Two (2) New Members... the Random Cheer Project... Media Blackout...

Two new members!

Annie Oakley is a PAC and a ning site, so you'll be able to sign up and talk if you'd like. http://www.annieoakley.org. It's a great idea, love the name and the thought behind it.

Our other new member is Girl Politicized (http://girlpoliticized.blogspot.com/). Cool lips greet you when you pop over to the blog! She has an interesting blog talking about who Sarah Palin's VP pick might be... love the forward thinking. Most of us are gearing up for having Sarah run and she's already picking out the VP and probably the Cabinet as well.

I know I brag about you guys all the time, but it is phenomenal when you stop to think about all the brilliant and caring people on "our" side!

I get frustrated sometimes when I hear how conservatives are depicted. Supposedly we're selfish, greedy, rich capitalists... Instead we give more and we're not necessarily a group of Daddy Warbucks types, either. Look who had the money in this last election! Soros, Hollywood, the Unions, etc., etc.

Ah well... I'm working on tackling the media (hence the Media Blackout page on our website and the new Media Blackout group on Facebook). And, I've started another project (like I don't have enough to do) called the Random Cheer Project (http://randomcheerproject.blogspot.com, and it's on Facebook). It's a simple thing that came to me this morning as I was laying in bed trying to decide whether I really wanted to get up or not! Hope you'll check it out and join in spreading a smile or two. It's easy and it only costs a stamp or two to participate.

Operation Leper

http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/nov/07/operation-leper-sign-our-petition/

Carlos Echevarria, who has one of our member blogs, Let's Get It Right (http://carlosechevarria.blogspot.com/), posted a link to the petition "Operation Leper" on the Read My Lipstick Network Facebook page! I think his blog is Here's what you're agreeing to:

I pledge to publicly expose and actively oppose all of John McCain's
staffers smearing Sarah Palin and will oppose any candidate who hires these
people for a 2012 race. These smear artists must become political lepers for the
good of the country and the Republican Party.

I have no idea where it's going or what kind of impact it might have, but I like the idea of it!

http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/nov/07/operation-leper-sign-our-petition/

Another new member!

I'm NOT going to tell what the name of this blog means, you'll have to go look it up. It's worth looking up...

http://noliinsipientiuminiuriaspati.blogspot.com/ - Nolin Insipientium Iniurias Pati

It's an interesting blog, she's finding things that I don't normally come across in my daily Internet travels. I think you'll all enjoy and possibly be challenged by some of the posts! Glad to have our 85th blog!

My goal now is to break 100 this year. I wouldn't mind going much higher, but that's an attainable goal.

Hope you're all enjoying time with your families and friends... don't eat too much, left overs are great!

More members...

Two new members today!

http://blue-dot-blues.blogspot.com/ - Blue Dot Blues (another Texan!)

http://blatheringsblog.com/ - Blatherings Blog (a top-notch blog!)

We have two in line waiting for the blogroll to show up on their sidebars. Aren't we just the popular Network these days??? You know why? It's because of all of you and your top quality blogs.

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I'm still bummed that I won't be able to see Sarah on Monday. My husband was willing to get up extra early to get me to Augusta at 8:30 in the morning... but I have a huge charity event that night and have to be "on" from 1 a.m. until I collapse. I'm a host, a sponsor and I'm painting two chairs for the event (artists are donating painted chairs to auction). If Sarah would have just decided to come in on Sunday it would have been fine. Talk about a long day... she have four rallies in four different parts of the state. I'm sure she'll be flying in Sunday sometime, probably spend the night in Augusta, then jump over to Savannah on the coast, then to Perry which is in the middle of the state, then to north Georgia. She has to be flying, no way to drive that and make it from one event to the next I'd think, although it's sorta possible.

They're asking for the Georgia group on Team Sarah to volunteer at the rally. I have press credentials and could actually probably get up to talk with Sarah, or at least get close enough to get some good photos. Can you tell I'm really disappointed? Are you getting tired of my whining?

