Yeah I'm still here! I'm still watching the country slowly be toirn apart by our benevolent elitist leaders, Obama, Reid, Polosi and Biden. we can't let our guard down now. Your freedom and and your children's fuitures arew at stake!
I guess it's just me, but didn't the progressives and democrats just over a month ago suffer the largest single sided defeat in American Political history? The American people clearly told congress and the president that they didn't want what they were selling and yet here in the lame duck session the lame duck Democrats, Ried and Pelosi (I know they got reelected by some extremely uninformed people) are doing all they can to pass either through legislation or by non-voting regulations ordered by progressive bureacrats at the FDA, FCC, EPA DOJ, to force us to accept their agenda. Obama, Biden, Reid and Pelosi are clearly not working for America. They continue to push for they elitist agenda which is clearly designed to destory America as a world power and the one true beacon of light and fredom in the world. Contact your senators and congress people and tell them to stop this #%$#%^. Apparently we have to do more than slap them down to get them to listen. I'm afraid for our country that it will take a shooting war to get rid of these fruit cakes! Chris Keys
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
THE HARD TRUTH by CHRIS KEYS
THE HARD TRUTH by CHRIS KEYS
Despite being a big proponent of networking, I'm finding it isn't a very good or effective tool for selling books. Most of the people on the sites are there to either learn more about writing, to simply socialize or to sell a book themselves. I know it's not what us self-published authors want to hear buy, it's true. Unfortunately to sell books, you have to get noticed by the public. The majority of the public isn't on the social networking sites looking for books. They are reading newspapers, magazines about books, looking over the selection in book stores or glancing at ads they see on their favorite websites, or facebook. The old adage is true. It takes money to make money. So, since most of us aren't flush with disposable income, I would suggest that you do your homework and choose wisely, as they say the best fit for your book. Good luck, because even if you are an extremely good writer unless the public knows about you, no one will be buying your book. Chris
Despite being a big proponent of networking, I'm finding it isn't a very good or effective tool for selling books. Most of the people on the sites are there to either learn more about writing, to simply socialize or to sell a book themselves. I know it's not what us self-published authors want to hear buy, it's true. Unfortunately to sell books, you have to get noticed by the public. The majority of the public isn't on the social networking sites looking for books. They are reading newspapers, magazines about books, looking over the selection in book stores or glancing at ads they see on their favorite websites, or facebook. The old adage is true. It takes money to make money. So, since most of us aren't flush with disposable income, I would suggest that you do your homework and choose wisely, as they say the best fit for your book. Good luck, because even if you are an extremely good writer unless the public knows about you, no one will be buying your book. Chris
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Speech by Geert Wilders of the Dutch Parliament
For those of you who have been following my exposes about muslins and you may have thought I was just a little bit off, here is a leading European Statesman talking about the Muslim problems the world faces. Here in America we are facing the same problems as they are in Europe, except that ours is a two front war. We also have the hispanics who refuse to assimilate into our society and wave the Mexican flag indefinance of
our laws, traditions and morals.
I've been trying to keep my time at the computer at a minimum, but after reading this one, I felt it certainly should be circulated. As I read through it, the thought stayed with me to check it out with Snopes and TruthOrFiction, although I felt it was true. .Snopes is already listed at the bottom of this email. Seeing and hearing what is going on in other countries and now even in our USA, I see it spreading like thick molasses on a plate, slowly expanding across our country as well. I have Muslim friends. It is difficult for me to think they would think differently than how I know them now. This man, Geert Wilders, seems to have his pulse on the situation in Europe. Perhaps we should pay more attention to what is going on over there AND right here at home, too. This Will Give You Cold Chills! Your California friend.
Geert Wilders is a Dutch Member of Parliament.
Below is the speech of Geert Wilders..Chairman..Party for Freedom..the Netherlands
Speaking at the Four Seasons, New York
Introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem
Dear friends,
Thank you very much for inviting me.
I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe.
First I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe . Then, I will say a few things about Islam. To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem .
The Europe you know is changing. You have probably seen the landmarks. But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world. It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.
All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well. It's the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners. The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe . These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe , street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.
There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe . With larger congregations than there are in churches. And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region. Clearly, the signal is: We Rule.
Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam , Marseille and Malmo in Sweden . In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim. Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.
In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.
Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all pupils. In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims. Non-Muslim women routinely hear 'whore, whore'. Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in their (the muslim) country of origin.
In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin . The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.
In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves. Last week a Non-Muslim man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels, because he was drinking during the Ramadan.
Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of Anti-Semitism since World War II. French is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya, Israel . I could go on forever with stories like this. Stories about Islamization.
A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe . San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now. Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.
Now these are just numbers. And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-Immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate. But there are few signs of that. The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France . One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks. The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide Caliphate. Muslims demand what they call 'respect'. And this is how we give them respect. We have Muslim official state holidays.
The Christian-Democratic Attorney General is willing to accept sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority. We have cabinet members with passports from Morocco and Turkey .
Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behavior, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example, against ambulance workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots. Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus. I call the perpetrators 'settlers'. Because that is what they are. They do not come to integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam.. Therefore, they are settlers.
Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against Non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighborhoods, their cities, their countries. Moreover, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.
The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the prophet. His behavior is an example to all Muslims and cannot be criticized. Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped into one, there would be no problem. But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages - at the same time. Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed. Mohammed himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza. If it is good for Islam, it is good. If it is bad for Islam, it is bad.
Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion. Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72 virgins. But in its essence Islam is a political ideology. It is a system that lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every person. Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life. Islam means 'submission'. Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is sharia. If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.
Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam 'the most retrograde force in the world', and why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran. The public has wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the aggressor. I have lived in this country and visited it dozens of times. I support Israel. First, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand years of exile up to and including Auschwitz, second because it is a democracy, and third because Israel is our first line of defense.
This tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad, frustrating Islam's territorial advance. Israel is facing the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh in Indonesia. Israel is simply in the way. The same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War.
The war against Israel is not a war against Israel . It is a war against the West. It is jihad. Israel is simply receiving the blows that are meant for all of us.. If there would have been no Israel, Islamic Imperialism would have found other venues to release its energy and its desire for conquest. Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and lay awake at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.
Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning Israel in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities. But if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to the West. It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values. On the contrary, the end of Israel would give enormous encouragement to the forces of Islam. They would, and rightly so, see the demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed. The end of Israel would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the beginning. It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination. If they can get Israel, they can get everything. So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islamization as a 'right-wing extremists' or 'racists'. In my country, the Netherlands, 60 percent of the population now sees the mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since World War II. And another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest threat. Yet there is a greater danger than terrorist attacks, the scenario of America as the last man standing. The lights may go out in Europe faster than you can imagine. An Islamic Europe means a Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for America - as its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs. With an Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone to preserve the heritage of Rome , Athens and Jerusalem.
