tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48883204706057527002024-03-05T13:59:08.457-08:00FANTASY ISLAND PUBLISHINGJDarrollHallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05038021574021930774noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888320470605752700.post-7063471556572022192014-04-11T15:50:00.000-07:002014-04-11T15:50:12.793-07:00Awesome new action adventure thriller and it's FREE<div class="mbs _5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5px;">
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JDarrollHallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05038021574021930774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888320470605752700.post-30838163844012658112013-11-08T17:01:00.000-08:002013-11-08T17:01:08.503-08:00Hot New Bestseller Tiffany Grandstaff<div style="text-align: center;">
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JDarrollHallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05038021574021930774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888320470605752700.post-23930186765619799782013-11-07T08:18:00.000-08:002013-11-07T08:18:01.260-08:00Liar, Liar, Twitter's IPO is on Fire.<div style="text-align: center;">
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Now I know that for the most part, human beings are prone to fibbing from time to time; and I have been guilty of it myself when I was younger and more brazen. However, I think it's bullshit that our self-esteem and value system have been so jacked up that we continually make excuses for our impulses and shortcomings instead of embracing them, facing them, and growing alongside them, as is their purpose I believe. </div>
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Now, that crap just isn't fair to the poor asshole that has to sift through your bullshit to find out who they are dealing with. You should think about leveling the playing field a little, perhaps by telling the truth about yourself, your situation, your morals, and your intentions. You don't have to show all your cards, but everyone at the table needs to know what game they are playing. If you are justified in your actions, then why do you have anything to lie about? And if you have something to lie about, then maybe you're just a fucking cunt who needs to rethink your priorities in life.</div>
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In addition, not being truthful with someone can be likened to giving that person power over you. By lying or withholding information, you are basically telling that person that they are better than you, that you are wrong, that you are afraid of them, and that cannot face any of it. And well, if you <em>are </em>wrong and if you <em>can't</em> face it, then ultimately they <em>are</em> better than you. If you want to know how it feels to be hated, keep lying. Habitual liars aren't very popular folks; and their actions are why the whole of the world would like them to become regular candidates for spontaneous combustion. </div>
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However, I would rather have a scarcity of leaches who suck the marrow out of lies than a plethora of assholes who prefer fiction over truth. In fact, I find that the small amount of people with whom I do associate are just about as cynical and backwards as I am, having been lied to several times themselves. I like it this way just fine; and I am not accepting applications for new, potential dickheads to disappoint me in the end. </div>
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What's more, when you lie to someone you are telling them, and the world, that you suck. If you suck, then you need to fess up to it, get on with your miserable existence, and say you're sorry once in a while. If you don't suck, then stop acting like a dumbass by fibbing. You're making yourself look like an asshole. </div>
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I always liked that old saying, "Liar, Liar, pants on fire;" though I must say that I have always been quite disappointed by the apparently misleading plotline of it. Never once have I seen a person burst into flames because they were a lying bastard. It would come in handy when making friends, dating, negotiating with clients, and shit like that. I mean, I don't have much cash, but I would pay good money to see that just one damn time before I croak.</div>
<br />JDarrollHallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05038021574021930774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888320470605752700.post-29829934316186817052013-11-06T19:16:00.003-08:002013-11-06T19:20:21.903-08:00Brain-Rape-You-Were-Asking-for-it: Tiffany Grandstaff<div class="content" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0.5em 0px 0em 25px;">
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: red;">What’s worse than being a woman in a man’s world? Being a beautiful and smart one, that’s what. Still, twenty-nine is forever; at least it is for Tiffany “Bacon” Grandstaff - writer, author, reporter, model, mother, and teacher. She brings to life some of the hardest lessons and challenges facing Gen Y women and men. This single mother of three sons has encapsulated the reality of a world that is seemingly twirling down the proverbial toilet, all while giving her unique perspective as a modern common Queen (at least in her own castle). From her giving birth, holding down jobs, and the hurdles of the single dating scene, she sure has expert opinions and loves to share them on social media - even if it costs her a job as a local Features Reporter in Middle America. Sit back and enjoy some straight talk from a fish that is too big for her bowl – a woman who sees RED when told to “sit down and be quiet."</span></span><br />
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JDarrollHallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05038021574021930774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4888320470605752700.post-89287791905297078232013-11-04T08:05:00.000-08:002013-11-06T11:54:35.132-08:00What Pisses Me Off? Tiffany Grandstaff<div style="text-align: center;">
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<em>The fact that people are only out for themselves anymore, bunch of self-serving bastards.</em><br />