Ah well, the event I'm doing on Monday is going to help a LOT of kids and that's more important than going to a political event. I'm sure there are going to be many opportunities to see Sarah in the years to come. I've always wanted to do an Alaska cruise... hmmm .

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Go check out our two new members! Hope you're taking a look at all of them and trying to follow as many as you can.

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One more thing --- if you haven't already done so, please visit our map page and pop a pin in it so we'll know where you're located! Here's a link: http://www.readmylipsticknetwork.com/map/map.htm. Add a photo and a comment, too, if you'd like. It's fun getting to know all of you.

Sarah Palin in Georgia on Monday

Well, it's good news for everyone... but me. I can't get to any of these events and it's killing me knowing she'll be within reach-out-and-touch distance and I can't make it. If any of you reading this get there, please send photos!

The Chambliss for Senate Campaign today confirmed the venues for the four rallies scheduled with Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on Monday, December 1, 2008.

8:30 AM AUGUSTA
James Brown Arena
601 Seventh Street
Augusta, GA 30901

11:00 AM SAVANNAH
Savannah Civic Center
301 West Oglethorpe Avenue
Savannah, GA 31401

1:30 PM PERRY
Georgia National Fairgrounds and Agricenter
Miller-Murphy-Howard Building
401 Larry Walker Parkway
Perry, GA 31069

4:00 PM METRO ATLANTA
Gwinnett Arena
6400 Sugarloaf Parkway
Duluth, GA 30097

Doors will open one hour before each program begins. The events are FREE for the general public but in order to attend, you must RSVP at www.procatalog.com/saxby or by visiting the ‘Action Center’ at www.saxby.org.

Blogroll update # 438,392

It seems like our blogroll has been down for ages... and it has. We're in the same boat as countless blogrolls across the Internet. I think I have about 30 blogs I now have in the hopper waiting to be added to the blogroll.

I'm sorry to all of our newest members. I am still searching for an alternative. There's a blogroll on here, but the code is only good on your individual blog. It doesn't have a logo and all the other bells and whistles "our" blogroll has either.

I'm going to give them through the rest of this week then I guess I'll have to shell out some money and buy a program so we can keep up with our own. We could get hacked just as easily as them so I'm not really wanting to go that route, I have enough to do just trying to keep up with my work and all you wonderful, lively bloggers!

Getting to know all of you, and all of the others who've found me through our Network, has been a great experience. It gives me hope for the future of our country and our world.

A record... SEVEN, yep, 7 New Members!

Get your fingers ready as you'll be copying and pasting (or retyping if you really must ;-)

We have seven (7) new members to add to our rolls and you're going to love each and every one of these great blogs / websites! There's one that hasn't posted the blogroll yet, but I'm going to trust them to do it. I guess if they don't I'll just have to take them off the lists and never add them to the blogroll. Tell you what, rather than go through that, we'll make it six new members so I don't have to be a meanie.

Here's the six new members:

Praying Pundit - http://www.prayingpundit.com/

Red Mom, Blue State - http://redmombluestate.blogspot.com/

Young Red Elephant - http://www.youngredelephant.com/

Homeschool Patriot - http://www.homeschoolpatriot.net/ (that's the blog, they have a website also, http://www.homeschoolpatriot.com/)

Men for Palin - http://www.menforpalin.com/

Governor Palin for President - http://govpalin4prez.com/

Whenever you're having a so-so day, go pop onto some of your fellow-member's blogs! I try to add them all to my "follow" list, but we're up to 82 members now so even I'm having to pick and choose. What I'm doing, since I have a couple of different blogs, is adding a chunk to one, another chunk to another... that way I can scan through all your fantastic blogs and get the news. It's almost hard to find something new to write about after I read through all your insightful comments.

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We're building a conservative link list on http://www.readmylipsticknetwork.com/. If you have a favorite website for news, on abortion, education, immigration... a conservative yahoo or ning site... any conservative site... send me an email with the links and we'll check them out, then add if we can figure out where to put it! (read my lipstick at live dot com).