Dear friends, liberty is the most precious of gifts. My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with their lives. All throughout Europe , American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we cherish. My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely its custodians. We can only hand over this hard won liberty to Europe's children in the same state in which it was offered to us. We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams. Future generations would never forgive us. We cannot squander our liberties. We simply do not have the right to do so.
We have to take the necessary action now to stop this Islamic stupidity from destroying the free world that we know.
Please take the time to read and understand what is written here. Please send it to every free person that you know, it is so very important.
Chris keys
our laws, traditions and morals.
I've been trying to keep my time at the computer at a minimum, but after reading this one, I felt it certainly should be circulated. As I read through it, the thought stayed with me to check it out with Snopes and TruthOrFiction, although I felt it was true. .Snopes is already listed at the bottom of this email. Seeing and hearing what is going on in other countries and now even in our USA, I see it spreading like thick molasses on a plate, slowly expanding across our country as well. I have Muslim friends. It is difficult for me to think they would think differently than how I know them now. This man, Geert Wilders, seems to have his pulse on the situation in Europe. Perhaps we should pay more attention to what is going on over there AND right here at home, too. This Will Give You Cold Chills! Your California friend.
Geert Wilders is a Dutch Member of Parliament.
Below is the speech of Geert Wilders..Chairman..Party for Freedom..the Netherlands
Speaking at the Four Seasons, New York
Introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem
Dear friends,
Thank you very much for inviting me.
I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe.
First I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe . Then, I will say a few things about Islam. To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem .
The Europe you know is changing. You have probably seen the landmarks. But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world. It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.
All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well. It's the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners. The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe . These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe , street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.
There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe . With larger congregations than there are in churches. And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region. Clearly, the signal is: We Rule.
Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam , Marseille and Malmo in Sweden . In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim. Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.
In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.
Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all pupils. In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims. Non-Muslim women routinely hear 'whore, whore'. Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in their (the muslim) country of origin.
In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin . The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.
In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves. Last week a Non-Muslim man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels, because he was drinking during the Ramadan.
Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of Anti-Semitism since World War II. French is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya, Israel . I could go on forever with stories like this. Stories about Islamization.
A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe . San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now. Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.
Now these are just numbers. And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-Immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate. But there are few signs of that. The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France . One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks. The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide Caliphate. Muslims demand what they call 'respect'. And this is how we give them respect. We have Muslim official state holidays.
The Christian-Democratic Attorney General is willing to accept sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority. We have cabinet members with passports from Morocco and Turkey .
Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behavior, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example, against ambulance workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots. Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus. I call the perpetrators 'settlers'. Because that is what they are. They do not come to integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam.. Therefore, they are settlers.
Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against Non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighborhoods, their cities, their countries. Moreover, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.
The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the prophet. His behavior is an example to all Muslims and cannot be criticized. Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped into one, there would be no problem. But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages - at the same time. Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed. Mohammed himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza. If it is good for Islam, it is good. If it is bad for Islam, it is bad.
Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion. Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72 virgins. But in its essence Islam is a political ideology. It is a system that lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every person. Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life. Islam means 'submission'. Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is sharia. If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.
Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam 'the most retrograde force in the world', and why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran. The public has wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the aggressor. I have lived in this country and visited it dozens of times. I support Israel. First, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand years of exile up to and including Auschwitz, second because it is a democracy, and third because Israel is our first line of defense.
This tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad, frustrating Islam's territorial advance. Israel is facing the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh in Indonesia. Israel is simply in the way. The same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War.
The war against Israel is not a war against Israel . It is a war against the West. It is jihad. Israel is simply receiving the blows that are meant for all of us.. If there would have been no Israel, Islamic Imperialism would have found other venues to release its energy and its desire for conquest. Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and lay awake at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.
Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning Israel in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities. But if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to the West. It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values. On the contrary, the end of Israel would give enormous encouragement to the forces of Islam. They would, and rightly so, see the demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed. The end of Israel would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the beginning. It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination. If they can get Israel, they can get everything. So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islamization as a 'right-wing extremists' or 'racists'. In my country, the Netherlands, 60 percent of the population now sees the mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since World War II. And another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest threat. Yet there is a greater danger than terrorist attacks, the scenario of America as the last man standing. The lights may go out in Europe faster than you can imagine. An Islamic Europe means a Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for America - as its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs. With an Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone to preserve the heritage of Rome , Athens and Jerusalem.
Dear friends, liberty is the most precious of gifts. My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with their lives. All throughout Europe , American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we cherish. My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely its custodians. We can only hand over this hard won liberty to Europe's children in the same state in which it was offered to us. We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams. Future generations would never forgive us. We cannot squander our liberties. We simply do not have the right to do so.
We have to take the necessary action now to stop this Islamic stupidity from destroying the free world that we know.
Please take the time to read and understand what is written here. Please send it to every free person that you know, it is so very important.
Chris keys
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Journey to the Published Land! by Chris Keys
Hello there, it’s been a while since I’ve added a new blog to any site that I’m on and it’s about time I think I to do so. I’ve been quite busy trying to get my first book published and I’m proud to say that I have done it. I am a published author. Perhaps more importantly is the fact that I am an author who is making money from the sale of his book. I’m not wealthy yet, but the book is selling and I’ve yet to get my act together enough to promote it. That book would be, The Fishing trip—A Ghost Story! You can find it at Smashwords.com as an ebook, available for most readers or at CreateSpace.com, Amazon, Barnes and Nobel and several other on line sites and soon, with a little help from readers, your local book store. ISBN#1451588003.
As I mentioned a few months ago, I was embarking on a journey of discovery, the journey that leads to self publishing. It is not a journey for the faint of heart. Don’t get me wrong, you can do it provided you feel strongly, as I did, that you have a story people will want to read. Because it will take an effort, on your behalf to make it happen. So if have such a story, then by all means do it. However, let me explain some of the hurtles you will have to clear on the way.
All of the steps that you have to take when working with a big time publisher you will have to take when self-publishing, plus a few more. There isn’t anyone to make contact with the printer to decide what print size or font, your book will be printed in. There is no one interviewing artists from which to pick the right person to do the cover art. There is no, on staff editors, that will be assigned to work with you. No proof readers to make sure that the book is error free and reads right. Nor is there any guarantee that the one you find on your own, eventfully, has ever edited a book in your genre’ or has ever edited a book at all. The list goes on and on through marketing and distribution to public relations help and more. But let’s focus on the publishing portion.
