with my last bit of energy, I tried to convey to her with a thump of my tail that my “How could you?” was not directed at her.
It was you, My Beloved Master, I was thinking of. I will think of you and wait for you forever.

May everyone in your life continue to show you so much loyalty.

The End….

A note from the author…

If “How Could You?” brought tears to your eyes as you read it, as it did to mine as I wrote it, it is because it is the composite story of the millions of formerly owned pets who die each year in American and Canadian animal shelters. Anyone is welcome to distribute the essay for a noncommercial purpose, as long as it is properly attributed with the copyright notice. Please use it to help educate, on websites, in newsletters, on animal shelter and vet office bulletin boards. Tell the public that the decision to add a pet to the family is an important one for life, that animals deserve our love and sensible care, that finding another appropriate home for your animal is your responsibility and any local humane society or animal welfare league can offer you good advice, and that all life is precious.

Please do your part to stop the killing, and encourage all spay & neuter campaigns in order to prevent unwanted animals.
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I read an article on Obama campaign newsletter a.k.a newsweek that pastors are joing in a conference call EVERYDAY to pray for Obama, for his safety,clearness of mind(whatever that means),and that his plane lands safely(Huh?!)
Isnt this cult getting creeeeeepier by the minute. First the faintings, now this. I understand if u keep a candidate in ur prayers, but having a conference call prayer (each day led by a different pastor)Everyday?!
Has any other candidate in US history attracted such mass hysteria?

I have a email newsletter, and for my next newsletter, I want to do a president campaign type thing. Does anybody have any facts about the presidential candidates the difference between Democrats and republicans, or a good website where I can find this info? And PLEASE ~ NO OPINIONS!!!!