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Hope you ALL have a very Happy Thanksgiving. I'm thankful for many, many things and you all are part of the list!

Thanks for all the good wishes you've sent my way while I've been ill. I'm almost back to normal (my normal ;-) I wouldn't wish this nasty virus on my worst enemy.... just glad I didn't end up in the hospital like some others I know!

Wake Up America Movement is helping in Georgia!!!

Wake Up America Movement encourages your participation in a special phone drive on the potentially critical GA race (to prevent fillibuster proof Democratic Senate).

W.A.M. offers a special script for these calls (much better one than the GOP bank has) and other improved support materials for callers who volunteer.

We are aiming for 50 positive call responses per volunteers. Please do all you can.

Also, it's not too late to send local postcards as a GET OUT THE VOTE reminder. These are easy to print 4 to a sheet of plain cardstock and cut.

Postage for postcards is just .27 cents each. You can mail these to any local group lists you may have - or even just drawing addresses from your local phone book.

Remember, every vote counts in this important run off election. If you know of others who may want to help, have them come to this link, for further information on Georgia's Senate race W.A.M. Action. Then, they can sign in to Get Involved and will be sent their own Call materials:

http://www.wam08.org/TakeaStand.html

Thanks for participating in Wake Up America movement for democracy in action!

Like to help in the Georgia run-off?

The run-off between U.S. Congressman Saxby Chambliss (R) and Jim Martin (D) is tight according to most. Each side is, of course, predicting victory. Heard today that Obama has declined to come to Georgia to help Democrat Jim Martin. Some say he would only have come if it truly were a close race and it looked like he could be on the winning side...

I rec'd the following from a Facebook group that's out there working to make sure there are enough Republicans to sustain a filibuster...

Though we are running close on time... Anyone can contact the GaGop and
volunteer to "get-out-the-vote". As of last Friday, they were willing to pay for
airfare and lodging to those that could volunteer their time from Friday the
28th to Wed Dec 3rd. The GaGop can be reached (202)421-3651 & georgiadeployment@gagop.com.

If you're inclined to help but money is holding you back, give the GaGOP a call or send an email. It's hot and heavy down here, I'm getting three or four mailers, robo-calls and seeing a commercial every break about the election! Unfortunately, there will still be tons of people who say they didn't even know there was a run-off...

If you can't come, ask them if you can make phone calls.

Blogroll Update for Read My Lipstick Network Members

According to the note on our blogroll service website... they were planning on being back up on Thursday (as in, yesterday ;-) I got all excited when I read that the other day... then Thursday came and the same message was still posted... and then today, Friday, came and the same message was still posted...

However, being a glass half full type gal, I know it's going to be back up and running SOON. Maybe today...

You'll all know it's back up and running when the top logo changes (assuming I can figure out how to do that!!!).

Still down for the count with this nasty virus that's making the rounds in our neck of the woods. Worst I've ever personally encountered. It's pretty much shut down my news sites (Georgia Front Page, Fayette Front Page and Arts Across Georgia). Everyone in our office has this critter. We are all "telecommuters" in that we work from our homes (saves much on overhead ;-). What that means though is that we all caught it independently...

Here's hoping this never reaches your home town!

Another new member...

Here's our latest members: The Sarah Palin Blog, http://www.thesarahpalinblog.com/

Be sure to say "welcome" and if you like what you read when you visit, "follow" them if you're on Blogger!

We've grown from around ten blogs a few weeks before the election to 76 at the moment and we're affiliated with many, many other networks and groups which helps YOUR readership! I can't wait until we break 2,000 .

Thanks again for all your hard work and finger tapping. Keep those brains in tip-top shape as we're going to need to use every scrap of intelligence and wit we can muster in the next few years.