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Blood, water, it never matters. My biggest plight in life seems to be that I am always a victim of circumstance, losing friends and family left and right for reasons that were never quite clear to me, until today. Luckily, my racing mind gets me out of the jams that are created by my anxious heart.<br />
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On one hand, I have a cousin who just came into my life about a year ago, following a tumultuous divorce with a womanizing drug addict with whom she still wants to be. She never had much to do with me our whole lives; and I almost forgot she existed until she needed someone's coat tails to ride here recently. You see, I found out that her mother sent her to me for what she called "Bitch Lessons," and boy did that girl become my star pupil. Knowing this I did it still, feeling humbled by the mere notion of being needed. I shouldn't have been such a dumbass.<br />
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One the other hand, I have a male friend with whom I'd grown rather close to in the recent months. It was as if he was the male version of myself, or so I thought. Some people are just really good at doing impressions in the mirror - jesters who sneak into my court to perform. After a series of awkward moments, our once spotless friendship became more like something out of horror movie and less like something out of a comedy. I plan to have the last laugh.<br />
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Instead of the emotionally closed-off bastard humbling himself to say that he was sorry after running his mouth, or instead of relinquishing the fact that he had developed feelings for me during our friendship, he decided to psychoanalyze me into the ground, to elevate himself above that pesky love thing. Subtle Facebook jabs via his status, and cloaked attempts to start the argument again would follow, but by the time he reappeared on my radar, I was so over the bullshit that I couldn't care any less if I had either of those bitches in my life or not. I figure 29 years without them, what's 29 more?<br />
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Meanwhile, I just finished writing my first book. I'm so exited about it but I have nowhere to put my energy except for into this blog. Neither of my parents seem to give a fuck about what their daughter is doing - I go months without hearing from them although I live 5 minutes from my mother and 30 minutes from my dad. They both regularly see my other siblings though.<br />
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And what about the special man in my life, you ask? Well, he snoozes more than a newborn kitten, treats me like a queen when he is awake, and never wants to fuck me . . . ever, unless of course I come on to him. It's like he's afraid of the pussy or something; and I am not okay with chasing down the dick. Can't I get a man who knows how to sweep a woman off her feet, but then also knows how to make her toes curl? Is that too much to fucking ask for Christ's sakes?</div>
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So here I sit, once the host of a weekly get-together, empty handed, looking for a new place to start, while wondering if I even want to start at all. I suppose one of my biggest problems in life is that I give a shit when I know better; and that pisses me off to no end. When I don't care, everything falls apart. When I do care it still falls apart, only insult gets added to the inevitable injury. It's enough to make a person question the value of their very existence.</div>
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That pisses me off too - that someone, anyone, can have that kind of effect on what I had previously assumed to be a relatively strong psyche. Letting someone get to you because they are an incomplete person is like cutting off a chunk of your life and handing it to them to burn. They can't even manage their own shit; don't let them touch yours.<br />
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Damn this big, hopeful heart of mine; and damn those dickheads for being such cunts with it. I tell myself I'll never do it again: I say "this is the year I will stop giving a damn about . . ." But the denial tastes so delicious that I seem to devour it at every turn. It's either that or I'm fucking insane. But aren't we all insane just a little? </div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-size: x-small; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">I recently got hired as a <span style="color: #20124d;">Features Reporter</span> via an online search for writers done by editor of The Kokomo Herald, only to be less-than-professionally fired a month later for what I can only assume is because of my Facebook activity. It’s my mistake for adding my assumed “bosses” to my page, I suppose. Unfortunately, good writing and punctual service is not favored over less scrupulous writers who are neither willing nor able to push the proverbial envelope. In fact, the shoddy writing and careless undertaking of the other writers is precisely why I was told I was needed. I wonder if the other staff members know what is being said behind their backs.</span></span></div>
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The New Guilt band would like to raise funds and awareness of the tragedy which struck Moore Oklahoma on May 20th 2013. Our goal is to raise money for the Red Cross Moore OK disaster relief fund.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 12px;"> Has over 3000 members, and also boasts a ranking of 200<sup>th</sup></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 12px;">in the nation; a feat worthy of an honorable mention.</span></div>
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Austin Author/Songwriter Marilyn Rucker</div>
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Lakeline Barnes and Noble; April 27, 2013 Noon til 2 p.m.</div>
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Sax and the Suburb is "a quirky tale of murder, love gone wrong, and the hope of love going right."
