Your Business Blogger(R) reviewing
The Manager's Formula For Success Knowledge+ Network= Success

Managers looking for a formula for success do not need complicated, expensive, pronouncements from academia* or beyond.

As Occam's Razor suggests, the simplest solution is usually correct.

See E=MC squared. Einstein simple.

Email me if you would like an expansion on the formula and the key constant, support.

Professional managers know well that Knowledge can be nil in the formula and the manager can still be successful.

The Pros know that, if given a choice between Knowing and Getting -- for example, the hiring manager evaluating a candidate for a management slot -- chooses the ability to garner support.

Even more than knowledge.

A manager can know nothing -- but as long as the net in his network is well constructed, he will not be let down.

The transcript is at the jump.

Knowledge plus Network equals Success

The Penta-Posse (-) and Einstein
at Princeton University

Monkey Business
Management

Thank you (foot)notes:

*Your Business Blogger(R) is an Adjunct Professor of Management in Business Technologies at the Northern Virginia Community College.

See: The William Oncken Corporation Announces Licensed Marketing Agreement With Management Training of DC, LLC,

Press Release: The William Oncken Corporation Announces Licensed Marketing Agreement With Management Training of DC, LLC

Dallas, Texas, July 4, 2007 – The William Oncken Corporation (WOC) is pleased to announce it has signed on Management Training of DC, LLC, (MTDC) to launch an initiative to broaden the world-wide reach of WOC’s leadership training products.

Since 1961, The William Oncken Corporation, (WOC) a management consulting company, has trained more than one million managers and leaders. WOC’s flagship seminar, Managing Management Time™, was specifically designed for those individuals in an organization who are valued as much, if not more, for their judgment and influence than for their time and personal effort.

For more on William "Bill" Oncken see bio at the jump.

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Back row, L to R: Belinda Culberson,
Congressman John Culberson, Mike Huckabee
Front, L to R: The Dancer, Baby Boo,
Miss Culberson, The Diva, The Dude
Back ground Bob Wickers, Charmaine
Credit: Panoramic Visions/CPAC 2008 The Purple State-New York Times has a video on Mike Huckabee's campaign. The clip claims that Huckabee changed, modified his positions once he became popular and donations came in. (Oh how these liberals love evolution...)

The narrator makes the assertion that Huckabee "compromised his position" on the conduct of the war.

The Purple Stater implies that Huckabee grew in office and had to change his positions on the war and immigration to satisfy big-money donors.

Two problems with the PS-NYT clip:

1.) Huckabee remained constant on his positions, and
2.) Big-money donors were not all that big.

Goodness, it would have been nice to be tempted by big donations. But the temptation was easily avoided because the really big money; wheel barrels full of cash weren't there.

Alert Readers will recall that funding for Huckabee staff had to be cut back after the loss of South Carolina by 3 points to McCain. Most of the campaign workers were released, resigned or worked for free.

The clip speaks of Huckabee being "cavalier on going to battle." This is a liberal interpretation, of course. In that there are no wars of which liberals approve. Huckabee as governor was most sensitive to the responsibilities of the leader sending soldiers into harm's way. And that Huckabee saw this as a weighty -- a deadly responsibility.

Just as he exercised the death penalty in Arkansas.

"Cavalier" is precisely the wrong word.

The New York Times gets Huckabee wrong. But this is not news.

Your Business Blogger(R)
was honored to be an
Official Blogger, CPAC 2008

Thank you (foot)notes:

Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D., served as Senior Advisor to the Huckabee for President Campaign.

Purple States: Huckabee Reviewed.

I would suggest that this clip is designed to malign Huckabee for his "deep conviction for life." Abortion is the sacrament for the liberals' theology.

Purple States is less Red than Blue,

"This election season, we aren't interested in hearing politicians and pundits talk about what the people want. We don't want analysts to trot out a list of issues that have polled well, or polled badly. We don't want one campaign to focus-group-test a pitch here, and another campaign to focus-group-test a pitch there, and use the results to divide and conquer. We are tired of hearing about who is jockeying for first place in the presidential horse race. This election is about more than politics, politicians, or political science. It is about us.

We want to see a mother of three with medical bills of over $15,000 ask Mike Huckabee how his health insurance proposal can help her. We want to see a pistol-packing Republican ask Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama how they propose to keep the country safe. We want a man with Mexian-American [sic] grandchildren to talk with John McCain or Mitt Romney about their immigration policies, and be challenged by the wife of a construction worker whose livelihood is being threatened by cheap labor. This is Purple States. There is no filter and no script. We are a group of citizens who look like America, going nose-to-nose with the candidates and each other, asking the questions closest to our hearts, wrestling with the implications of this choice for us, our families, our communities, and our country."

I'm not sure about the compassion of Purple States for the plight of immigrants when they can't spell 'Mexican." This is liberalism defined: All heart; no brain.

Alert Readers know well that when compromise is presented, it is always the conservatives who must move. When does the liberal democrat change on abortion?

Purple States is run by Cynthia Farrar, Ph.D. from Yale University. Your Business Blogger(R) and Adjunct Professor of Management would challenge any reader to identify a pro-life conservative in the political science department at Yale. I would suggest Dr. Farrar is pro-abortion and wants a 'pro-choice' president. And uses Purple States to move the country from Red to Blue.

Special appreciation to Lisa De Pasquale, CPAC Director, The American Conservative Union. About CPAC 2008,

“… A showcase of the heart and soul of American conservatism” Los Angeles Times

“… Unmatched in both the numbers it draws and the quality of speakers who appear”
The Politico

“ The nation’s premier gathering of conservatives…a key event for conservative candidates ever since the first gathering was held in 1974.”
NewsMax

Bob Wickers of Dresner, Wickers and Associates, is the genius behind the filming of the Huckabee TV spots. His firm is based in San Francisco (!).

Please email me any spelling corrections. Extra credit for the Alert Reader...

Watch Cynthia Farrar on Beet TV,

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Charmaine presenting a lecture
at Princeton UniversityThere are two major types of stem cell research.

One has the media hype and the hysteria of the Party of Death.

The other has results.

Alert Readers will understand the difference between an adult stem cell and an embryonic stem cell.