I know sometimes it seems like you're just venting or, on our worst days, wasting time... but you are NOT. We all give what we can and believe me it all adds up to one powerful movement! I remember in church having the minister or Sunday School teacher talk about how we make up the body. Some of us may just be that toe that keeps getting stubbed but we're building calluses! We all have a vital part and every short blog, every piece of information you share, every thought you type into your blog is meaningful. You never know who's reading and who you're reaching.

Have a GREAT Thursday!

Another new blog to share

Sarah continues to gather friends and supporters! We'd like to welcome Moreover! Sarah Palin for President 2012 to our illustrious list of blogs!

http://annakindt.blogspot.com/ - Moreover! Sarah Palin for President 2012

We have another one pending... soon as they get the blogroll on their site we'll tell you about them.

My blog post from Team Sarah

I thought this might be helpful to some of you as I know we'd all like to improve our blog readership AND, more importantly, take over the Internet in the next elections so we can WIN!!! I just posted this on Team Sarah.

Gearing up for 2010 and 2012

One area we were woefully behind in during this last election was on the Internet. My goal is for us to "own" the Internet by the time the next election cycle rolls around.

I'm a member of a number of groups on Team Sarah, and I'm involved with a number of other great organizations out there that are gearing up to win in the future.

We're behind, but the things that are happening here on Team Sarah and similar sites are helping close the gap.

I have a few suggestions for all who are organizing individual groups, be it by state or by other common ties. You may be way ahead of me, but here's some of my thoughts:

- Encourage everyone in your group to start their own blog outside of Team Sarah or other organizations. Wordpress, Blogger and Typepad are the three most popular free blogging systems with Blogger probably being the easiest.
- Make sure that your group and all the individual blogs cross-post links. That helps with your visibility on the Internet. I won't bore you with details.
- Join the other networks that are springing up and post their blogrolls on your blogs and websites. I'll name a few that I know of at the end of this.
- Start a website and link all the blogs onto that website. We have the Read My Lipstick Network. Every day we're adding 1, 2, 3 or more blogs to the rolls. Everyone is fired up!
- Post comments on other people's sites and blogs.
- Share stories and make sure you post the beginning paragraph and a title link back to the article. (Copyright laws do NOT allow the full posting of news articles without permission).
- When you post a link or story on a website or blog, be sure to give credit (hat tip) to the source and link back to their blog or website. It helps you both in search engine rankings and helps your readership (plus it's the right thing to do).
- Set up a Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo and Twitter page for your group. There are other similar type services out there, the more places you're located, the quicker we'll dominate the Internet. You'll need to have people assigned to watching over those sites as you'll need to stay current.
- If you are inclined to talk rather than write and you can sit in front of a video camera, start doing commentary and put yourself on YouTube. You'll need a basic program to edit your video. Post it on Google and Yahoo, too.
- Always put key words or tags at the bottom of your blog posts and videos. Helps people to find you and it helps in search engine rankings.

There's tons more you can do, those are a few basics that popped into my mind. Chances are you have some other ideas?

Here are some networking sites to check out (these are just a few, there are many, many more!). I've included some for every leaning, moderate, conservative, former Hillary supporter, etc.:

www.Sarah-cuda2012.com
www.ReadMyLipstickNetwork.com
www.SarahPalin2012.ning.com
www.FreeRepublic.com
www.Grassfire.org
www.JustSayNoDeal.com
www.ModernConservative.com
www.WAM08.org
www.ReaganAction.com
www.ReaganRoots.org
www.OurCountryDeservesBetter.com

I'm so impressed with Team Sarah and all the enthusiasm and great ideas that are being thrown out. Gives one hope for the future! You are all SO awesome.

Sign the petition going to Sarah...

Hi, I wanted to draw your attention to this important petition that I recently signed: "Sarah Palin for President 2012"http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/sarahpalin2012?e I really think this is an important cause, and I'd like to encourage you to add your signature, too. It's free and takes less than a minute of your time. Thanks!