Local Austin Texas author and songwriter Marilyn Rucker will be holding a release party for her new mystery novel, Sax and the Suburb, at the Barnes and Noble at the Homestead Shopping Center at Lakeline Crossing, 14010 US Hwy. 183 Austin, TX 78717. On April 27th from noon till two p.m. To reserve your copy call (512) 249-5644.</div>
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The festivities will continue later that same evening (April 27th) at Patsy’s Cowgirl Café at 5001 E Ben White Blvd from 7-9 p.m. as Marilyn plays with The Studebakers band and read excerpts from the humorous and thrilling mystery novel.
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Rucker has been writing songs in the Austin area for years. She’s been showing them off playing the piano and singing with The Therapy Sisters, Mr. Fabulous and Casino Royale, Maryann Price, and most recently with The Studebakers. Sax and the Suburb is her first published novel.
In Sax and the Suburb , law school grad Miranda Beeling is trying to recover from the recent death of her mother and the betrayal of her fiancé (an aspiring bigamist). She's retreated back to her childhood home, trying to sort through her clutterholic father’s hoards of junk, despite his determined opposition. (Her mother's ghost, who appears to her in dreams and is inclined to nag, insists she keep trying.) Miranda's only enjoyable social activity is playing saxophone in the local community band. Her enjoyment ends when trombonist David Hu is killed, and bassoonist Louisa Parkinson, Miranda's best friend, is first accused of the murder, then attacked herself. Motivated by concern for her friends and an inescapable feeling that she might be next on the victim list, Miranda decides to investigate the case.
Sax and the Suburb has won both an IndieBrag Award and an Awesome Indies Award for excellence in writing. The book also received praise from the editors at “A Woman’s Write” as "a quirky tale of murder, love gone wrong, and the hope of love going right."</div>
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I'm at Writing on the Wall today talking about Little White Lies. The lovely Rachel Schieffelbein noticed the release of my newest book in the Persephone Campbell Series, Losing Hope and invited me to do a guest post
Please stop by, say hello and if you haven't had a chance to read Losing Beauty my publisher is offering free downloads today only on Amazon. If you read it and like it, now you don't have to wait for the sequel because it's finally available...ahem...I know it was a long wait! But here's hoping you think the wait was worthwhile.
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The right wing is totally out of control with their hate speech and has the nut jobs on killing sprees. How many more Innocent American citizens have to be maimed or killed before we take this zealot right wing hate speech off our public airwaves?
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RUSH: They're acting like I'm some sort of conspiracy creep. But I outed 'em. I have shined the light of truth, as it were.