In the publishing field there are no licensing requirements of any kind. Any one can claim to be a publisher, a printer, an editor, a graphic artist, a proof reader, or whatever. There are no set prices for any of the services offered by anyone. Basically, it comes down to buyer beware. A sad truth about the overall industry is that even if you should become an author the big publishers want. You still need to watch every move they make. The only thing they are interested in is, to make money for themselves. As the writer of the book they are selling, you are an expense to them and everyone wants to keep their expenses as low as possible. Keep that in mind if you ever get the opportunity to sign with a big publisher.
To begin your self-publishing journey you’ll need two things, a good manuscript and money. The actual publishing of your book can be done for free or very minimal cost. The expense comes in when you start preparing a professional product for the market. The first thing you’ll need to find or rather, the first person you’ll need to find is the editor. In my experience, I found this was a difficult undertaking. First, I answered ads in the writing magazines and was about freaked out by the prices the first dozen or so quoted me. They were in the $2000 to $2500 range. At the time I started, I was a proud creator of a 140,000 word monster of a novel. I’d already fallen for the rip off publisher who provided a great deal of praise, while promising to that the book would be published at no cost to me. But before we reached that point, we needed to have the book prepared professionally with critiquing, editing, framing?, another critic and a proof read. This by the way was to be done at my expense. The rip-off started when they asked for just a thousand dollars to help defray the costs of such undertaking and then they started to do the nickel and dime you death routine. It’s only another fifty dollars for this and another for that and another for another and another and another. I had wisely chosen to use a monthly payment plan and had only given them a few hundred when the con started in earnest. What enlight me to what was happening was that I had asked a specific question about my book and what they was as needing fixed and they took three months to respond and then they responded by telling about how had to write better dialog between the two main characters who were having a love affair behind the whole towns back. I haven’t any lovers in my book and when I questioned them in regards to this they stopped talking to me and referred me back to the publishers representative who wondered why I was concerned. As it turned out the publisher’s representative, had never read my book, neither had the supposed editor. Be very careful when dealing with any publisher. Check them out with Editors and Predators on line and with your states Attorney General’s office. The company I had signed with was be investigated for illegal business practices with over 1300 complaints.
In my search for an editor, I was turned down by several editors, simply because it was too big and time consuming. Many didn’t even want to read a few chapters to see just how much work they needed to, they just wanted me to commit to paying the money. Once they had received all the money, they would then begin. Again it was just about the money and had nothing to do with helping me present a better book.
I next encountered the type of editor, who after reading a few chapters, claimed the book was really good but it did some work. They were excited to work with me, but they needed all the money up front, no payments. They were somewhat less expensive so I considered them for a short time but finally passed on them after reading an article in a writing magazine that suggested if the editor was any good they’d take payments.
I next found what I thought was reasonably priced editor, but after they read a few chapters suggested that I get ghost writer, which by the way, they just happened to be. For a somewhat larger fee they’d fix my book so that it was a best seller. Of course they did say they couldn’t guarantee it would sell but all the required items for success would be there. You know the professional style and layout, the proper technical English language and the twists and turns that the big publishers what. I passed, because it is my book my way or it’s their book.
I then came across several ethical people who represented that they felt they were pretty good at editing and that they had published a few books of their own already with minor success. They offered to help me, for a very reasonable fee to get my book in shape. After exchanging several emails with several of them I finally picked one. We worked out a payment plan and went to work.
Here’s the thing. Even though we went to work and we felt we had set a reasonable time frame in which to get the work done, there will always be bumps in that road. Things like your full time job or their full time job might get in the way. A family illness may pop up any eat in to the money you had available to pay them with or someone in their family may become ill, requiring more of their time. You need to be flexible. They are people just like you.
Anyway, we worked on the story for sometime working through the bumps in the road and finally I was, at least I thought, ready. But there was one more step I needed to take before I published the book. It is actually two separate books now, instead one large one. Here’s where it can get very exciting but not in a good way You’ve got a good manuscript it’s been edited by someone, who you trusted and have spent the last few months working with and now, you have to have it proof read, by a third party.
I talked with dozens of other writers and they all assured me that I had to have an outside proof reading. Proof reading is designed to catch all of the typo’s, misspelling, and glaring grammar errors. It is not supposed to be a reedit. You’ll need to watch out for that.
No matter how good you are at writing and reading, you will miss some errors in your book for the simple reason that you have read it and read it and read it. You know exactly what is supposed to written and where. Your mind will skip right over typo’s like leaving out the words to, of, at, or and a. If you have a word that you’ve misspelled from the first day you started writing, one that spell check didn’t catch it. Chances are, you’ll never catch it either. Your mind once again has decided that it right and that’s that.
You need to be careful when hiring your proof reader. They need to have some skill with the English language and it would be good to have someone who has written a book or two, themselves. At the minimum they need to be college educated so that they understand grammar and punctuation. Those are my two worst areas.
It is very important at this stage, that you have a comfort level with your book. You have to believe in it and believe it is a very good story, worth every ones attention. Otherwise you may find yourself hiring someone to rework/reedit your book, because the proof reader made it sound as if the thing was junk. Everyone, for the most part, is operating with good intentions towards you, they want you to succeed but you need to remember they are also out to make money. You have to please yourself first and foremost. I’m going to tell you to listen carefully to what they have to say and then find another proof reader. That way you’ll have second opinion which is critical. Much of what any editor or test reader or proof reader is going to suggest you change is their opinion, especially, when it comes to wording. Punctuation and grammar, I’d just pretty much do as they say, but even here beware, they are not perfect. Of the five editors I did work with over the last three years on both The Fishing Trip-A Ghost Story and Reprisal! The Eagle Rises! They have all had trouble keeping the context of the story straight when making changes. Every word you write ties to another word you write, when you change the words, you change how they interact with each other. By changing one thing, you could be changing another from current tense to past tense or visa versa, all the way through, or maybe even taking the whole story line in a new direction. Watch your context like a hawk while editing. I have found that the wording in one chapter can change the way the words in another chapter read, which changes everything else. Don’t be afraid to tell your editor, “No, I won’t change that part.” It’s your book remember that!