(We have a link on our website, www.readmylipsticknetwork.com, bottom left, has a great photo of Sarah on it! Feel free to lift it and post it on your blogs)

One more thing about voting --- when you vote it will take you to a donation page. You do NOT NOT NOT have to donate any money and your vote will still count. Just close out the page when it flips to the donation page (unless you want to donate, your choice).

Another new member...

You're gonna love this one!!!

http://Vets4Sarah.net -- Veterans Supporting Governor Sarah Palin for President in 2012!

Please welcome our newest member, go visit the blog, comment, say welcome... enjoy the photos!

I'm going to add them to all our lists right now, hope you'll add them to your lists.

Since we're talking Vets, I'm gonna give a big shout out and say THANKS to our military. Without you we wouldn't be talking, we wouldn't voting and we wouldn't be the great country we are. We take so much for granted in our lives. We can do that simply because there are those who don't take things for granted. They are led to protect us and to fight for us.

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Little bit of a different subject: I hear Sarah is coming to Georgia! I don't have the details yet, but I'm sure she's coming to help Saxby Chambliss in his race. John McCain has been here, Mike Huckabee, and I understand Mitt Romney and some others are heading our way. Talk about feelin' special! I'll keep you posted.

Vote for Sarah, Times Magazine's Person of the Year

Who Will Be Person of the Year 2008? Barack Obama? Gordon Brown? Michael Phelps?

Click through the pros and cons of our finalists for Person of the Year and vote for the candidates you think are most deserving.

Well at the moment, Sarah Palin has over 6,000 votes and the next person behind her is only 2000 votes and that's Barack Obama. Go to the link below and cast your votes.

Vote a 10 for Sarah Palin and a 1 for all the others if you like.

Remember, Time Magazines person of the year is always interviewed by Barbara Walters on ABC. So that will put Sarah back in the news where she needs to be.

http://www.tlaurl.com/157

(Hi all... I just voted and Sarah has over 11,000 votes now!!! Spread the word, let's keep her up there at the top. The only downside I see is that it's the Times and they won't be able to resist tossing some digs in when they write the story. But the pluses outweigh the negatives I think! - Janet)

Thanks to:
Draft Sarah Palin For President
http://www.draftpalinforpresident.com
for an email letting me know about this one!

ANOTHER member!

We're rockin' and rollin' friends! I really like this new blog, partially because it represents the future. The author of the blog is in college and is a Republican. He sent me a column to add to my news site (www.fayettefrontpage.com), which I intend to do tomorrow. I zapped an email back to him after looking at his blog. He is impressive. I'm going to share his article here (with permission).

I hope you will all go visit his blog and comment! It's really nice when new members hear from the rest of us! It's nice to know you're being read, also, which is why I love the "follow" feature on Blogger. Something all of you may want to do, blogger, wordpress, typepad, etc., is go visit www.Feedburner.com --- you can add all kinds of cool features to your blog, make it more compatible with readers, add a subscription feature for your blog, etc. Free.

In the meantime here's Steven's blog:

The New Republican - http://newrepublican.wordpress.com/

Here's the article:

The New Republican
By Steven Lee

I became the first President of the Law Republicans at the University of Georgia this Fall. My story is unlikely. I was born in Connecticut and raised in New York but now I am a proud Southerner. My parents left South Korea to become Americans almost 30 years ago. My family grew up in a rent-controlled tiny one-bedroom apartment, while my parents took on three jobs at a time to make ends meet.

When I was younger, my parents imposed a strict curfew, clamping down on my whereabouts due to the lack of safety in our crime-ridden neighborhood. The neighborhood we grew up in bustled with immigrant families of different cultures, sending children to school from tiny apartments, trying to live the American Dream. After an exhausting day of work each day, my parents worried and checked up on my schoolwork late in the evenings.

If you have watched those liquid dish soap commercials where a single drop of soap instantly makes the grease scurry to the edges of the sink, you would have found a discomforting similarity to my bathroom wall when it turned from black to white as roaches scurried for places to hide from the light. When I was a child and I went to the bathroom at night, I turned on the bathroom light, quickly turned around and ran into my bed in horror.