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I decided to call in the big guns, or more precisely the 'pretend I'm on Prozac' approach where (as I imagine it) problems, big and small, are no problem at all.<br />The girls arrived and crowded around my kitchen table to prepare their shopping lists. When I told them they'd be doing their shopping by themselves they had lots of questions:<br /><br />"Can we stop and get the free cookie?"<br /><br />"Should we buy organic ingredients?"<br /><br />"Do we each get our own shopping cart?"<br /><br />My answer in Prozac-inspired style: "Good questions! I think you should come to your own consensus." A consensus was quickly reached about the free cookie (no surprises there) but there was a little more discussion about the second two issues.<br /><br />At the grocery store, my fellow sister leader and I had the pleasure of watching the girls trail up and down the aisles from the front of the store. It was surprisingly amusing to watch them search for taco seasoning in the cookie aisle. 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The jury is still out on whether it was effective.<br /><br />My husband ventured in from outside where he was hanging Christmas lights just in time to witness one Girl Scout wielding my Sabatier cleaver over the head of another Girl Scout.<br /><br />"Umm, honey, do you think they should use those knives?!?"<br /><br />I could see the panic in his eyes but I held on tight to my pretend Prozac zen. "Girls, remember, those knives can cut through bone," I said and calmly took a sip of tea.<br /><br />After several hours we all sat down, happily unmaimed, to a delicious lunch of tacos, cornbread and chocolate pudding cake. We were a little behind schedule, but hey, timing IS one of the hardest things to get right in cooking. As for me, dare I say it? I had FUN! Smile and the world smiles with you. Fake it 'til you make it. 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The astrologers of the day gave birth to our own wonder at the heavens and the science of astronomy. In the movements of the stars, they noticed that some were fixed while some moved (planets).<br />In those days, *laughing* unlike ours, there was much complaint in other cultures about the independence of Egyptian women. That still holds today, as some of the most notable of the protesters are Egyptian women. Unlike so many other cultures, in almost all of their art, husbands and wives are pictured together, and ancient documents give testament to their devotion to each other. In most cases, women could hold any occupation they wished, including serving in the army. While not as 'liberal' as we are, they didn't need to be convinced of the value of women in society, it was simply accepted.<br />There are those who are afraid Egypt and the others will fall under the sway of the militants, but I remember how they stood up first to Mubarak, Gaddafi, etc., and now to the army. 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The first key to that is to understand how stocks, markets, and currencies all work together to make our system work. That book went on to become a #1 bestseller for 61 weeks on Amazon, and still is #22 bestseller today. It was called “Double Down Bounce” and became the fastest selling non fiction e-book in Amazon history.<br />The fact that Warren Buffett spoke about and put the book on his list of intelligent investor club ‘must reads’ did not hurt the effort whatsoever. My market predictions, successful tactics and strategies have worked for thousands of investors. My bonafide established, let’s get serious for a minute.<br />As I sit her watching the east Asian markets begin to come alive, (12:00am est Friday) I wonder if this is the beginning of another “Black Friday?” They all somewhat sneak up on us, but this one is very predictable and totally made up for political gain. Everyone with any insight knows there is no debt crisis; one small faction in the GOP has turned this into a crisis by not agreeing to pay our old bills and debt. None of this is about future spending or deficits, it is about paying for what we have already spent in the past. Bills that the Bush and the Republicans ran up for 2 wars, I might add.<br />How did we get here in just one short decade?<br />In 2000, the change of guard left a huge budget surplus to the new president, George W. Bush. The budget surplus did not wipe out the old debt of the country under Bush; Ronald Reagan had left us deeply in debt. Historic debt! The debt limit rose 18 times with no calamity under Reagan to reach historic trillions of total debt. Bush decided that we should not run a surplus and give big tax breaks to the wealthy, (trickle down) rather than pay down Reagan’s accumulated debt. Keep in mind democrats had retired a great deal of that huge debt and created a budget surplus under Clinton.<br />The Bush administration decided to do something unique; they created something called off budget accounts. They fought two wars and gave trillions in tax carve outs to major corporations in tax loopholes or corporate welfare. All off budget and not accounted for, because it was financed in debt bonds, treasury notes sold to China, the oil sheiks and despots around the world. Bush left office with a debt trajectory heading to the very sky and crashed the entire economy in the process. Nice cow-pattie to leave the new guy to step into.<br />The real deal:<br />Bush knew from the 2006 elections that they had lost the American voters and were going to lose big, all of it. Tactic, spend all the money and blame it on the new guy. Leave him no way out but to spend big to even spark this economy back to life. Now blame him for all the past and future spending or let the economy just collapse and crash.