Once you’ve been thru the ringer over the editing and proofing and deciding if the book is too long or too short, it’s on to picking who you will publish through. There are a few dozen help you self- publish publishers out there and several publish through us, On Demand Printers. The main difference is the help you self-publish publishers, will charge you an upfront fee to shepherd your book through the process and then once it is printed at your expense, they will provide some distribution, mostly to Amazon and then to the lists that the book stores can order from. Then when and if your book should sell, they get a fee from each book for the printing, handling and distribution efforts. They will tell you whether the book should be a hard cover or a paperback. They will tell you what size to make your book. 5x8, 6x9, 10x15 etc. They will tell you how much to charge for the book as well. Yeah, that sounds like a lot work and cost there and it is. But for some people it’s worth it. I may have gone that way if I could have afforded it. The help you self-publish publisher, will recommend an editor, a critiquer, a proof reader, a cover artist and marketing specialist, plus pretty much whatever else you may need all at alacarte rates.
Don’t get me wrong there are a couple of very reparable firms out there. They will shepherd your book through the process and even provide a very important service for the retail market. Book returns in case the books don’t sell. The big book stores will not order books they can not return if they do not sell. As my writing career grows, hopefully, I will more than likely utilize the services of one of the help you self-publish publishers to gain that all important return book policy.
The On Demand Printers are the least expensive way to publish your book. Few charge you anything up front for their services. Of course their services are quite limited. They basically print your book on a demand basis. Print on Demand means, they only print a copy when a copy is purchased. They charge a printing fee and a distribution fee. When all is said and done, this is the place you’ll make the most money per book as a writer just starting out.
The money comes at a cost to you, however. You will have to decide if your going to publish a hardcover or a paperback, (not all on demand printers do hardcovers), you’ll have to decide what price to charge. You’ll need to decide your books size, genre and the market place before you set a price. The On Demand Printer will tell you approximately what it will cost to print your book. Providing you with the inside knowledge of how much they will charge you per book. That includes the printing and distribution costs. I know of a doctor, who has purchased a few hundred copies of his new book and is selling them to patients at a big discount simply because he makes more money by doing so, about four dollars a book, more, than he’d make if he let them buy it from the publisher. By knowing the upfront cost you can know approximately what your royalties per book will be. So you’ll need to do some research when it comes to setting your price. Plus, not all On Demand Printers, charge the same fees so you’ll need to research that before choosing one. If you find one that doesn’t supply those numbers before you publish, run away fast. It’s a rip off!
Ok, you’ve figure out that you’d like to use a certain On Demand Publisher, great. Now your ready to figure out how they want to book formatted in order to mesh with their system for printing. Do they need PDF, PJG, word or something else? Also do you need to format the manuscript to the final book size? If so do you know how to do that? I figured it out, thru trial and error, so you can to or you can hire someone to do it for you. Some of the little pitfalls in the formatting process that I was blindsided by were that I had to format the manuscript to the book cover size. That I had to eliminate all of the space bar spaces, tabs settings, blank spaces and weird punctuation to end of sentences. Luckily, I discovered that most if not all the things, I needed to fix, were fixable through word, if you knew where to look. The part of about formatting to the book cover size, was a total surprise and I still can not find it in their style guide, yet they wouldn’t go to print with it being done. I strongly suggest that you follow their example for the books layout to the letter. Use a copy of their copyright page, with your info substituted, of course. They will be picky.
Now your on to your cover art. I liked the cover art development process. I gave the artist my impression of what I thought might make a good cover and she came back with a great cover based on my concept. What’s not to like? What’s not to like, is the hunting for a cover artist and having gone around in circles with several of them over price, choices, preliminary designs, final JPG files, ownership after the fact and how the money would be paid. No all artists have the same skill level or the same level of imagination. I was at my wits end when I finally found a great one, through a recommendation from a proof reader no less.
An important part of the book cover that is more often then not over looked is the spline. That is the part of the cover that holds the front to the back on the side of the book. But you knew that. The spline is important because it has to be sized to fit your book in between. It’s size is based on the number of pages you have. Let me make this is perfectly clear. You will have an even number of pages. No if ands or butts! Your pages will be counted two ways. First as pages and then as leafs. Leafs are the double sided pages that will make up your book. Some On Demand Printers may require you to have a couple of blank pages in the front and back. Some won’t. Read the printers requirements. Remember the more pages you have the more expensive your book will be.
Other things that you will have to include on or with your books cover. Your ISBN#- on the back with bar code, you can get this number from most On Demand Printers or you can go out and buy it on your own. You’ll need to include your name, the title of the book, maybe a small bit about you the author, maybe a picture and if you have them good reviews. One final comment about your books cover, make sure it is the responsibility of the artist to submit it back to you submission ready. It has to meet the printer’s specs and has to be properly formatted with the proper spline calculation. With out those things, you have pretty picture of no value as a book cover.
Next you’ll be contacting the copyright office in Washington DC. and copyrighting your book. It does cost a little bit but without it, you could face lots problems. Get the copyright. Then you’ll be going across town in DC to the Library of Congress. Here you will register your book with them and with that registry you will have an official book that libraries will stock, if they think its good enough. But with no registry, no library. The good news is that both of these can be easily on line. Do it!
The last really important step in publishing is also the hardest for any of us to over come. It’s also pretty simple. Bill Cosby said, “The quickest way to fail is to try and please everyone. Please yourself, for that is all, any of us can do.” It’s your book, write it the way you like it.
So now you are ready to go to print. You’re only a few short hours from being a published author. If you’ve submitted the manuscript in the proper format, within 48 hours you will be able to order your book. Now the real work begins. What? The real work? Haven’t you just spent three to six months working your ass off? What real work? MARKETING!
As a self publisher you have the responsibility of marketing your own work. If you picked a good On Demand Printer or a good help you self publish publisher you may have some minor help. Many provide the ability to list your work on all of the lists that are used by libraries and stores to purchase books, usually at an extra cost. They provide an E store for book sales and they certainly have you listed on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Books a Million and several large on line sales outlets. Your job is to get bookstores to purchase your book to sell to the public and/or to drive buyers to the E stores to buy it. I’ve written at some length about this part of the publishing adventure in the past and will repost those blogs so that you can see how this all runs in context now that I have finally got a book on the market.
Good luck, I hope this was helpful and informative. Just remember, this blog and five bucks will get you a Starbucks.
Your friend, Chris Keys
Write what you know, write it with passion—set the world on fire with your dreams! ChrisKeys@2010
As I mentioned a few months ago, I was embarking on a journey of discovery, the journey that leads to self publishing. It is not a journey for the faint of heart. Don’t get me wrong, you can do it provided you feel strongly, as I did, that you have a story people will want to read. Because it will take an effort, on your behalf to make it happen. So if have such a story, then by all means do it. However, let me explain some of the hurtles you will have to clear on the way.
