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I need, would like, some more help. I appreciate the comments on the site and in person that I have received. Please continue and please help me as I attempt and wish to grow this site to something that is widely read, active, informative, interesting and the list continues.
I was thinking about attempting to work on a few different subject matters that revolve around the day of the week, so to say.
Such as: Monday Money Matters – where I would talk about various financial issues, personal matters, financial issues in general;
Wonderful Wednesday – Topics could range from random acts of kindness that are experienced or heard about from others;
Freaky Friday – Something strange that has occurred over the past week.
I would love to get some feedback about this. Is it of any interest whatsoever? (I just love that word – ‘whatsoever’ – 3 words, so to say, put together to make 1 word). Also, I am still looking for some other subject matters/themes to work with, if the weekday theme is of interest. I still need something that goes with Tuesday and Thursday. If there are some good ideas on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, let me know about those. I am open to mixing it up as much as there is interest.
I am working on the site design and layout also. I am getting some help with this, so let me know when you notice changes and if you like them or not.
Wide World Web Ranking
The site has fallen about 500,000, to about 9,800,000 in the ranking list of sites this past week. I know this is because I did not have any posts last week and only 2 posts the week before that. Where did the time go? In case you were wondering why I give that information, I would like to climb up in standings around 1 million a week or so, although that may be to much of a jump. I think a half million a week could be an easy thing, at least until I get into the 2 to 3 million range. Then it may go a little slower.
Once again, this is where I need your help, obviously. I need to know what you would like to read about. This is where your comments on the posts are helpful and by you sharing the posts with other people through the various social media formats. I know I am asking for feedback and a lot of help, but, as I have stated, I would like to make this site one that is not looked at as junk mail 
, but one that is enjoyed. I understand this battle, as I know I am asking for a lot out of your busy day. I do wish to make it ultimately worthwhile.
Thank you very much for your time and help. I look forward to all your comments, suggestions and guidance.
I just could not help but put this out there for a little more circulation. She says it like it is in my humble opinion.
Call it an occupational hazard, but I can’t look at the Occupy Wall Street protesters without thinking, “Who parented these people?”
As a culture columnist, I’ve commented on the social and political ramifications of the “movement” – now known as “OWS” – whose fairyland agenda can be summarized by one of their placards: “Everything for everybody.”
Thanks to their pipe-dream platform, it’s clear there are people with serious designs on “transformational” change in America who are using the protesters like bedsprings in a brothel.
Yet it’s not my role as a commentator that prompts my parenting question, but rather the fact that I’m the mother of four teens and young adults. There are some crucial life lessons that the protesters’ moms clearly have not passed along.
Here, then, are five things the OWS protesters’ mothers should have taught their children but obviously didn’t, so I will:
* Life isn’t fair. The concept of justice – that everyone should be treated fairly – is a worthy and worthwhile moral imperative on which our nation was founded. But justice and economic equality are not the same. Or, as Mick Jagger said, “You can’t always get what you want.”
No matter how you try to “level the playing field,” some people have better luck, skills, talents or connections that land them in better places. Some seem to have all the advantages in life but squander them, others play the modest hand they’re dealt and make up the difference in hard work and perseverance, and some find jobs on Wall Street and eventually buy houses in the Hamptons. Is it fair? Stupid question.
* Nothing is “free.” Protesting with signs that seek “free” college degrees and “free” health care make you look like idiots, because colleges and hospitals don’t operate on rainbows and sunshine. There is no magic money machine to tap for your meandering educational careers and “slow paths” to adulthood, and the 53 percent of taxpaying Americans owe you neither a degree nor an annual physical.
While I’m pointing out this obvious fact, here are a few other things that are not free: overtime for police officers and municipal workers, trash hauling, repairs to fixtures and property, condoms, Band-Aids and the food that inexplicably appears on the tables in your makeshift protest kitchens. Real people with real dollars are underwriting your civic temper tantrum.
* Your word is your bond. When you demonstrate to eliminate student loan debt, you are advocating precisely the lack of integrity you decry in others. Loans are made based on solemn promises to repay them. No one forces you to borrow money; you are free to choose educational pursuits that don’t require loans, or to seek technical or vocational training that allows you to support yourself and your ongoing educational goals. Also, for the record, being a college student is not a state of victimization. It’s a privilege that billions of young people around the globe would die for – literally.
* A protest is not a party. On Saturday in New York, while making a mad dash from my cab to the door of my hotel to avoid you, I saw what isn’t evident in the newsreel footage of your demonstrations: Most of you are doing this only for attention and fun. Serious people in a sober pursuit of social and political change don’t dance jigs down Sixth Avenue like attendees of a Renaissance festival. You look foolish, you smell gross, you are clearly high and you don’t seem to realize that all around you are people who deem you irrelevant.
* There are reasons you haven’t found jobs. The truth? Your tattooed necks, gauged ears, facial piercings and dirty dreadlocks are off-putting. Nonconformity for the sake of nonconformity isn’t a virtue. Occupy reality: Only 4 percent of college graduates are out of work. If you are among that 4 percent, find a mirror and face the problem. It’s not them. It’s you.
For those that may not know all the ends and outs of how to help someone who is writing a blog. I would like to give a little information that I am aware of that helps the one writing. For those receiving the blog by email, it helps to go to the blog site by clicking on the title of the post you receive in your email then read the post on the actual site rather then from the email you receive. Traffic to the actual site is a good thing.
Then it helps to leave a comment on the post that you read. Normally if you have never left a comment, then the first time it will have to be approved, after that you are typically able to leave comments that go through without being moderated.
Then it is helpful to share a post through other social media such as Facebook and Twitter. You can usually just click on the appropriate button and it then does the work for you, so to say.
I know I have only shared a few things, but if you know other ways that help, please do not be bashful and share you knowledge with me by leaving your comments so I and others can learn more on this.
I just received a note from someone asking if I sent out an email that was titled Bryansr, if you receive an email with that title please do not open and if you would please also let me know so I can attempt to stop it.
After a very long break, I am coming back. I know you all have missed me terribly since I get so many questions as to when I will start writing again. I appreciate the concern and interest. I am looking forward to get going again and to see where we all go. So fasten your seatbelts and get ready for takeoff. For those that like to live on the edge, please put your hands down as their are solid objects above that could harm you.
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