Your Business Blogger(R) is often accused of being simple. Dividing the world into Good and Evil.

Adult stem cell research: Good.

Embryonic stem cell research: Evil

The Family Research Council is providing some background,
Adult stem cells are already providing therapeutic benefit to human patients for 73 diseases and conditions.

As seen in,
"Clinical Applications of Blood-Derived and Marrow-Derived Stem Cells for Nonmalignant Diseases" (Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2/27/2008)

The FRC video clip shows three success stories with Charmaine providing a brief analysis. Click Here for video link. Forgive the extra click to the FRC site.

Amy Daniels, successfully treated with adult stem cells for Systemic Scleroderma

Jill Rosen, successfully treated with adult stem cells for antiphospholipid syndrome (a lupus-like disorder.)

Barry Goudy, successfully treated with adult stem cells for Multiple Sclerosis

Research and cures are now documented without experimentation on humans that results in the destruction of embryos.

The Party of Death
by Ramesh Ponnuru Read more at the jump.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Be sure to visit the Family Research Blog.

Alert Readers will accuse Your Business Blogger(R) of redundancy: The Main Stream Media are all members of The Party of Death.

Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D. is the Vice President for Communications for FRC.

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Mark Siljander and
Your Business Blogger(R) And I'm not alone.

"You know about that cliche: Want a friend in Washington, DC, get a dog?" Mark asks me.

"Yep, Truman, I think..."

"Not true," says Mark, laughing.

"Johnson?"

"No, no, the cliche is wrong." He's upbeat. A former public servant, currently indicted, unworried, unhurried.

Another congressman, Asa Hutchinson emailed us, "I consider myself an informal advisor and friend" of Siljander.

He still has friends. In this town! Alert the media...

Well, maybe not that.

Mark has been unjustly targeted and will be cleared. But this is when -- with most indicted congressmen -- friends who were actually "friends" and don't recall knowing le accuséd.

This is a case study on having friends. (Mark does have the added benefit of being innocent...)

"No one has left me," says Mark. "Except the media, thank goodness."

The helicopters, the satellite dishes, the circus have stopped blocking his drive way.

His friends stayed with Mark. Clients, however, have become a bit skittish. It is business, you see.

So his business has stopped, the bills have not. And the kids refuse to stop eating.

So what has caused all the ruckus? The government is confused over the source of funding for Mark's research. (Yes, yes, confused government is redundant.) Alert Readers can read the product of the work.

Get Mark's new book is A Deadly Misunderstanding, published by HarperCollins.

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A Deadly Misunderstanding
by Mark D. Siljander
Buy the book,
I did. His 13 trips to Sudan in 2007 seem to have raised some concern. And Mark speaks lotsa languages.

This is getting Siljander in trouble. Perhaps he should have traveled with Louis Farrakhan. And worshiped with Jeremiah Wright.

But instead of running for President, Mark Siljander was teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ attempting to bridge cultures.

And is paying for it dearly.

But Mark is taking this well and is not whining about the injustice --

(Nobody likes a martyr: that's why they killed so many of them...)

Alert Readers will recall that Congressman Siljander was the author of the Siljander Amendment to HR5490[5], which says simply that life begins at conception and would be under protection of the 14th Amendment.

Al Gore voted for it.

Mark has spent his life working on the issues that conservative, pro-life, God-fearing citizens care about.

He needs your help today.

Friends have set up a defense fund to help cover his legal costs. Please buy his book and contribute to his defense.

Please send contributions payable to:

"Greenberg Traurig, PC",

put on memo "Siljander Trust" and mail to:

The Honorable Edwin Meese
c/o Mr. Joe Reeder
Greenberg Traurig, PC
2101 L Street, NW
Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20037

Donate to this hard working friend. One never knows where random injustice will strike again.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Debbie Shlussel wonders, What Happened to My Former Boss Mark Siljander?

See A Deadly Misunderstanding.

From NRLC,

On June 26, 1984, the U.S. House of Representatives was considering the Civil Rights Act of 1984, a bill to expand the reach of key provisions of four previously enacted federal civil rights laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Pro-life Congressman Mark Siljander (R-Mi.) offered a one-sentence amendment to revise the bill's definition of the key term "person."

The Siljander Amendment read, in its entirety, "For the purposes of this Act, the term 'person' shall include unborn children from the moment of conception."

The House conducted a straight up-and-down vote on the Siljander Amendment which failed, 186-219.

Mark Siljander is a car-guy. Elected to congress at 29, he tooled around town in DeLorean. (Jalopnik reports a comeback in 2008.) One of his projects was a frame-off restoration of a Hurst Olds 442.

Mark's wife sent us an email. Excerpts at the jump.

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Sherman Tank vs Ford Mustang,
Fort Knox, KY, ca 1978
credit: Your Business Blogger(R)
Back in the days of the horse cavalry, Your Business Blogger(R) served a tour of duty as an Armored Officer.

And volunteered at the Patton Museum at Fort Knox, KY. Working on restoring vintage military hardware.

One of the first lessons taught was that large armored tracked vehicles, ie, tanks, had limited fields of vision in close quarters. So a ground guide -- a human walking in front and behind -- was routinely assigned to keep the masses of metal from unnecessary collisions.

Not always successful.

Sometimes deadly.

Watch the video comparison test between another wheeled and a tracked vehicle. Surprise ending.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Credit to Marshall Manson from London for Twittering this comparison .

And no, I was not driving either vehicle...

Please email your comments.

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Charmaine, Your Business Blogger(R)
Penta-Posse at the Grand Canyon
Easter 2005A few years ago Alert Readers will recall that Your Business Blogger(R) et al attended a Sunrise Service on the rim of the Grand Canyon in John McCain's home state. The Grand Canyon is Federal Property, but the surrounding locals quietly support a congregation of church and state.

McCain is a Red-State kind of guy -- even though Arizona is one third blue.

So it is likely that McCain would permit a continuation of Easter Services on Federal Lands.

But would any Democrat candidate? Obama or Clinton?

We may have a hint. We know the church habits of Obama and the Clintons.

Cross Obama attends the Hate America First church and is mentored by Jeremiah Wright.

The Clintons attended Foundry Methodist church when they lived in the White House in Washington, DC.

