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Our "Going Rouge: Palin Rogue Coloring Book" is #1 in Political ... - Democratic Underground.com
Finance workshop a real-world class for MVHS students - ReporterHerald.com
A Populist Frankenstein - Daily Beast
The Pennsylvania Outdoor Life Team - Biographies - WNEP-TV 16

Our "Going Rouge: Palin Rogue Coloring Book" is #1 in Political ... - Democratic Underground.com

Posted: 27 Nov 2009 09:35 AM PST

Sarah Palin is NOT Number ONE in Political Biographies on Barnes & Nobles - WE ARE!

Our "Going Rouge: The Sarah Palin Rogue Coloring & Activity Book" is NOW number ONE instead.. I guess she does Best in the FICTION Dept, eh?

The Press has been phenomenal (especially considering we've spent the last 6 months caring for my wife's cancer riddled father, who passed last week) since we haven't been able to do any real PR on this. WaPost, NYTimes, AP - on Entertainment Tonight 4 days ago! Guardian, Entertainment Weekly, both online and IN their magazine!

We are rocking her world - next up we're working on book signings, and MAY even Follow her around on HER tour, and find Indy Bookstores down the street and hold signings there!! What'd'ya think of THAT?

Oh, here's the link if you want to check out Sample pages http://www.goingrouge.net

Remember, though we LOVE the Nation folks, like Sarah's book, they just offer ya a buncha words - we got PICTURES!

DU'rs get signed copies, btw, just ask, we'll be glad to make these suckers a collectible for ya, YOU BETCHA!

Here's a Previously Unpublished page from the book - "The Sarah Palin SELL OUT Snow Globe!"

Enjoy!

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Finance workshop a real-world class for MVHS students - ReporterHerald.com

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 04:55 AM PST

Planning a community event like a financial literacy workshop is taking a lot more work than Mountain View High School student Ashley McPherson expected.

"It's a lot of fun, but you have to think about every aspect of it," McPherson said as she worked on a flier during a recent sales and advertising class.

McPherson is competing with the 14 other students in the class to come up with the best flier, which will be used to help promote the workshop "Believe in Your Financial Future" Dec. 10 in the school's auditorium.

Dave Dillman, marketing instructor at Mountain View, tasked the semester-long class with organizing the workshop with the help of the Thompson School District chapters of DECA, an international business and marketing association formerly known as Distributive Education Clubs of America.

Dillman's students came up with the topics for the four-hour financial literacy workshop that will include managing money, establishing credit, estate planning and financing college. The students found experts to discuss each topic.

"Our goal is to get the conversation going between parents and students about these issues," Dillman said.

Dillman said some parents do not talk to their children about money management, including the importance of establishing credit and using checking and savings accounts to manage money rather than relying solely on cash from paychecks and payday loans.

"A lot of people could use this information," said Matt Peterson, 16, a student in Dillman's class and a second-year DECA student. "A lot of kids my age are spending money they don't have."

Peterson and the other students in the class are providing all of the publicity for the event, including creating fliers and developing a direct-mail campaign to the juniors and seniors in the school district.

In addition, the students are doing the event planning, such as figuring out the logistics for the workshop, setting up a speaker schedule and writing up biographies of the guest speakers.

"They're learning all about the hard work that goes behind advertising and promoting an event," Dillman said.

The workshops will include:

• Establishing good credit — Colorado State University Extension Office.

• Estate planning — Patterson Tabert Law Offices, Loveland.

• Money management — First National Bank.

• Saving, investing and establishing financial aid for college — College Invest, an education financing resource.

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A Populist Frankenstein - Daily Beast

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 05:59 AM PST

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Getty Images (3) Mix Lou Dobbs' brain, Sarah Palin's sensual warmth, and Glenn Beck's acting skills, and you've got one scary political monster.

"Who is Lou Dobbs?" As the genially malevolent talking head considers a bid for the presidency, a lot of people are asking themselves that question. It recalls another similar query, "Who is John Galt?"—a question that runs through Ayn Rand's sensationally popular 1957 novel, Atlas Shrugged.

Perhaps it's President Obama's increasing incapacity to seem actually engaged with his country's traumas beyond eloquently declaring his engagement, again and again, but I see failures of the liberal imagination everywhere—most recently in the way two new biographies of Rand were treated by the liberal commentariat who review books. This is too bad, because if you can't understand the popularity of Ayn Rand, you are never going to understand either the popularity of Lou Dobbs, or what seem to be Dobbs' outsized political ambitions.

Dobbs and Beck are self-created, hail from humble origins, and seem to have the audacity, not just to hope for change, but to wreak it.

Reviewers belittled Rand as a crackpot philosopher, or as a lousy novelist, or as a highly neurotic egoist desperately in need of some self-criticism. It would be hard to refute any of those judgments. But no one seriously considered her as a powerful mythmaker, whose archetypal tales of individual initiative and self-creation respond to the way a lot of Americans like to think of themselves. Some reviewers never even mentioned the self-made world-beater Galt.

Instead, they dismissed Rand's fans as examples of arrested development or as simply unhinged, in much the same way as the political historian Richard Hofstadter attributed the fanatical conservatism of the 1950s to a bad case of status anxiety.

But Rand's novels sell hundreds of thousands of copies a year, while the descendants of Hofstadter's hordes are a permanent fact of American life. The dysfunction of rage and resentment can only get you so far. There has to be something more to a populism that seems to be only getting stronger. In that sense, Rand's fiction is a "teachable" oeuvre.

