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The Writer's
Chatroom website
copy for the landing page (which was reflected in the
write-up in Writer's Digest's "101 Best Websites for Writers"
print and electronic publication):
Celebrity Sundays:
Famous writers, up-and-coming
authors, and other notables closely tied to the writing and
publishing industry will be our featured guests each Sunday
at 7:00 PM EST. These chats will be moderated to allow
those in attendance to gain the most from each chat.
Guest chats are moderated using
a queue format. No password needed for scheduled chats!
You need not be a member of TWC
to attend chats, but you must subscribe to receive updates and
scheduled
guest information. (see top left of page)
Open Chat Wednesdays:
We’ll be flinging open the doors
each Wednesday from 8:00 to 11:00 PM EST for open
discussions between writers and aspiring writers. Sometimes
there will be a topic, others will be open for any and all
questions from the chatters.
(Caveat: The room will be open
for writers to talk to each other. If the room is abused, the
open time will be discontinued. We must do this to protect the
owner and moderators in today’s litigious society. Transcripts
of all open chats will be made available to law enforcement, if
necessary.)
Critical Correspondence:
Dear Senator ____________
(?-State),
Thank you for your efforts on behalf of fiscal--and
intelligent--government responsibility. Thank you, especially,
for standing up to our totalitarian-leaning president.
The health care bill now before Congress is an atrocity in the
making. It is a holocaust in the making. It is nothing short of
forced and legalized genocide of our unborn, our children with
health issues, our developmentally delayed--"retarded"--and our
senior citizens. It will give big government unlimited and
never-ending powers over our citizens' lives--and deaths.
Yes, I've read it. All of it. I have not "misunderstood", nor
have I been "misinformed" as to its meaning. My insurance
background made it highly understandable. This same
understanding makes me aware of the possibilities open to Mr.
Obama and his Marx/Lenin/Alinsky-trained cohorts if this bill
passes.
I believe in honest and open debate, not strong-arm tactics. I
believe in peaceful resolutions. I believe that hired thugs may
have been lined up to, potentially, provoke violence against
anyone who fails to agree with Mr. Obama et al, at town hall
meetings. Please note the corruption correlation between the DNC/police
action of 1960's infamy and what is happening now.
Mr. Obama and his brute-force brood do not want open debate.
They do not want honesty. They plan to ramrod this down our
throats as if we were/are merely serfs with no voice.
Such megalomaniacal elitism appalls me. It galls me. It makes my
blood run red, white, and blue.
I'm sure a majority of our non-entitlement-receiving legal
Americans will come to the same conclusion if Mr. Obama is
forced to be honest with them--which he has failed to do
repeatedly. Thankfully, he is now being "fact-checked" by some
in the media. He is failing miserably.
We need Welfare reform, not this deathcare plan. Welfare should
be a helping hand up, not a lifelong, multi-generational career
choice. We need job
creation, not internment camps for those who oppose big
government. We need responsible manufacturing and strictly
enforced--and fair--environmental guidelines, not Cap and Tax.
We need a return to common sense in government, not runaway
budgets with no spending limits--to be paid for by future
generations of an already bankrupt nation.
We must stem the tide
of gnawing attempts at censorship, a plan to strip us of our
freedom of speech. We must throw down any and all attempts to
disarm law-abiding citizens. We must rid ourselves of the
Austria/Switzerland/London-based legalized thievery that
is the Federal Reserve. We need strong voices in Congress to
protect our Constitution and Bill of Rights. We need for our
government to get out of the auto-making, consumer lending, and
banking businesses.
We need for the Obamas to live like they are Americans and not
merely Elitists who've ascended the throne. Which brings me to
this point: Why does Michelle Obama need 20+ staff at a
salary-only cost of over $1.25 MILLION per year? This flings cow
feces in the faces of the hard-working newly-unemployed with
families to feed, mortgages to pay, and losses of investments
and benefits now and in the future.
Mr. Obama is un-fit to lead America. If he wants a
Socialist/Communist dictatorship so badly, he needs to offer his
services elsewhere.
Mr. Obama’s skin color means nothing to me or to my family and
we're fed up with the race card being thrown in our faces every
time we disagree with him, his policies, or the actions of thugs
seemingly operating at his behest.
Please let Mr. Obama know that he's not in Chicago anymore.
However, ACORN ballot-stuffers aside, the majority of Americans
are awakening to his blasphemy and may soon be happy to send him
back to happily reside with Rezko and Blago for as long as he
would like. This is still a "free" country, after all.
I'm not a terrorist. I'm appalled that I may be listed and/or
treated as such if Mr. Obama's plans are not tempered. I'm a XX
year-old with a penchant for learning from history. I can no
longer march, but I can hold a sign while being pushed in my
wheelchair.
Quite frankly, Senator, I don't see much difference between what
Mr. Obama is attempting to do now and what Hitler did in 1930's
Germany; what Marx, Lenin and Stalin did in Russia; or what has
happened in North Korea, China, Cuba, Iraq, Iran... The list is
long, the lessons are many, and as Americans we have no excuse
for not calling it what it is.
If Mr. Obama is allowed to give amnesty to the millions of
illegal aliens now in this country to buy their votes, we may
never be able to vote him out--if we're still allowed to vote at
all.
I am crying out for the dignity of the hard-working
newly-unemployed American workers, for those foreclosed on and
displaced by Clinton's crisis-making mortgage debacle of the
1990's, for those who may not have a voice if this health-care
reform bill is passed.
If there is anything I might help you with in your efforts to
bring sanity back to our Capitol, please do not hesitate to call
on me. I have limited energy, but will give 100% of what I have
to help my country return to one I and my family might be proud
of again.
None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe
they are free.--Goethe
Respectfully,
____________
Publicity/Marketing/Promotion:
After award-winning author
Jordan Dane sold her
first 3-books in auction to Avon/HarperCollins in June 2006, her
debut title "NO ONE HEARD HER SCREAM" held more
significance. Everyone heard her scream! And this went double
when she sold another 3-book series in May 2007 without having
one book on the shelves yet.
Ripped from the
headlines, Jordan's gritty suspense plots weave a tapestry of
vivid settings, intrigue, and dark humor. Her first back-to-back
releases are planned for Apr, May and Jun 2008.
In spring 2008,
take a front row seat to suspense with Jordan Dane's NO ONE
HEARD HER SCREAM, NO ONE LEFT TO TELL, & NO ONE LIVES FOREVER.
Jordan was guest
of honor at 7 virtual book tour stops sponsored by The Writer's
Chatroom.
She and her husband now share
their Oklahoma residence with an intelligent canine and two cats of highborn
lineage.
____________
A
call to action
that's not so "sales-y":
Baby cuddlers are needed in orphanages, neonatal hospital
units, group homes, nurseries, and wherever else there are
babies and young children who may not have adequate human
contact early in life to begin developing social interaction
skills.
Sometimes infants are
removed from parental care at birth. This is especially true
when the mother is addicted to drugs. The baby cuddler
programs now in place at most children's hospitals grew out
of the "crack baby" epidemic of the early 1990's. Touch is
especially important for these tiniest of humans to develop
into loving and caring adolescents and adults. You can make
a life-long difference in their lives when you choose to
become a baby cuddler.
Read more at
http://www.charityguide.org/volunteer/fewhours/baby-cuddlers.htm
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