Your Business Blogger(R) attended services a time or two at Foundry Methodist during the Clinton tenure. It is a liberal church that differs from Obama's church only by degree, not kind. I stopped visiting.

Your Business Blogger(R), John Wesley Yoest, now has little use for the church founded by John Wesley.

The United Methodists at Foundry have run off the Biblical rails,

"...we proclaim this statement of welcome our gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender brothers and sisters: we affirm you..."

Obama and Clinton support liberal churches. Clinton's church supports Obama's church. It is likely they would both enforce liberal theology. It is certain Obama and Clinton will both support liberal positions.

Sunrise Service, Grand Canyon
Photo Credit: The Dreamer

I would predict that either Democrat would shut down Easter Services at the Grand Canyon.

McCain would let the services continue.

Happy Easter.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Easter: He Is Risen; Family, Faith & Freedom

He is risen! He is risen indeed!

See Clinton's church -- Foundry's supporting STATEMENT CONCERNING THE REV. JEREMIAH WRIGHT -- Obama's church, at the jump.

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Is Obama Wright? - Pastor Jeremiah Wright & Senator Barack
forwarded by Soren DaytonFellow Blogger Soren Dayton forwarded an outstanding video that weaved Barack X. Obama's words and actions and pictures.

We live in the sight and sound generation. Where our preferred medium of communications is the moving picture.

A recent human resource management survey revealed that some 80% of influencers and decision makers in hiring will view a video of a job applicant. If you are applying for a job -- send a YouTube.

This is what Soren Dayton did. The video Soren Dayton forwarded is a type of job application for Obama and the presidency.

It is compelling! It is creative! It is brilliant!

Soren Dayton is fired. The McCain campaign threw Soren under the bus.

So Soren Dayton is out of the campaign gig. Which makes him available. Hire Dayton for your next project.

Dayton will get you noticed...

Thank you (foot)notes:

Join the Support Soren Dayton! group on Facebook. Your Business Blogger(R) did. I'm member number 61, I believe.

Soren Dayton volunteered his time and good name to support John McCain's candidacy for the Presidency. When he linked, via his Twitter account, to a hard-hitting video mashup against Barack Obama, the McCain campaign dumped Soren, and a national media conflagration ensued.

The purpose of this Facebook group is twofold:

1) To express support for Soren Dayton.
2) To let the McCain campaign know that we expect them to FIGHT, not roll over at the merest hint of controversy.

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Barack Obama with
America Hater Jeremiah Wright "I'm here to help you get elected. Do you want me to campaign for you? Or against you?" Quipped Jerry Falwell to a conservative candidate.

Your Business Blogger(R) once served on the Board of The Family Foundation in Virginia and had the honor of meeting Falwell and learning how he was so effective in politics.

The burden of the candidate is to know how to gather support, package it and send it forth, was Falwell's philosophy. Falwell has a lesson for Obama.

Jeremiah Wright had said, "God D@m America" from the pulpit. Wright is a part of Obama's life, formerly with the campaign.

Gary Baurer, left, Jerry Falwell, and John McCain far right
Liberty University function, Lynchburg, Virginia, 2006
photo credit: Charmaine Barack Obama must distance his candidacy from his pastor. Obama's problem is to know who should do the talking.

And it's not him.

Every sales professional, account manager and marketer knows the value of using surrogates, or testimonials as they are known in business. The classic Xerox sales training program, Personal Selling Skills or PSS, taught that a sales rep only uses proof when faced with customer skepticism of the value proposition.

To use a third party if the sales rep was not believed.

If the customer didn't believe the sales representative, then, and only then would the sales pro present backup evidence -- a believable third party endorsement who does the talking. The sales rep knows that this is when his voice is silent and the customer should hear the testimonial from another customer or respected authority.

The salesman, like the politician must shut up. Difficult for both to do.

Barack Obama is sounding like a salesman who keeps talking and talking when the sale is not being made. It sounds like pleading, like whining -- even if the words are elegant: it doesn't sell.

Your Business Blogger(R) carried as bag as a sales guy for decades and made the same mistakes as Obama is doing, but without the eloquence. But the problem has a simple sales solution.

Barack with the cussing "Reverend" Wright or to a much lessor extent, McCain with Pastor Hagee, should not keep talking. The candidate as sales guy is not going to fix the unfavorable endorsement in this instance.

Only the witness, the source of the testimonial, the endorser can help the candidate/sales rep. Obama has said enough.

Jeremiah Wright could help Obama by telling all, telling early, telling often -- only Wright can now convince voters that Obama does not hold Wright's Hate America First position. Only Wright can, well, preach that Obama does not believe that white people are evil. Only Wright can now say that Obama has different values.

Only Wright can make right.

Wright should do the talking -- but with out the hate, with out the cussing.

But McCain shouldn't worry: Wright won't be able to do it. And Obama will continue to think he can talk his way out of this.

Obama is wrong. And he will lose.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Full Disclosure: Charmaine served as senior advisor to Mike Huckabee for president campaign.

Is John McCain Courting the Religious Right?

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Update: See The New York Times on Clinton's reaction.

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Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D. addresses
the 2,600 attendees at last year's Summit
Photo Credit: Peter Shinn Hold September 12 on your calendar for the Values Voter Summit in Your Nation's Capital.

Called "the most exciting meeting there is in Washington" by author and radio host Bill Bennett, FRC Action's 2007 Values Voter Summit (formerly "The Washington Briefing") attracted over 400 national and international members of the media, a waiting list of speakers, and thousands of values voters representing nearly every state in the union and many foreign countries.

On September 12-14, 2008, 60 days before an historic election, FRC Action (a 501c4) will host its third annual Values Voter Summit at the Hilton Washington in downtown D.C., and you are invited.

As a participant in one of the conservative movement's must-attend events of the year, you'll have the opportunity to hear from some of America's key leaders at a decisive moment in our nation's history, including invited speakers such as Newt Gingrich (confirmed), Chuck Colson, Lou Dobbs, Bill Bennett (confirmed), Lt. Col. Oliver North, Gov. Bobby Jindal, Gov. Mike Huckabee, Star Parker (confirmed), Justice Clarence Thomas, Patricia Heaton, Roger Hedgecock (confirmed), House and Senate leaders, and all the 2008 presidential nominees.