More than two years ago, my parents finally scrounged enough money together to buy a home in sunny Georgia. They were fortunate enough to save, buy a small home, and then were lifted out of New York during the housing boom, the way a river floods and lifts the broken in its current.
I believe, one day, I will tell a story about an amazing journey that started in a small humble apartment in New York. In my destitution, I learned the importance of building character, working hard, and being thankful for what I have.

After Election Day, I started writing a blog (http://thenewrepublicans.net) about how the Republican party should “reinvent” itself while staying true to its core convictions. People of all different creeds – Democrat, Independent, Republican and Libertarian – have joined in a thoughtful and engaging discussion on the modern day challenges that America faces now. The forum is connecting people nationally.

From education reform to the economy, each entry invites readers to discuss important issues that will shape our country for generations. If as Americans we start becoming more involved at the grassroots level, we can begin to influence the public debate.

In my forum called New Republican, I recently discussed how the future of America rests on education reform. Only 53% of high school graduates in the US enter college and 35% graduate from college, according to the American Youth Policy Forum. The majority of children around the world are outperforming American children in Math and Science (Center for Public Education). Of all the industrialized countries, only children in the United States are less likely to graduate from high school than their parents were. 17 of the 50 largest cities have graduation rates under 50 percent, with 1.2 million American students dropping out each year.

I respectfully invite you to join in this open-minded discussion. I have been humbled by the interest of so many. The forum received nearly 3,000 hits in the first week, and hundreds of visits per day. With the worst economy since the Great Depression and other challenges that America must deal with now, Martin Luther King Jr.’s words were never truer, “We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.” If we join together, we will confront the modern-day challenges and begin to influence the public debate.

US Rebublican Sarah Palin wooed for $11m book deal

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24661296-2,00.html?from=public_rss
Tony Allen-Mills in New York
The Australian
November 17, 2008 12:01am
New chapter ... publishers are lining up to sign Sarah Palin to a book deal that could earn her a fortune.
SHE failed to save John McCain from presidential election doom, but Sarah Palin, the losing Republican senator's controversial running mate, may yet emerge as an unlikely saviour of the US publishing industry.
Literary agents are queueing to sign Ms Palin to a book deal that could earn her up to $US7 million ($10.8 million), The Australian reports.
With Barack Obama's election victory expected to generate dozens of books from politicians, strategists and journalists - and with another shelfload of memoirs expected from outgoing members of President George W. Bush's...
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24661296-2,00.html?from=public_rss

Hat tip to Jim on TeamSarah 2012 for finding this story and sharing it!

More new members, more new members...

Every day we grow a bit larger...

Today's new members are:

Faultline USA - http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/

Rochester Conservative - http://RochesterConservative.com

I hope you'll add these to your blogs to follow!

Hate to say this again, but just so you know, the stupid blogroll is STILL down. I may have to bite the bullet and pay someone to make a blogroll for us.

The Read My Lipstick Network is on Facebook and MySpace! We sent out an invite to a bunch of you, hopefully all, but there are so many email addresses it's possible we overlooked one or two. If you're on either, please look us up and join. There's a link to Facebook on our main site, www.readmylipsticknetwork.com. I'll add one to MySpace just as soon as I figure out how.

I'm still trying to figure out why we'd want to be on either , but hey, it's too late to back out now. If we're going to take over the Internet for Sarah and conservatives, we gotta do it all... I guess when my clone gets back from vacation I'll have her set up a Yahoo Group for us, too.

Great new site...

I know a lot of you are active on Team Sarah (hope you've joined our group on it). There's another really great ning network set up that is geared specifically to getting Sarah elected in 2012. Its: http://sarahpalin2012.ning.com/

I've set up a group on there, too, and will be active in helping it grow.

I hope you'll go check it out, join, and start working with this active group of individuals who are working night and day to get Sarah into the White House!!!

Obama had over 3 million working for him on the Internet. We need to double that number and then keep on going...