All of the steps that you have to take when working with a big time publisher you will have to take when self-publishing, plus a few more. There isn’t anyone to make contact with the printer to decide what print size or font, your book will be printed in. There is no one interviewing artists from which to pick the right person to do the cover art. There is no, on staff editors, that will be assigned to work with you. No proof readers to make sure that the book is error free and reads right. Nor is there any guarantee that the one you find on your own, eventfully, has ever edited a book in your genre’ or has ever edited a book at all. The list goes on and on through marketing and distribution to public relations help and more. But let’s focus on the publishing portion.
In the publishing field there are no licensing requirements of any kind. Any one can claim to be a publisher, a printer, an editor, a graphic artist, a proof reader, or whatever. There are no set prices for any of the services offered by anyone. Basically, it comes down to buyer beware. A sad truth about the overall industry is that even if you should become an author the big publishers want. You still need to watch every move they make. The only thing they are interested in is, to make money for themselves. As the writer of the book they are selling, you are an expense to them and everyone wants to keep their expenses as low as possible. Keep that in mind if you ever get the opportunity to sign with a big publisher.
To begin your self-publishing journey you’ll need two things, a good manuscript and money. The actual publishing of your book can be done for free or very minimal cost. The expense comes in when you start preparing a professional product for the market. The first thing you’ll need to find or rather, the first person you’ll need to find is the editor. In my experience, I found this was a difficult undertaking. First, I answered ads in the writing magazines and was about freaked out by the prices the first dozen or so quoted me. They were in the $2000 to $2500 range. At the time I started, I was a proud creator of a 140,000 word monster of a novel. I’d already fallen for the rip off publisher who provided a great deal of praise, while promising to that the book would be published at no cost to me. But before we reached that point, we needed to have the book prepared professionally with critiquing, editing, framing?, another critic and a proof read. This by the way was to be done at my expense. The rip-off started when they asked for just a thousand dollars to help defray the costs of such undertaking and then they started to do the nickel and dime you death routine. It’s only another fifty dollars for this and another for that and another for another and another and another. I had wisely chosen to use a monthly payment plan and had only given them a few hundred when the con started in earnest. What enlight me to what was happening was that I had asked a specific question about my book and what they was as needing fixed and they took three months to respond and then they responded by telling about how had to write better dialog between the two main characters who were having a love affair behind the whole towns back. I haven’t any lovers in my book and when I questioned them in regards to this they stopped talking to me and referred me back to the publishers representative who wondered why I was concerned. As it turned out the publisher’s representative, had never read my book, neither had the supposed editor. Be very careful when dealing with any publisher. Check them out with Editors and Predators on line and with your states Attorney General’s office. The company I had signed with was be investigated for illegal business practices with over 1300 complaints.
In my search for an editor, I was turned down by several editors, simply because it was too big and time consuming. Many didn’t even want to read a few chapters to see just how much work they needed to, they just wanted me to commit to paying the money. Once they had received all the money, they would then begin. Again it was just about the money and had nothing to do with helping me present a better book.
I next encountered the type of editor, who after reading a few chapters, claimed the book was really good but it did some work. They were excited to work with me, but they needed all the money up front, no payments. They were somewhat less expensive so I considered them for a short time but finally passed on them after reading an article in a writing magazine that suggested if the editor was any good they’d take payments.
I next found what I thought was reasonably priced editor, but after they read a few chapters suggested that I get ghost writer, which by the way, they just happened to be. For a somewhat larger fee they’d fix my book so that it was a best seller. Of course they did say they couldn’t guarantee it would sell but all the required items for success would be there. You know the professional style and layout, the proper technical English language and the twists and turns that the big publishers what. I passed, because it is my book my way or it’s their book.
I then came across several ethical people who represented that they felt they were pretty good at editing and that they had published a few books of their own already with minor success. They offered to help me, for a very reasonable fee to get my book in shape. After exchanging several emails with several of them I finally picked one. We worked out a payment plan and went to work.
Here’s the thing. Even though we went to work and we felt we had set a reasonable time frame in which to get the work done, there will always be bumps in that road. Things like your full time job or their full time job might get in the way. A family illness may pop up any eat in to the money you had available to pay them with or someone in their family may become ill, requiring more of their time. You need to be flexible. They are people just like you.
Anyway, we worked on the story for sometime working through the bumps in the road and finally I was, at least I thought, ready. But there was one more step I needed to take before I published the book. It is actually two separate books now, instead one large one. Here’s where it can get very exciting but not in a good way You’ve got a good manuscript it’s been edited by someone, who you trusted and have spent the last few months working with and now, you have to have it proof read, by a third party.
I talked with dozens of other writers and they all assured me that I had to have an outside proof reading. Proof reading is designed to catch all of the typo’s, misspelling, and glaring grammar errors. It is not supposed to be a reedit. You’ll need to watch out for that.
No matter how good you are at writing and reading, you will miss some errors in your book for the simple reason that you have read it and read it and read it. You know exactly what is supposed to written and where. Your mind will skip right over typo’s like leaving out the words to, of, at, or and a. If you have a word that you’ve misspelled from the first day you started writing, one that spell check didn’t catch it. Chances are, you’ll never catch it either. Your mind once again has decided that it right and that’s that.
You need to be careful when hiring your proof reader. They need to have some skill with the English language and it would be good to have someone who has written a book or two, themselves. At the minimum they need to be college educated so that they understand grammar and punctuation. Those are my two worst areas.
It is very important at this stage, that you have a comfort level with your book. You have to believe in it and believe it is a very good story, worth every ones attention. Otherwise you may find yourself hiring someone to rework/reedit your book, because the proof reader made it sound as if the thing was junk. Everyone, for the most part, is operating with good intentions towards you, they want you to succeed but you need to remember they are also out to make money. You have to please yourself first and foremost. I’m going to tell you to listen carefully to what they have to say and then find another proof reader. That way you’ll have second opinion which is critical. Much of what any editor or test reader or proof reader is going to suggest you change is their opinion, especially, when it comes to wording. Punctuation and grammar, I’d just pretty much do as they say, but even here beware, they are not perfect. Of the five editors I did work with over the last three years on both The Fishing Trip-A Ghost Story and Reprisal! The Eagle Rises! They have all had trouble keeping the context of the story straight when making changes. Every word you write ties to another word you write, when you change the words, you change how they interact with each other. By changing one thing, you could be changing another from current tense to past tense or visa versa, all the way through, or maybe even taking the whole story line in a new direction. Watch your context like a hawk while editing. I have found that the wording in one chapter can change the way the words in another chapter read, which changes everything else. Don’t be afraid to tell your editor, “No, I won’t change that part.” It’s your book remember that!