Charmaine at the podium 2006 In addition to lively discussions on issues ranging from life, marriage, school choice, and radical Islam to judicial activism and religious liberty, attendees can take part in: celebrity book signings; breakout training sessions; Radio and Bloggers' Row; special co-sponsored meals hosted by Focus on the Family Action, American Values, and Alliance Defense Fund; a unique student track (including a Friday night reception); and the Faith, Family, and Freedom Gala Dinner on Saturday evening.

The Values Voter Summit is quickly becoming one of Washington's most anticipated weekends of the year. Packages start at just $95 for adults and $50 for students and pastors. Sign up now and enjoy a $25 early-bird discount! Registration opens online tomorrow, March 15, at www.valuesvotersummit.org. Call 1-877-372-2808 for more details.

Thank you (foot)notes:

See Values Voter Summit 2007 and more.

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The Superbowl is the Christmas card deadline for most folks sending out a yearly update(!). Not here. Tax Day is a dual deadline for us this year: cards and forms. Alert Readers will recall that the Huckabee campaign provided a delightful distraction for Your Business Blogger(R) and Charmaine and the Penta-Posse this past season. Merry Christmas!

See Christmas Past and what to take from a burning building.

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Ladies, You are not perfect, and you don't have to beLadies only please. The first step Your Business Blogger(R) advises women who are managers or who aspire to take on more responsibility is to understand -- and appreciate the risk of failure.

And how really unimportant failing is.

Men also need to be reminded of the nature of risk -- but men are hard-wired differently from women on risk-taking. Men naturally take risks. Women less so.

Women are indeed more relational and nurturing -- but the real challenge is to understand that perfection is not required. No, biology is not destiny, but it is instructive. For example, women are hard-wired not to assume risk. Women as care-givers for infant children know instinctively that failure in her "job" will result in a dead baby. Perfection in constant care and attention and feeding are absolute. Don't feed a new-born for a few hours and the outcome can be tragic. Women are not permitted any margin of error in infant care. Women worry about children and relationships -- Charmaine wrote about this in her book: Mother in the Middle: Searching for Peace in The Mommy Wars. Men worry less about the kids when at work.

We see this in Academia. Studies have shown that male scholars will publish more articles -- but they will be of lower quality than compared with their female counterparts. Women will publish fewer papers, but they will be cited by other scholars more than male-authored articles. Women write better articles.

Women, I have also learned from clients and students, are perfectionists: they do not guess at test questions, do not use aggressive test taking or management strategies.

Women prefer all the traffic-control lights to be green before getting in the car to leave town.

Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of HP who engineered the merger with Compaq, writes about perfection in her book, Tough Choices. She calls this management philosophy "perfect enough" to encourage HP's culture that mistakes will be made, but this is the only path to success. "The goal is not perfection; the goal is progress," she writes.

The Dude getting a hit 2007In seminars, I review baseball's at-bat analogy. If a batter only gets on base 4 out of 10 times, he is a super star.

Many women might view with horror a 60% failure rate. But management, like baseball does not deal in perfection. A manager can have a lot of strike outs, but an occasional home run will win games. A .400 batting average will make you a rich woman and win games.

Please watch the short video clip and let us know what you think. Our comments section is down so please email us.

Thank you (foot)notes:

See the video script at Management Training of DC. I originally wrote about women getting to first base -- so consumed I was with the baseball metaphor -- that Charmaine had to remind me that the base running has taken on another meaning in our sex-drenched culture.

Biology is not destiny, but it is a co-conspirator. Apologies to Sigmund Freud.

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Trinity United Church of Christ/Religion News Service
Sen. Barack Obama and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright God D@mn America,
God D@mn America,
God D@mn America...
The "Reverend" Jeremiah Wright cussing for the congregation.

Wright continues,

"We started the AIDS virus...
America is still the No. 1 killer in the world...
We supported Zionism shamelessly while ignoring the Palestinians"

Barack Hussein X. Obama tithed some $22,000 to Wright's church to enable him to use other profanities such as "SH!T" from the preacher's podium.

Goodness.

"Elmer Gantry" Wright gives new meaning to "Bully Pulpit."

Charmaine will have a one on one interview with Neil Cavuto to discuss the impact of Obama's pastor's statements and whether it will negatively impact Obama in the general election. Check local cable listing for Your World with Neil Cavuto.

Ronald Reagan said that personnel is policy. Obama is constantly telling us that he would surround himself with capable advisors. Because "Reverend" Wright has been one of them, the country should be worried.

Anyone who gets recruited for a top management job is hired for his wisdom and judgment. Obama admitted he's not old enough to display any wisdom to compete with McCain. Now Obama is demonstrating he doesn't have any judgment either.

Hit time is scheduled for 4:05 eastern. Please email us and let us know what you think. Your thoughts will be added to the comments section once our platform is repaired.

Charmaine at Princeton UniversityThank you (foot)notes:

See RONALD KESSLER's article in The Wall Street Journal. At the jump, Mr. Obama consulted Mr. Wright before deciding to run for president. And now Obama doesn't wear an American flag lapel pin. Mrs. Michelle X. Obama is not too happy with America either. Watch the video.

If Obama doesn't win and McCain does, Wright's first sermon might well be To H3LL With The Chief...

See A defense of Obama’s church and minister

Charmaine served as a senior advisor to the Huckabee for President campaign.

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William Tecumseh Sherman.
National Archives Our friends at Military.com have a short, four question test to determine which military model of leadership you might fit.

No wrong answer.

No bad answers either.

Your Business Blogger(R) tests out as Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman.

Well.

I married into a Georgia family with deep Confederate roots. Poor back then, they would remind me when we visit near Atlanta, No slaves.

They are still mad about Sherman's March to the Sea. They'all are not going to appreciate my test results.

When in the south, do not say "Civil War." It was technically, "The War Between The States." We just wanted to leave, say my southern kin. The North wouldn't let us be and came after us.

Firing on Fort Sumter didn't help, though...

Take the Leadership Profile evaluation.

But if you are thankful for our current, reunited uniformed services, you might consider the Grateful American Coin. It is a Challenge Coin to present to veterans. Neat gift. 100% of Net Proceeds Benefit Wounded Veterans.