Dobbs and Glenn Beck, who has also been making politically ambitious noises lately, are figures that seem to have walked out of an American nightmare, which for some people is in fact the American Dream. Like Rand's John Galt, the son of a mechanic who bends the static world to his dynamic will, Dobbs and Beck are also self-created, hail from humble origins, and seem to have the audacity, not just to hope for change, but to wreak it. Like Galt, they spring from the country's gut and therefore know how to speak to it.

Until now, such figures have stridden the phantasmal plains of American folklore and popular culture. Another similar character is Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes in the 1957 film A Face in the Crowd. Like Galt—a cross between Prometheus and Joe the Plumber— Rhodes is an eerily familiar precursor. A small-time television personality, he first attains popularity and power through the same type of abusive and abrasive behavior flaunted by his successors: He trashes his sponsor to the delight of the audience. Sales soar, and Rhodes is rocketed toward a political career before his hypocrisy and unrestrained appetites derail him.

It's significant that both A Face in the Crowd and Atlas Shrugged came out in 1957. That was the era of the advent of television, and both Rand and Budd Schulberg—who wrote the film—were inspired by the new medium's power to shape mass opinion. How much more powerful are our mass media now! Cable, combined with radical advances in permissiveness, and with the exponential amplifications of the Internet, is a demagogue's dream. With the dawn of our digital age, the demagogues of American folklore have become the real bugbears of American society.

The reviewers denounced Rand the novelist for her one-dimensional characters, but she knew what she was about. One-dimensionality is the key to myth; mythic characters are strangers whom, when we encounter them, we feel we have always known. In other words, mythic characters are celebrities. Rand was aware of this phenomenon, and so was Schulberg, who portrays Rhodes with an electric simplicity that makes him a kind of pre-celebrity before he is discovered. Both writers knew that celebrity—which provokes a feeling of intimacy with someone you don't and never will know as a person—was the new prerequisite to political success.

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The Pennsylvania Outdoor Life Team - Biographies - WNEP-TV 16

Posted: 25 Nov 2009 12:48 AM PST

Don Jacobs Pennsylvania Outdoor Life co-host Don Jacobs (Jake) joined the WNEP-TV team in 1982 right after college graduation. He graduated from East Stroudsburg University with a degree in Speech Communication and Theater.
While in college, Jake started an internship at WNEP-TV in the summer if 1982. Throughout his internship, he learned to appreciate and love television and news. He responded, "I guess you could call it being in the right place at the right time. I graduated from college on a Friday. The same day my internship ended, a full time position opened up. I started my television career the next Monday afternoon."
Jake spent eight years in charge of the Assignment Desk in the newsroom. Much to his surprise, he was approached one day by WNEP-TV's General Manager and offered the position of Producer for Pennsylvania Outdoor Life. Being an avid outdoorsman, he took the job without hesitation. After three years of producing the only local outdoor show in the area, he was asked to co-host Pennsylvania Outdoor Life. Today he is a recognized as a popular on air personality for WNEP-TV.
He also write stories for WNEP-TVs Home & Backyard, he Emcees the Muscular Dystrophy Telethon , the St. Joseph's Telethon and he sits on numerous boards in the community.
When Jake is not at work or out in the community representing WNEP-TV, he is busy spending time with his wife and two daughters. Besides hunting and fishing, his other hobbies include cooking, wine making, canning, mushroom picking and nature walks.
Jake was born in West Pittston, Luzerne County and graduated from Wyoming Area High School. He has lived in northeastern Pennsylvania all his life.
Brian Hollingshead
Pennsylvania Outdoor Life producer Brian Hollingshead joined the WNEP-TV family in 2000 right after graduation from college. He graduated from Kutztown University with a bachelor's degree in telecommunications.
While at Kutztown, Brian interned with WNEP and was assigned to work with Pennsylvania Outdoor Life. He immediately fell in love with the show and, through his appreciation of the outdoors, decided that working on the show is what he wanted to do.
Brian spent two years in the news department as a photographer until the fall of 2002 when the position he dreamed for opened. Since then Brian has been the guy behind the camera on everything from deer hunts, bass fishing trips, along with a variety of other outdoor activities.
When Brian is not enjoying the outdoors while on the clock, you can pretty much bet that he'll be enjoying them with his friends and family. He is and avid hunter and fisherman to which he thanks his grandfather and father for instilling in him. He is a member of the Trevorton East End Rod and Gun Club located in Weikert, Pennsylvania.
Brian was raised in Shamokin, Northumberland County and graduated from Shamokin Area High School. He now resides in the Wyoming Valley.
Dave Aucker
Dave Wayne Aucker is a member of the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association (MLNRA), The National Rifle Association (NRA), and the Pennsylvania Federation of Black Powder Shooters. Dave and his wife Mary Lou are also 18th Century reinactors. They are partial to the French and Indian War time period and are members of the 3rd Pa. Battalion, Augusta Regiment, which was the provincial regiment funded by the Pennsylvania Government.
Dave simply enjoys hunting with black powder firearms. "I love to hunt for anything with a flintlock firearm. It can be squirrels with a 40 caliber or deer with a big bore, wing shooting for pheasants to cottontail rabbits in the snow. I love it all. A flintlock or shotgun can add a whole new dimension to your hunting experience."
Dave's bow of choice is the longbow and he would pick fly-fishing as his favorite angling sport. Dave and his wife, Mary Lou, live in Laurelton, Pennsylvania. They have two daughters and a grandson.
E-mail Dave at: flintlockfanatic2003@yahoo.com
Dale Butler
Dale Butler is the President of the Red Rock Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF), a member of the National Rifle Association (NRA), A Life Member of the North American Hunting Club and a member of the Pennsylvania Deer Association. He also belongs to the Bowman Creek Watershed Association and is a Charter member of the Sunrise Farm Rod & Gun Club in New York.