<br />The now deal:<br />The Tea Party & ultimately the Republican plan: Now debt and deficits suddenly begin to matter. Let’s implode the economy now that is in slowly taking a full breath and baby steps toward recovery. Let’s do something we have never done before, take the entire faith of our standing into question and have a total default of America’s credit standing. How much can we crush the American people before they actually wake up? Are you awake yet? Do you understand what is happening, this is a made up crisis. Past spending has nothing to do with future budgeting.<br />The money for two un-funded wars, a decade of tax cuts for the rich and wealthy, and a give away to the special interest medical and insurance lobbies has left us here in debt. We can in no way deal with this until we understand how and who brought us to this dance in hell. Just because the new boogeyman has a new name does not mean he is different. The tea-party is the crazy wing of the GOP, the clowns out of the closet to disrupt the entire class. And in the end, we are all left watching and blaming the wrong issue.<br />The Tea party is the diversion, it is a GOP shield for blame, but they all have an “R” by their names. This is slight of hand and Three Card Monte at its very best. This is a tactic used throughout history to overcome a losing strategy. Bring in a ringer to absorb the heat of battle as to make you look like part of the peace process. The GOP war on the middle class is in full swing and raging onward. The GOP created this massive debt and now they want the middle class and lower to pay it all off while the rich get off scot-free. As a wise man once said, follow the money trail. Who is funding this and what do they have to gain. Who is the real loser once the chips are all cashed in? My book will explain all of it and I will give it to you for less than a buck at the end of this. The Republicans claim that lower taxes on the upper tier will create jobs. If that is true, WHY aren’t there more jobs? The rich already have these tax breaks but the fact of the matter is they are NOT creating jobs nor have they since they were given these breaks! <br />Where’s the beef?<br />Black Friday, Black Monday, Black Tuesday and flash crash: <br />All major crashes fall into this venue, except the flash crash that I predicted in 2010 and spoke about on CNN in May of that year. I coined the phrase “Flash Crash” live on the Rick Sanchez show on CNN May 6th of 2010. I cannot say this will be a flash crash; it may be a full cascade, resulting in a total market crash. A total market crash results when all paper issuances (stocks, bonds and paper assets) decrease in value across the board, “hedging”. This is a Bear run to capital assets or convertible currencies, “CASH”. When paper becomes risky everyone converts to cash, and for now, cash, good cash is US dollars.<br />If stocks and bond begin to collapse the markets will go for US dollars, there are only so many dollars and the more they are wanted the more they are worth. Stocks and bonds are just a sheet of paper or a promise of a promise. US dollars are Cash. When the stock market crashes, US dollars go up in value. When bonds deflate, the US dollar surges or goes up in value. US dollars are real currency, stocks, bonds and other structural notes are just paper. Those types of investments rise and fall based on the demand for them. If all demand is gone, they are in the end just a piece of paper.<br />This is a stop gap tactic, not a strategy. In the stock market, this is called a “stop loss” or barricade. Protection of assets from instrumental devaluation and conversion is a must in this time of chaos. Conversion occurs when a high value yesterday becomes a lower value today. This is called loss of ACV (actual cash value) or deflation of your net worth. Anyone who has read my book knows this is a time to “park it!” I would not leave a single asset in paper at this time because cash will increase in value and has.<br />The fish tank (from my book) view of markets.<br />All markets are a big tank of cash or investments. Most never ripple or ever see a wave; they wax and wane up and down slightly (long view investments) depending on market conditions and performance. If the market gets jittery and suddenly bolts, the tank has sprung a leak, computer programs will kick in to gobble up those falling shares at good prices. Once the owners of those computers see it is not a glitch, and begin to sell off in mass, the cascade has begun. Saving your investments from this is likened to catching a falling knife barehanded and blindfolded. It is far too late for you and your money. But you don’t have money; you have paper chits or shares.<br />When do I sell?<br />Last week is always my answer, and you are not selling. This is an investment readjustment to a safer haven. Stay in stocks while stocks are going up, when they are losing, cash goes up in value so go to cash, park it. Cash can buy things, paper stock chits or bonds can’t buy anything. They only have a value judged by the next buyer in the asset food chain. That food chain is ‘buy low and sell high.’ I coined an investment rule, “buy when everyone is selling, sell when everyone is buying!” Sounds better than buy low - sell high and makes a lot more sense. Sell when demand is high, buy when demand is low. Basically, this is gravity of demand in a free market economy.<br />Black market Friday: Three days of loss leading into an uncertain and unstable futures market. The futures market is unstable! A sudden increase rush into actuals (real things) and cash (dollars). We are no longer waxing and waning, the asset tank has a leak and may break open and deluge your assets into the open sewer for decades to come. Do I trust this divided government to cure this nightmare? That is the question to ask yourself? I say “Park it”. 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