Your Business Blogger(R) bought a bunch. You should too. Why?

Why are we doing all of this? ...The answer is gratitude.

Grateful American Coin was founded on the belief that it is out of a deep sense of gratitude that we should honor and acknowledge the sacrifices of members of the U.S. military. In doing so, we should individually do what we can, however small, to help those service men and women who have sustained the most severe injuries.

We feel that there are a great many Americans who share our sense of gratitude and are looking for an ideal way to express it.

Grateful American Coin is a non-profit organization and has submitted a 501(c)(3) application.

Grateful American Coin is based outside of Tampa, FL and is entirely staffed with non-paid volunteers.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Thanks to John Howland at USNA at Large for the referral to Grateful American Coin. Unpaid link.

What's a Challenge Coin?

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Following is an excerpt from a panel discussion hosted by iConcept Media in New York City.

Pull Out Quotes,

If it's not core, Ship it off-shore.

If your business is growing more than 20% a year, you must buy some debt or sell some equity -- this is the only way to fund receivables, unless you have a cash business (or a Dell business model...).

In marketing run the numbers down the funnel: how many touches going in at the top, to an action, to a sale at the bottom of the funnel. Work that sale backward up the funnel to learn the size needed for your marketing budget. (And remember: Half your marketing budget will be wasted. You get paid to figure out which half. Apologies to John Wanamaker.)

Your job in business is to create a customer and make a profit. If you are not doing this, you do not have a business; you have a hobby.

Your Business Blogger(R) is honored to be speaking in Baltimore on March 26th; in Washington DC, on April 3rd and in New York City on May 29th.

For more Solutions To Your Management Problems please visit Management Training of DC, LLC

Visit USAToday Columnist Steve Strauss.

See Birol's Blog for Advice, Assistance, Attitude

And while in New York City, go visit the Indian Bread Company.

If you are looking for the perfect gift, go visit NYCSubwayLine. Your Business Blogger(R) did all his Christmas shopping on-line and got the coolest backpacks, clutches, hoodies and shirts for the Penta-Posse. The hoodie is The Dreamer's favorite. The cutting edge, high quality products are the brain-child of actress Lynne Lambert,

One day, while waiting for her train, Lynne found herself staring up at the subway signs with its big colored circles with the letters and numbers inside and thought "Why hasn't anyone ever done anything with these quintessential NYC icons? I bet people would wear them if it was done right!" And so the NYC subway Line was born. Licensed from NY State's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the tees have appeared in movies like "Bring It On" and "Prime," on MTV, BET and VH1 by artists and their audience, and worn by celebrities such as rapper "Fabolous" and President Clinton. Recently, Ms. Lambert was awarded the Make Mine a Million Business award that was founded by Count Me In for Women's Economic Independence along with OPEN from American Express where she received financing from OPEN, one year of intensive business coaching and mentoring from a dream team of successful women entrepreneurs, business software and training from Intuit, discounts on shipping and business services from FedEx, marketing assistance from QVC, and assistance on work/life issues and financial security from AIG.

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Baby Boo in the Huckabee Iowa
Campaign Headquarters
Working hard for the mommyCharmaine's article in NRO was exerted in the PatriotPost; The Conservative Journal of Record, today.

She wrote about the Enthusiasm Gap between McCain and the base that turned out for Huckabee.

"The problem the GOP faces right now is that they never have understood the political significance of Mike Huckabee’s extraordinary candidacy and electoral buoyancy... Mike Huckabee offered a voice for a significant portion of the electorate that feels disenfranchised.

Unfortunately for the GOP, the synonym for this group is ‘their base.’ "

Chuck Norris and The Dude
backstage in Des Moines
Huckabee Campaign Manager Chip Saltsman
in background at left

Character
Mike Huckabee

Thank you (foot)notes:

Charmaine served as senior advisor to the Mike Huckabee for President campaign.

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The women of Saturday Night Live are not the only ones with the hots for Obama. He's got the looks, the laid-back cool. The calm, the voice. Obama.

Obaby.

And many women share SNL's female's affections. Deep, deep affection. Be sure to watch the video clip with the moaning and groaning -- the near ecstasy. O-O-Obama. Oh my.

Watch the women, watch out for the big "O's." If-you-know-what-I-mean-and-I-think-you-do.

Obasm.

O. Obama. Oh, brother.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Full Disclosure: Charmaine served as senior advisor to the Mike Huckabee for President campaign. She knows better than to make light of any candidate's name. But not Your Business Blogger(R).

The Nineteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920 in national elections. There was much resistance to women's suffrage because clear thinking men at the time knew that women would soon be a-swooning over an empty suit -- no matter how well filled out.

This is a well established fact. Just ask any group of clear thinking men dining at Hooters.

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Charmaine on an earlier FOX appearance Charmaine will appear on FOX & Friends on Saturday Morning.

She is attending the National Religious Broadcasters Association convention in Nashville. The Diva is there also as the Body Girl; the Charmaine Sherpa.

Charmaine will be interviewed about a legislator in Florida who is introducing laws to recognized Muslim holidays in the school system.

Hit time is scheduled to be 7:20am Eastern. Please tune in and let us know what you think. Or email us.

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Your Business Blogger, Ken Starr, Charmaine, circa 1997 Obama aid Samantha Power calls Hillary Clinton, "A monster...off the record." Power soon changed her mind, but lost her job anyway.

Howard Wolfson on Clinton's staff recently compared Obama with Ken Starr.

This explains the Obamican Republican cross dressing over appeal. If Obama is as good as Ken Starr...

Ken Starr being, of course, one of the heroes of the conservative movement.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Full Disclosure: Charmaine served as an advisor to the Mike Huckabee for President campaign. She never called anyone a monster.

Prepare Yourselves for a Settlement

See Obama 'Monster' Aide Departs, Ken Starr Unavailable for Comment,

I'm really beginning to enjoy this Democrat foodfight between Barack [deleted] Obama and Mrs. Clinton.

The fur started flying Thursday when Clinton's oily spokesthing was dumb enough to compare Obama to Ken Starr.

Then Obama's nutcase adviser Samantha Power called Mrs. Clinton a monster. Not that I disagree with Power much on that, but you do want to watch yourself speaking in public, OK?