Once you’ve been thru the ringer over the editing and proofing and deciding if the book is too long or too short, it’s on to picking who you will publish through. There are a few dozen help you self- publish publishers out there and several publish through us, On Demand Printers. The main difference is the help you self-publish publishers, will charge you an upfront fee to shepherd your book through the process and then once it is printed at your expense, they will provide some distribution, mostly to Amazon and then to the lists that the book stores can order from. Then when and if your book should sell, they get a fee from each book for the printing, handling and distribution efforts. They will tell you whether the book should be a hard cover or a paperback. They will tell you what size to make your book. 5x8, 6x9, 10x15 etc. They will tell you how much to charge for the book as well. Yeah, that sounds like a lot work and cost there and it is. But for some people it’s worth it. I may have gone that way if I could have afforded it. The help you self-publish publisher, will recommend an editor, a critiquer, a proof reader, a cover artist and marketing specialist, plus pretty much whatever else you may need all at alacarte rates.
Don’t get me wrong there are a couple of very reparable firms out there. They will shepherd your book through the process and even provide a very important service for the retail market. Book returns in case the books don’t sell. The big book stores will not order books they can not return if they do not sell. As my writing career grows, hopefully, I will more than likely utilize the services of one of the help you self-publish publishers to gain that all important return book policy.
The On Demand Printers are the least expensive way to publish your book. Few charge you anything up front for their services. Of course their services are quite limited. They basically print your book on a demand basis. Print on Demand means, they only print a copy when a copy is purchased. They charge a printing fee and a distribution fee. When all is said and done, this is the place you’ll make the most money per book as a writer just starting out.
The money comes at a cost to you, however. You will have to decide if your going to publish a hardcover or a paperback, (not all on demand printers do hardcovers), you’ll have to decide what price to charge. You’ll need to decide your books size, genre and the market place before you set a price. The On Demand Printer will tell you approximately what it will cost to print your book. Providing you with the inside knowledge of how much they will charge you per book. That includes the printing and distribution costs. I know of a doctor, who has purchased a few hundred copies of his new book and is selling them to patients at a big discount simply because he makes more money by doing so, about four dollars a book, more, than he’d make if he let them buy it from the publisher. By knowing the upfront cost you can know approximately what your royalties per book will be. So you’ll need to do some research when it comes to setting your price. Plus, not all On Demand Printers, charge the same fees so you’ll need to research that before choosing one. If you find one that doesn’t supply those numbers before you publish, run away fast. It’s a rip off!
Ok, you’ve figure out that you’d like to use a certain On Demand Publisher, great. Now your ready to figure out how they want to book formatted in order to mesh with their system for printing. Do they need PDF, PJG, word or something else? Also do you need to format the manuscript to the final book size? If so do you know how to do that? I figured it out, thru trial and error, so you can to or you can hire someone to do it for you. Some of the little pitfalls in the formatting process that I was blindsided by were that I had to format the manuscript to the book cover size. That I had to eliminate all of the space bar spaces, tabs settings, blank spaces and weird punctuation to end of sentences. Luckily, I discovered that most if not all the things, I needed to fix, were fixable through word, if you knew where to look. The part of about formatting to the book cover size, was a total surprise and I still can not find it in their style guide, yet they wouldn’t go to print with it being done. I strongly suggest that you follow their example for the books layout to the letter. Use a copy of their copyright page, with your info substituted, of course. They will be picky.
Now your on to your cover art. I liked the cover art development process. I gave the artist my impression of what I thought might make a good cover and she came back with a great cover based on my concept. What’s not to like? What’s not to like, is the hunting for a cover artist and having gone around in circles with several of them over price, choices, preliminary designs, final JPG files, ownership after the fact and how the money would be paid. No all artists have the same skill level or the same level of imagination. I was at my wits end when I finally found a great one, through a recommendation from a proof reader no less.
An important part of the book cover that is more often then not over looked is the spline. That is the part of the cover that holds the front to the back on the side of the book. But you knew that. The spline is important because it has to be sized to fit your book in between. It’s size is based on the number of pages you have. Let me make this is perfectly clear. You will have an even number of pages. No if ands or butts! Your pages will be counted two ways. First as pages and then as leafs. Leafs are the double sided pages that will make up your book. Some On Demand Printers may require you to have a couple of blank pages in the front and back. Some won’t. Read the printers requirements. Remember the more pages you have the more expensive your book will be.
Other things that you will have to include on or with your books cover. Your ISBN#- on the back with bar code, you can get this number from most On Demand Printers or you can go out and buy it on your own. You’ll need to include your name, the title of the book, maybe a small bit about you the author, maybe a picture and if you have them good reviews. One final comment about your books cover, make sure it is the responsibility of the artist to submit it back to you submission ready. It has to meet the printer’s specs and has to be properly formatted with the proper spline calculation. With out those things, you have pretty picture of no value as a book cover.
Next you’ll be contacting the copyright office in Washington DC. and copyrighting your book. It does cost a little bit but without it, you could face lots problems. Get the copyright. Then you’ll be going across town in DC to the Library of Congress. Here you will register your book with them and with that registry you will have an official book that libraries will stock, if they think its good enough. But with no registry, no library. The good news is that both of these can be easily on line. Do it!
The last really important step in publishing is also the hardest for any of us to over come. It’s also pretty simple. Bill Cosby said, “The quickest way to fail is to try and please everyone. Please yourself, for that is all, any of us can do.” It’s your book, write it the way you like it.
So now you are ready to go to print. You’re only a few short hours from being a published author. If you’ve submitted the manuscript in the proper format, within 48 hours you will be able to order your book. Now the real work begins. What? The real work? Haven’t you just spent three to six months working your ass off? What real work? MARKETING!
As a self publisher you have the responsibility of marketing your own work. If you picked a good On Demand Printer or a good help you self publish publisher you may have some minor help. Many provide the ability to list your work on all of the lists that are used by libraries and stores to purchase books, usually at an extra cost. They provide an E store for book sales and they certainly have you listed on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Books a Million and several large on line sales outlets. Your job is to get bookstores to purchase your book to sell to the public and/or to drive buyers to the E stores to buy it. I’ve written at some length about this part of the publishing adventure in the past and will repost those blogs so that you can see how this all runs in context now that I have finally got a book on the market.
Good luck, I hope this was helpful and informative. Just remember, this blog and five bucks will get you a Starbucks.
