Folks, I’m typically not a political activist or one to comment on politics. But this reprint caused me to sit up and take heed in light of the horrific situation the USA is facing right now. This is definately worth the 3 minutes it will take you to read….

By Charlie Reese  Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel newspaper. )

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and  then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation  and  high taxes, WHY we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The President does.
You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on  appropriations.  The House of Representatives does.
You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don’t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme  Court  justices 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly,  legally,morally,  and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this  country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem  was  created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional  duty to  provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central  bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound  reason.They have  no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a  congressman,or a  president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don’t care if they offer  a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to  accept or  reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the  legislator’sresponsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that  what they  did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con, regardless of  party.  What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive  amount of  gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood  up and  criticized the President for creating deficits. The President can only  propose a  budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives  sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and  approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? She  is the  leader ofthe majority party. She and fellow House members, not the  President,  can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can  pass it  over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace  545  people who stand convicted — by present facts — of incompetence and  irresponsibility. I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is  not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the  plain  truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then  it must  follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red.
If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ,it’s because they want them in IRAQ.

There are no insoluble government problems.  Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they  hire and  whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they  can  reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from  whom they  can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief  that  there exist disembodied mystical forces like “the economy,”  “inflation,” or “politics” that prevent them from doing what  they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.  They, and they alone, have the power.They, and they alone, should beheld  accountable by the people who are their bosses, provided the voters have  the  gumption to manage their own employees.  We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Bob Kimball

In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else''s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that''s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers.

These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.

It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called “traction”, which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.Top 10 Tips

10. Write at least five major “pillar” articles. A pillar article is usually a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good “how-to” lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn”t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.

9. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.

You don”t have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.

8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need an easily rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that”s the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you”ve done a good job!).

7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people”s blogs. You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.

Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog.

6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger”s article you can do a trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry – it”s sort of like your blog telling someone else”s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.

This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important – it gets the attention of another blogger. The other blogger will come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.

5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.

4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival enjoy a spike in new readers.

To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at http://blogcarnival.com/.

3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it”s so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it”s worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it. You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!

2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com. This is another tip that doesn”t bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it”s worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have – your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter.

How you benefit is through what is called your “Resource Box”. You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.

1. Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I”ve listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers but they won”t stay or bother to come back. Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.

This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time. Go to Blog Mastermind to get the scoop.

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Good Morning from St Louis!

I just finished reading a new report by Walter M. Prorok Jr. and Chris Vendilli. Inside this report Walt & Chris talk about the in’s & out’s of configuring your Twitter account along with some free third party services to maximize your traffic & exposure.

I was skeptical at first, but after reading through the whole report and watching a couple of the videos available at their website I must say, I’m beyond impressed.

These two guys have been silently attracting visitor after visitor to their sites using Twitter, and they’ve created a step by step guide so that anyone can replicate their ideas & systems.

Yes, that’s right, it’s another “system.” Most of us, as marketers, have pretty much come to recognize the word “system” as overused and often incorrectly placed. But, with “The Twitter Report” and the videos that follow, this stuff really is formatted into what you could correctly label a “system” at it’s finest.

Walt & Chris have uncovered every known tip & trick for setting up your Twitter account to give you maximum return per tweet, while keeping everything on auto-pilot as much as possible. They leave nothing to question and go pretty in depth.

Most of the stuff they cover includes many things you could likely figure out on your own, however, this report can save you the time & aggravation of having to go through trial and error while you make the same mistakes they’ve already made for you, & neatly documented along the way.

Why waste time, energy, and money trying to figure it all out on your own when you could just see how it all worked out for them and simply follow their suggestions, which are already proven to work successfully?

After reading the report and watching some of the videos I give TwitterHints.com two enthusiastic thumbs up, and I recommend it to anyone who wants to stay on the cutting edge of this new wave of communications & hyper-connectedness.

You’ll learn how to configure your settings, which 3rd party sites to join & how to set them up to run campaigns automatically, and much more.

I’m sure you’ll enjoy “The Twitter Report” as much as I did and you can go check it out here:

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Bob Kimball

Ever feel as if nobody is reading your blog? You do all the SEO you read, still the visitor numbers are missing. What do you do? If this kinda describes your current feelings then this article will provide you with ways to blast off your blog to grow your business.

Launch Stage #1
The first place to look at is the basic foundation of a successful blog
(back to the basics). Here are few things that you should keep in mind:

(1) Be sure your blog has a niche topic so you can make a concerted effort to
reach specific blog visitors. So, if you have a hobby such as collecting butterflys, then your main topic should be concentrated on reaching
web visitors who love butterfly collecting.

(2) Use categories/tags that are sub-topics of your main topic. Going with the
previous niche topic, then good sub-topics would be: authors, types,
illustrations, geography, etc.

(3) Good oontent is key to building traffic to your website. Make sure that your
content includes the keywords that you want associated to your niche blog.

Launch Stage #2
Once you have the basics in place, then you need to create a “community” within
your blog. Building a “community” means that you want to create a reason for
repeat visits by your blog visitors. This will help you in the long run to one
day setup a membership website. What does it take to build a “community”? Glad
you asked. Below is a short list of things you can do.

(1) Create a way for your web visitors to contribute to your blog. This can be
done by allowing them to comment on your blog posts or by allowing them to
submit content to be considered for posting to your blog.

(2) Ask your web visitors to submit a link for consideration to be added to your
“blogroll” in exchange for them putting a link back to your blog from theirs.

(3) Visit article websites such as Free Article Directory and find articles that
are in your niche. You would have to give credit to the author of the article
but it is a great way to add content to your website.

Launch Stage #3
Give your blog visitors a reason to come back by rewarding them for continuously
visiting your blog.

(1) Give-away freebies to your blog visitors.

(2) Create a way for them to tell-a-friend about your blog.

(3) Have a contest for guest authors in your niche topic to be guest authors on
your blog and ask them to share a link to the article on your blog from theirs.