By NEDRA PICKLER
The Associated Press
Friday, March 7, 2008; 12:24 PM

WASHINGTON -- A Barack Obama adviser resigned Friday after calling rival Hillary Rodham Clinton "a monster."

Samantha Power, an unpaid foreign policy adviser and Harvard professor, announced her resignation in a statement provided by the Obama campaign in which she expressed "deep regret."

"Last Monday, I made inexcusable remarks that are at marked variance from my oft-stated admiration for Senator Clinton and from the spirit, tenor, and purpose of the Obama campaign," she said. "And I extend my deepest apologies to Senator Clinton, Senator Obama and the remarkable team I have worked with over these long 14 months."

Lord, another Harvard feminist run a muck-raking.

McCain's advisor is an Obamican?

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Governor Huckabee and Charmaine
In the background, Princella Smith and The Diva Charmaine has an article on National Review Online discussing the Huckabee campaign and an opportunity for McCain. Sign of the Times: The GOP should not underestimate the political significance of Mike Huckabee.

Pull-out quotes,

"Mike Huckabee offered a voice for a significant portion of the electorate that feels disenfranchised.

Unfortunately for the GOP, the synonym for this group is “their base.” "

Want to count votes? Count the kids -- the leading indicator.

"Prior to the Iowa caucus, my own children worked next to a young girl whose mom flew her up from Texas to the Des Moines HQ, just to work the phones."

The Dude and The Diva on the phone bank
in Des Moines, Iowa As the liberals say, it's all for the children...

"The Republicans are going to have to find a way to address this Enthusiasm Gap. But to the extent that the GOP establishment recognizes that Huckabee was at the forefront of a political phenomenon occurring under their noses — has a previous campaign ever achieved so much with so little? — they appear to be responding by maligning it rather than attempting to mobilize it."

The Penta-Posse at the
victory party in IowaTimeCharmaine closed with,

"This campaign, [McCain] said, would be about “Big Things.” What are the Big Things? Terrorism, tax cuts, judges and doubling back in the end to winning the war.
This is precisely the driver behind the political phenomenon of Mike Huckabee’s remarkable run: he understood — and was willing to stand up and say in the face of ridicule — that life, marriage, and the cultural concerns of everyday moms and dads are some of the Biggest Things of all."

But it looks like McCain may be working on this. The Wall Street Journal reports in Now McCain Looks to the Fall,

"Sen. McCain will need to shore up the Republican base, including evangelical conservatives in the South and elsewhere who have been slow to warm to his candidacy.
"We've got to energize the party," he told reporters yesterday. "We win elections by getting people to volunteer, to get on the phones, to call their friends, to register voters...I understand how hard this campaign is going to be." "

Pundits can predict McCain will win in November when the kids are on the McCain for President phone bank -- just as was done for Huckabee.

The Dude at the Victory party in Iowa
Photo Credit: Brooks Kraft from Time

Thank you (foot)notes:

Comment section is still down. Please email us with your thoughts.

Read the entire article here.

Read more analysis at Northern Gleaner with The GOP's Biggest Problem - The Enthusiasm Gap

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Governor Huckabee and Charmaine
In the background, Princella Smith and our Diva-girl Watching the Huckabee concession speech and leaving the race Tuesday night made for an emotional evening in the Yoest household.

Charmaine sent short emails to the Huckabee team -- their responses were each measured and even-tempered, almost upbeat, having fought the good fight.

Today's Washington Update, from FRCAction notes:

Despite his exit, no one can deny how influential Mike Huckabee was in championing values issues in this crucial race. While yesterday was clearly a victory for McCain, the Arizona senator acknowledged that his work is just beginning.


To succeed in his bid for the White House, McCain must consolidate his support among conservatives, including social conservatives, which will not happen just because he is the Republican nominee.


In the wake of the Republican scandals that began to surface in 2006 and the failure to advance most of the social conservative agenda, unqualified support for the GOP has diminished.

David Huckabee and Charmaine

A poll released last month by George Barna revealed that if the election were held then, only 45 percent of Evangelicals would vote for a Republican candidate.


That number is down from 85 percent of Evangelicals who voted for George W. Bush in 2004.


John McCain will have to convince social conservatives that their issues matter and that he can talk about them as a candidate and act upon them as president.

Conservatives/evangelicals still have questions about McCain's stand on the major issues of family values, immigration, campaign finance and women in combat. But McCain is our guy.

Obama-Clinton is not.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Read Mike and Janet Huckabee's email at the jump.

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Alright, so we know I wasn't a fan anyway.

But seriously: ". . . where the rats don't outnumber the computers. . . " -- that is just way over the top.

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The Dude and Baby Boo circa 2005
USAF Academy The Dude wants to fly military war planes. Never too early to start planning. So which branch? Air Force or Navy?

John Howland who runs USNA-AT-Large has (very) Alert Readers who have written in with suggestions on just this topic. The following deserves a wide audience to aid the high schoolers -- and younger -- students in picking a military academy.

"Bill Taylor provides this handy guide for young Americans who have the choice --

Great comparison of USAF vs. USN Aviators. Pretty much fits my experience.
Regards, Bill

The piece is written by Bob Norris, a former Naval aviator who also did
a 3 year exchange tour flying the F-15 Eagle. He is now an accomplished
author of entertaining books about U.S. Naval Aviation including "Check
Six" and "Fly-Off".

Check Six
Bob Norris

In response to a letter from an aspiring fighter pilot on which military
academy to attend, Bob replied with the following:

22 December 2005
Young Man,

Congratulations on your selection to both the Naval and Air
Force Academies. Your goal of becoming a fighter pilot is impressive and
a fine way to serve your country. As you requested, I'd be happy to
share some insight into which service would be the best choice.

Each service has a distinctly different culture. You need to ask
yourself "Which one am I more likely to thrive in?"

Baby Boo, Your Business Blogger, The Dude
P-51 Mustang, USAF Academy

USAF Snapshot: The USAF is exceptionally well organized and well
run. Their training programs are terrific. All pilots are groomed to
meet high standards for knowledge and professionalism. Their aircraft
are top-notch and extremely well maintained. Their facilities are
excellent. Their enlisted personnel are the brightest and the best
trained. The USAF is homogenous and macro.