Your friend, Chris Keys
Write what you know, write it with passion—set the world on fire with your dreams! ChrisKeys@2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
The Fishing Trip--A Ghsot Story! by Chris Keys
Praise for The Fishing Trip—A Ghost Story!
“I had the pleasure of editing The Fish¬ing Trip—A Ghost Story. Even though my opinion might be slightly biased, I found Key’s colorful characters and gruesome ghouls to be likeable and entertaining; his storyline, enthralling and filled with sus¬pense. A truly chilling (fish) tale that will satisfy the ghost lover in all.”
Kaye Lynn Booth, Writing To Be Read
The Fishing Trip-A Ghsot Story! My first book is now available from Smashwords.com When you use the coupon code YU39W it's free! This is an ebook that you get right away! paperback is due to be released within a few days. You'll find it at CreateSpace.com
You will enjoy this book. You won't be able to put it down! Great ligt weight summer reading! Lots of fun and lots of thrills!
Chris Keys
“I had the pleasure of editing The Fish¬ing Trip—A Ghost Story. Even though my opinion might be slightly biased, I found Key’s colorful characters and gruesome ghouls to be likeable and entertaining; his storyline, enthralling and filled with sus¬pense. A truly chilling (fish) tale that will satisfy the ghost lover in all.”
Kaye Lynn Booth, Writing To Be Read
The Fishing Trip-A Ghsot Story! My first book is now available from Smashwords.com When you use the coupon code YU39W it's free! This is an ebook that you get right away! paperback is due to be released within a few days. You'll find it at CreateSpace.com
You will enjoy this book. You won't be able to put it down! Great ligt weight summer reading! Lots of fun and lots of thrills!
Chris Keys
Monday, July 5, 2010
A FAILURE OF A PRESIDENT! HIGH CRIMES AND MISTERMEANORS
I'm sorry but this isn't about migration. It is about our national defense, our sovernity. President Obama has time and time again demonstrated that he is uninterested in the the securing of our borders or in putting America first. He pays lip service to national crisis such as the oil spill in the Gulf, while at the same time he's pushing for legislation to put money in his friend’s pockets as well as his own.
But the scariest part of what this man has done to to our country, is that he has declared that the citizen's of Arizona, should simply walk away from a part of their state, our country, that is twenty miles by eighty miles or 1600 sq. miles of the United States of America, because the Mexican drug dealers are shooting at us should we venture into the area. What the $@#@% does he think he's doing? That is American soil which he has just basically abandoned to an invading foreign power! This is an impeachable offense and it should be pressed by the Republicans with the backing of every red blooded American. Take to the streets and demand Obama be impeached!
The Obama Presidency has been a total travesty since it was elected. The man has publically stated he is going to side with the Muslims in any confrontation instead of with America, as his oath of office calls for and demands. Read his book, you'll find it's true and that alone should disqualify him from being in any office because he has lied while taking the oath of office as it charges him to protect and defend America and he is saying he will not do it. Arizona is a prime example of his failure to live up to his oath of office.
Then add in the corruption that just keeps piling up. The Illinois Governor Boyavich selling Obama old senate seat and Obama having others call for himto pressure the governor to give to one of Obama's good friends-Ms. Jarrett who by the way is part of the failed bank Shore Bank which the government is bailing out despite gross mismanagement when every other mismanaged bank is forced to close. But if that happened Obama's buddies would all their investment in the bank.
Then we have George Soros and his staff members who are oil advisors to Obama and who the slow and deliberate foot dragging in the gulf benefits big time thru the transfer of production of oil to the waters of Brazil by a Brazilian Oil company, that is partly owned by George Soros. They are leasing all the well rigs that Obama is forcing to shut down in the gulf. To the EPA closing 1/3 of our oil refineries despite their properly permitted because the EPA changed the rules at Obama's insistence so he can froce thru CAP and TRADE which benefits no one but his friends and family once again. This is the most corrupt and least patriotic of Presidencies that ever was elected. He is destroying this country for his personal gain. Impeach Obama and do it now, for failing to protect and defend America. Impeach Obama!
BY Chris Keys
But the scariest part of what this man has done to to our country, is that he has declared that the citizen's of Arizona, should simply walk away from a part of their state, our country, that is twenty miles by eighty miles or 1600 sq. miles of the United States of America, because the Mexican drug dealers are shooting at us should we venture into the area. What the $@#@% does he think he's doing? That is American soil which he has just basically abandoned to an invading foreign power! This is an impeachable offense and it should be pressed by the Republicans with the backing of every red blooded American. Take to the streets and demand Obama be impeached!
The Obama Presidency has been a total travesty since it was elected. The man has publically stated he is going to side with the Muslims in any confrontation instead of with America, as his oath of office calls for and demands. Read his book, you'll find it's true and that alone should disqualify him from being in any office because he has lied while taking the oath of office as it charges him to protect and defend America and he is saying he will not do it. Arizona is a prime example of his failure to live up to his oath of office.
Then add in the corruption that just keeps piling up. The Illinois Governor Boyavich selling Obama old senate seat and Obama having others call for himto pressure the governor to give to one of Obama's good friends-Ms. Jarrett who by the way is part of the failed bank Shore Bank which the government is bailing out despite gross mismanagement when every other mismanaged bank is forced to close. But if that happened Obama's buddies would all their investment in the bank.
Then we have George Soros and his staff members who are oil advisors to Obama and who the slow and deliberate foot dragging in the gulf benefits big time thru the transfer of production of oil to the waters of Brazil by a Brazilian Oil company, that is partly owned by George Soros. They are leasing all the well rigs that Obama is forcing to shut down in the gulf. To the EPA closing 1/3 of our oil refineries despite their properly permitted because the EPA changed the rules at Obama's insistence so he can froce thru CAP and TRADE which benefits no one but his friends and family once again. This is the most corrupt and least patriotic of Presidencies that ever was elected. He is destroying this country for his personal gain. Impeach Obama and do it now, for failing to protect and defend America. Impeach Obama!
BY Chris Keys
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
The Progressives get suckered again! By Chris Keys
Welcome to the most moderate Muslim nation on earth. Turkey. It's an American ally. It spouts off about democracy whenever it is addressing a western nation or the UN. But when it’s just hanging out with the boys in the neighborhood, the other Muslims, they stand on table tops and scream, Islam, Islam, Islam!
The little Humanitarian flotilla was arranged and directed by them with the help of IHH an outlawed terrorist support network. Founded in 1992 in Turkey and promptly outlawed for its radical behavior and beliefs.