No matter where you go, you'll know what to expect,what is
expected of you, and you'll be given the training & tools you need to
meet those expectations. You will never be put in a situation over your
head. Over a 20-year career, you will be home for most important family
events. Your Mom would want you to be an Air Force pilot...so would your
wife. Your Dad would want your sister to marry one.

Navy Snapshot: Aviators are part of the Navy, but so are Black
Shoes (surface warfare) and Bubble Heads (submariners). Furthermore, the
Navy is split into two distinctly different Fleets (West and East
Coast). The Navy is heterogeneous and micro. Your squadron is your home;
it may be great,average, or awful. A squadron can go from one extreme to
the other before you know it.

Fly Off
Bob Norris

You will spend months preparing for cruise and months on cruise.
The quality of the aircraft varies directly with the availability of
parts. Senior Navy enlisted are salt of the earth; you'll be proud if
you earn their respect. Junior enlisted vary from terrific to the
troubled kid the judge made join the service. You will be given the
opportunity to lead these people during your career; you will be humbled
and get your hands dirty. The quality of your training will vary and
sometimes you will be over your head. You will miss many important
family events. There will be long stretches of tedious duty aboard ship.

The Chapel at the USAF Academy
Credit: The Diva

You will fly in very bad weather and/or at night and you will be scared
many times. You will fly with legends in the Navy and they will kick
your ass until you become a lethal force. And some days - when the
scheduling Gods have smiled upon you - your jet will catapult into a
glorious morning over a far-away sea and you will be drop-jawed that
someone would pay you to do it.

The hottest girl in the bar wants to meet the Naval Aviator.

That bar is in Singapore.

Bottom line, son, if you gotta ask...pack warm & good luck in
Colorado.

Banzai

P.S.: Air Force pilots wear scarves and iron their flight suits."

Thank you (foot)notes:

The Diva on the stick

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Chuck Colson Zondervan, the publisher of Chuck Colson's latest book, The Faith, Given Once, For All has invited Reasoned Audacity to offer questions. Later this week, on Thursday, March 6th, Colson will be considering what Charmaine and Your Business Blogger have submitted. Please email us your thoughts -- Colson will also review blog comments.

UPDATE: Here are questions and Colson's responses -- please email us with your impressions.

A few years you said that America is no longer a "Christian Nation." Can you expand on this statement?

America is not a Christian nation in the sense that it is dominated by Christian values. It has become largely post-Christian. We still have a strong Christian heritage; in effect we live off of that in many respects, because it provides the moral undergirding that allows our free society to continue. In God & Government you’ll find I deal with this in some depth, as I do also in How Now Shall We Live? I didn’t in The Faith, simply because The Faith is really about the fundamental doctrines all true Christians share, not about whether America is succumbing to secularism.

Also, in The Faith, you identify secular atheism and militant Islamism as the two main threats to Christianity today. If you had to pick between them, which do you think presents the greater threat and why?

As to the two threats to Christianity today, the greatest and most immediate is militant Islam. Islamo-fascists want to destroy us, and have access to weapons of mass destruction. So fortifying us against the assault of extreme Islamists is critical. But it’s a hard choice, because secularism is rotting us out from within. I guess it’s simply a question of which is the more urgent.

Email your thoughts.

A number of years ago Colson remarked that, "America is no longer a Christian nation." I've asked Colson to expand on his observation.

Colson's tag line is What Christians Believe, Why They Believe It, and Why It Matters. Colson reminds the Alert Reader that Christianity is a world-view that seeks out truth -- and believes that truth is knowable. Colson gently takes on Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens and Chris Hedges and Barry Lynn. Colson uses winsome argument. With a subtlety that Your Business Blogger has yet to master...

Colson notes that a majority of Christians do not believe in absolute truth and 60% cannot name 5 of the 10 commandments.

Knowing Jesus is a start. But is this really enough? A baby Christian should grow in knowledge. Bill and HIllary Clinton and Barack Obama might very well be able to say "Jesus is Lord" and believe in their hearts that He was raised from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit. The book of Romans would say that this is enough. Is Obama saved? If he passes St. Paul's litmus test, he would be. But Colson explains,

"Christians must see that the faith is more than a religion or even a relationship with Jesus; the faith is a complete view of the world and humankind's place in it. Christianity is a world view that speaks to every area of life, and its foundational doctrines define its content. If we don't know what we believe -- even what Christianity is -- how can we live it and defend it?"

Get The Faith
by Chuck ColsonMy second question for Colson would be, "Can a person be a mature Christian and permit abortion; to be pro-choice?" Is the Christian who believes in abortion "rights" practicing "Faith without works..."?

"Be ye transformed by the removing of your minds..." goes the old Bible study joke. Colson writes that we indeed become new creatures, renewing the mind. Taking on new habits; discarding the bad. Colson is a living testimony to this transformation. But it's not what many might think. My third question for Colson, "How on earth did you stop smoking cigarettes?"

Colson continues, "Christians do not impose; they propose a vision of a culture of life, to educate and persuade..." In academia and in business we call this continuous learning. Christians would call this growing in faith. To move from milk to meat. And Colson lives this out. At a mature age he changed his position on capital punishment after visiting mass-murderer John Wayne Gacy in prison. Colson also did a thorough study of C.S. Lewis's essay "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment." Colson's book is worth reading if only to learn of a man's journey to a compassionate defense of capital punishment. (Pages 189-190.) Any reader over 50 -- or teenager, to state the obvious -- will marvel at a man over 50, who can change his mind...

Colson closes his book on the spread of the good news in China. Rick Warren, who also wrote a blurb for Colson, once said that Christianity is being run out of Europe and Islam is rushing in to fill the vacuum. The religion of Marxism has been ruled out of China and Christianity is blossoming forth. China may very well become a "Christian Nation" as South Korea has become.

Colson points out that the variable for America's success is Christianity. He quotes an American journalist who reported on the Chinese study of American financial prowess. "We have realized," said the Chinese researcher, " that the heart of your culture is your religion: Christianity. That is why the West has been so powerful. The Christian moral foundation of social and cultural life was what made possible the emergence of capitalism and then the successful transition to democratic politics."

Aslan's On The Move. In China, anyway.

Thank you (foot)notes:

In Colson's footnotes he credits reporter Aikman for his writing, Jesus in Beijing. In consulting in China, Your Business Blogger was amazed to learn that the Christian society-change agents were...the lawyers. Imagine, lawyers who go to church. This is why there is hope for China.

And less for American politics. Obama said that,

"I think that it is a legal right that [homosexuals] should have that is recognized by the state. If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount, which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an obscure passage in Romans."

There is no mention of same-sex hook-ups in the Sermon on the Mount. The Book of Romans is hardly obscure. The passage Obama refers to is from the first chapter,

Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

Obama gets the Bible wrong. He's got lots of Christian company. He should read Colson's book.

Other blogs on the tour:

March 3 - One Year Bible Blog

March 4 - Acton Institute PowerBlog

March 5 - The Dawn Treader

March 6 - Reasoned Audacity

March 7 - Challies.com (thank you to Tim for this book blog tour model)

March 10 - Adrian Warnock

March 11 - Tall Skinny Kiwi

March 12 - Mark D. Roberts

March 13 - Rebecca Writes

March 14 - Jolly Blogger

Please email your thoughts.

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Charmaine speaking last year at AU
at far Right... Charmaine has two gigs today.

She will be speaking at American University in Your Nation's Capital tonight at 8PM. The Dreamer will be attending.

This is a return engagement. Charmaine spoke last year on Feminism and will be speaking on the same topic tonight.

Is Feminism Universal? will be the subject. From AU,

Join us Monday, March 3 at 8pm in MGC 200 at this exciting and sure to be lively event and listen to important women from diverse local organizations debate the nature of global and international feminism. Speakers include Dr. Charmaine Yoest from the Family Research Council, Carrie Lukas from the Independent Women’s Forum, Betsy Kim from the DNC, and the Acting Vice-President of NOW, Melody Drnach. Contact ae4199a@american.edu for more info.

Charmaine will also be interviewed on the Moody Broadcasting Network about the undercover recording of the bigots the baby killers liberals who work at Planned Parenthood. Check MBN or here for local listings. Hit time 3pm Eastern.

Actor: ...I really faced trouble with affirmative action, and I don't want my kids to be disadvantaged against black kids.


Planned Parenthood: Yes, absolutely.


Actor: And we don't, you know, we just think the less black kids out there the better.


Planned Parenthood: (Laughs) Understandable, understandable... This is the first time I've had a donor call and make this kind of request, so I'm excited and want to make sure I don't leave anything out.

So far no one has been fired from Planned Parenthood for supporting race-based abortions.

Thank you (foot)notes:

From the Family Research Council,

Racism Alive and Well at Planned Parenthood

A shocking set of recordings was released this week that could prove disastrous for Planned Parenthood's ties with the African-American community. Lila Rose, a pro-life student and reporter at UCLA, launched an undercover investigation aimed at exposing the racism of the nation's largest abortion merchant. With the help of an actor, she contacted Planned Parenthood clinics in seven states, inquiring if they would be willing to accept a donation earmarked for the abortion of black babies. The results were jaw-dropping.

Rose was appalled to discover that every last clinic agreed. Not one employee objected or questioned the request, even when the actor insisted that the purpose was to "lower the number of black people" in America. When the caller phoned an Ohio branch, he was told that Planned Parenthood "will accept the money for whatever reason." Read the outrageous transcript from the Idaho clinic, which is also available with Rose's other recordings in a montage [here]
...

Students at UCLA are so infuriated by the investigation that they are petitioning the university to cut all affiliation with Planned Parenthood. What few people realize is that the organization has a history of racism that has been ingrained since Planned Parenthood's earliest days, when founder Margaret Sanger advocated negative eugenics and spoke to a woman's branch of the KKK (Margaret Sanger, An Autobiography, 1938, p. 336-367). However, as is customary for Planned Parenthood, the organization has managed for decades to cover its tracks - and the facts. That task has just been made monumentally more difficult. Abortion has taken the innocent lives of over 14 million black children - a national tragedy that has begun uniting and mobilizing African-Americans across party, state, and financial lines.

We support a Pro-Life world-view. As found in our country's founding documents.

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Charmaine and Your Business Blogger celebrated the third birthday of our blog in February. We are honored by your visits and comments and links.

Friends used to ask us why we web-logged (before it was popular and accepted by normal people).

Our reasons were/are practical:

Charmaine, Your Business Blogger
Penta-Posse at the Grand Canyon
Easter 20051. Catastrophe. A secure remote web-based storage for our articles and pictures. Everyone should have favorite family photos stored on a server in addition to an album. Store Christmas pictures (the kids grow up so fast). So the only thing you need to take with you out of a burning house are the kids. All of them...

2. Clients. All small businesses need a blog. To communicate with customers and to cultivate a network of friends and referrals. Cheap marketing. Don't miss the next exciting management seminar!

3. Kids. What would Dad do? No, no, they don't ask that now -- this is for when we are gone. Search the blog, Penta-Posse. (Parents get smarter as children age.) Our biggest fear now-a-days is an electromagnetic pulse bomb (EMP) set off by terrorists as Frank Gaffney et al describes in War Footing that would wipe out our 2,000 posts. EMP a-coming if Oboma Obama elected.

4. Criticism. An honest critique and feedback is often helpful. The blogosphere is chock-o-block of Court Jesters and watch dogs.

5. Recruiting. Charmaine has found the best talent on the planet from Evangelical Outpost and TruePravda. And a pastor.

Charmaine observes that I learned my truncated style of writing while in the Army. Short sentences.

Short paragraphs.

As Don Suber instructs. Perfect for blogging.

Blogging has introduced us to bullies and saints.

Blogging has Charmaine getting the body count in London on 7.7, getting close to George Clooney and an occasional free movie.

Recent denial of service attacks have been a challenge to our web gurus who are distracted by (paying) clients. In-kind bartering has a down side -- comments are down. Please email us.

Thank you Alert Readers all. We are in your debt...

Thank you (foot)notes:

If you didn't bookmark this saint, do it now. Everybody wants to help Save The Earth, but nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

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