Approximately thirty percent of the people on the ships attempting to illegally break the Israel blockade were for the most part expatriate terrorist sympathizers and radical extremists hiding out in Europe.
The groups behind the financing of the flotilla IHH a turkey nonprofit known for it’s radical Islamic doctrine and for financing Hamas; The umbrella organization, headquartered in Saudi Arabia, known as,The Union for Good, which is also known for its financing of Hamas: and the, Islamic Relief Organization, also a known AL Qaeda Financier.
When the flotilla organizers, The Government of Turkey, was told that they could deliver the goods to Gaza after Israel inspected the cargo, they refused, setting up the boarding incident.
It is interesting when you consider that the flotilla was claiming to be taking Humanitarian aid to Gaza yet there is no one starving in Gaza. In fact, there is plenty of food there. The other major humanitarian relief product would be medical supplies. Yet again, there is no shortage of medical supplies in Gaza. Then add to those facts the Gaza governing factor is living like billionaires, it makes one wonder what humanitarian aid they could possibly be delivering?
When all is considered, the humanitarian aid workers, who knew in advance that Israelis would be stopping them and boarding them, came armed with sharpen steel poles, heavy steal clubs, hand guns and rifles, it hardly sounds like the humanitarian workers that normally escort shipments of food and medical supplies.
The whole flotilla was a prearranged stunt by the Turks to gain political clout with the other Islamic nations. Just at how quickly the Muslims world wide began protesting. Talk about a well organized campaign designed to make Israel look bad which by the way the world press gladly participated as coconspirators out without bothering to check any facts. Not unusual these days.
It is a very telling situation, one which America should be watching very closely and learning all they can from it. The Muslims are using propaganda masterfully and they re acting just like the neighborhood agitators er… rather, organizers do. They and the progressives are following a lot of the same tactics, designed to garner the presses sympathy and baffle a public who lives on sound bites.
Which brings me to the real point of the situation. The Muslims are doing this to Israel today, but they will be doing this game playing to the western powers tomorrow. There is already some happening as we speak. Like claiming they are moderates while refusing to condem the radicals that carry out the terror attacks. LIke building Mosque at Ground Zero and claoiming its a brotherhood center. The guy who is running the whole program is a radical Islamic Cleric who regularly calls for the destruction of Israel and the West, which is US! There is only one way to stop them. Force them out of our country, keep them out of our country, stop buying their oil by producing our own, finding alternative fuels and stop buying their propaganda and start acknowledging that fact that the terrorists are Islamic, we are at war and they need to be killed, so we cn live in peace. They will not stop until we destroy them or they destroy us. Those on the left who think they can be friends with them, are no smarter than the man and woman who thought they could be friends with the bears up in Alaska. The bears after a short period of time, ate them. The Muslims will do the same to their non Islamic "friends" because it is their religion to conquer non-Muslims. Either by converting them or by killing them. The state department clown who claims there are no terrorists and that Jihad is a peaceful pursuit of self enlightenment is an absolute fool aand a traitor. He needs to be arrested for treason because he is aiding the enemy, by misleading the American Public as to the real dangers of Islam and of allowing Muslims into our country.
Wake up America, time is slipping away very fast now and only you can change the course our country is on. It is a path, that leads to our destruction.
The little Humanitarian flotilla was arranged and directed by them with the help of IHH an outlawed terrorist support network. Founded in 1992 in Turkey and promptly outlawed for its radical behavior and beliefs.
Approximately thirty percent of the people on the ships attempting to illegally break the Israel blockade were for the most part expatriate terrorist sympathizers and radical extremists hiding out in Europe.
The groups behind the financing of the flotilla IHH a turkey nonprofit known for it’s radical Islamic doctrine and for financing Hamas; The umbrella organization, headquartered in Saudi Arabia, known as,The Union for Good, which is also known for its financing of Hamas: and the, Islamic Relief Organization, also a known AL Qaeda Financier.
When the flotilla organizers, The Government of Turkey, was told that they could deliver the goods to Gaza after Israel inspected the cargo, they refused, setting up the boarding incident.
It is interesting when you consider that the flotilla was claiming to be taking Humanitarian aid to Gaza yet there is no one starving in Gaza. In fact, there is plenty of food there. The other major humanitarian relief product would be medical supplies. Yet again, there is no shortage of medical supplies in Gaza. Then add to those facts the Gaza governing factor is living like billionaires, it makes one wonder what humanitarian aid they could possibly be delivering?
When all is considered, the humanitarian aid workers, who knew in advance that Israelis would be stopping them and boarding them, came armed with sharpen steel poles, heavy steal clubs, hand guns and rifles, it hardly sounds like the humanitarian workers that normally escort shipments of food and medical supplies.
The whole flotilla was a prearranged stunt by the Turks to gain political clout with the other Islamic nations. Just at how quickly the Muslims world wide began protesting. Talk about a well organized campaign designed to make Israel look bad which by the way the world press gladly participated as coconspirators out without bothering to check any facts. Not unusual these days.
It is a very telling situation, one which America should be watching very closely and learning all they can from it. The Muslims are using propaganda masterfully and they re acting just like the neighborhood agitators er… rather, organizers do. They and the progressives are following a lot of the same tactics, designed to garner the presses sympathy and baffle a public who lives on sound bites.
Which brings me to the real point of the situation. The Muslims are doing this to Israel today, but they will be doing this game playing to the western powers tomorrow. There is already some happening as we speak. Like claiming they are moderates while refusing to condem the radicals that carry out the terror attacks. LIke building Mosque at Ground Zero and claoiming its a brotherhood center. The guy who is running the whole program is a radical Islamic Cleric who regularly calls for the destruction of Israel and the West, which is US! There is only one way to stop them. Force them out of our country, keep them out of our country, stop buying their oil by producing our own, finding alternative fuels and stop buying their propaganda and start acknowledging that fact that the terrorists are Islamic, we are at war and they need to be killed, so we cn live in peace. They will not stop until we destroy them or they destroy us. Those on the left who think they can be friends with them, are no smarter than the man and woman who thought they could be friends with the bears up in Alaska. The bears after a short period of time, ate them. The Muslims will do the same to their non Islamic "friends" because it is their religion to conquer non-Muslims. Either by converting them or by killing them. The state department clown who claims there are no terrorists and that Jihad is a peaceful pursuit of self enlightenment is an absolute fool aand a traitor. He needs to be arrested for treason because he is aiding the enemy, by misleading the American Public as to the real dangers of Islam and of allowing Muslims into our country.
Wake up America, time is slipping away very fast now and only you can change the course our country is on. It is a path, that leads to our destruction.
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