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Prospective Free State Wyoming (FSW) Members and Interested Parties => Prospective Free State Wyoming (FSW) Members and Interested Parties => Topic started by: SilenceDoGood on July 11, 2007, 10:16:38 PM
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Hi everyone, just moved from Wisconsin about a month ago for similar reasons as listed in the FSW site (which I didn't know existed until today). I have two little boys who wonder why we didn't move here sooner. Things have been pretty good so far, but I'm hitting a brick wall when it comes to finding good work in my field of interest, which, unfortunately, isn't restaurants or the oil business, lol.
I like my privacy and we're looking to buy a house in rural Casper within the next year. Nice to know there are others who like their freedom and space, too, and I can't wait to meet some of you who are local! Can't wait to get involved!
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Cool! There's quite a bit of folks in the Casper area so you'll have lots of contacts to work with.
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Dear Silence,
Hi everyone, just moved from Wisconsin about a month ago
My friend John (the van crasher) in Gillette is also from Wisconsin.
Things have been pretty good so far, but I'm hitting a brick wall when it comes to finding good work in my field of interest,
Okay! What is your field of interest? You have dozens of friends eager to help.
Regards,
Jim
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I noticed several Wisconsin license plates within the first few days of living here, and took note of a bumper sticker I keep seeing: "My Wyoming has an East Infection", hillarious!
I have lots of office experience, which I enjoyed, and I majored in history at college and love doing research, archiving and writing. I was a newspaper reporter for three years, but got tired of my editor re- writing or omitting sections of stories, which went far beyond her duties of pagination and editing for grammar, as well as the lack of journalist ethics practiced by that corporate newspaper.
Right now I'm stuck in restaurant work; while my grandparents' generation would have considered this an "opportunity", to me it's both amusing and frusterating. My 18 year- old manager never graduated from high school and has no idea where Wisconsin is. ???
Thanks everyone for the open arms.
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Welcome! Look here for some openings at the Casper-Star: http://www.casperstartribune.net/hr/employment/
They seem to have an excellent newspaper, and even ran a very positive article about FSW. You might check them out and see if you can improve your circumstances.
Good luck!
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Hi MamaLiberty,
I appreciate the info. But I will never work for a corporately- owned (however small) paper again. Too many chiefs, yet not enough vigilance over ethics codes. Too much interest in the bottom line.
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Hmmm. MamaLiberty, do you remember a few months ago when we were upset about some very nasty articles and editorial-like articles in the Sundance Times?
Do you remember how we discussed planning a new newspaper for the region? One with an honest editorial policy. One that might, even, say, keep editorializing to, oh, say, the editorial page?
And how we were concerned that you didn't have any time to do the work of developing a plan for this new newspaper, but would be able to work for it in an editorial capacity, for pay, once it was ready to go? Maybe I'm forgetting some of it.
But, doesn't it strike you as excellent that here is this Silence Do Good who has actual experience as a reporter, and is looking for work? Might be worth finding that thread? Where did we put it?
Regards,
Jim
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Might be worth finding that thread? Where did we put it
http://www.fundamentalsoffreedom.com/fswforum//index.php?topic=3339.0
http://www.fundamentalsoffreedom.com/fswforum//index.php?topic=2232.0
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Works for me, Jim. If he wants to take the point on the FSW paper, I'd be cheering all the way. But he said he needed a "job" and I assume he needs to make a living first. Any new business is going to do good to break even in the beginning, especially one like a radical newspaper... so it would seem good to have another source of income at least for a while.
I can certainly understand why someone would not want to work for a "mainstream media" company, though I'm not sure if the Casper Star quite fits there... I have no intention of ever returning to the Medicare nightmare of established "nursing."
I'm very willing to talk to anyone who wants to help with this project. The possibilities are almost endless and we have the talent already in place to make it work. We've got plenty of indians... just need a "chief" to take the ball and run with it.
Pardon the horrible mix of metaphors... LOL
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Howdy Silence, welcome here. Miles
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Good morning all!
Thanks Miles.
And for the record, I am a "she", lol (do I write like a man??!!). While Silence Dogood was the pseudonym used by Benjamin Franklin, I twisted it a bit and am indeed a woman.
I do have steady employment, and being a single parent, don't have loads of free time, but would be TICKLED and honored to be a part of a serious project geared towards producing some type of FSW publication, and would be very willing to do any such work for free until (or if) the publication reaches any significant and steady subscription base. Newspaper work has been romanticized quite efficiently by Hollywood, but there can be a lot of busy and boring work associated with such a project, so anyone involved needs to be committed to the outcome. Of course, I'm getting ahead of myself here with details, but I wanted to put that out there.
MamaLiberty, I must respectfully disagree with you, as I do believe Lee Enterprises, which owns the Star- Tribune, is the mainstream media in this area of this country. I believe they do produce a great variety of personal and community- based stories than many other corporations of their size, but any media organization whose success depends on total lack of competition has incredible potential to become a danger to free thought.
But I suppose this train of thought might be better suited to fall under a different topic, lol....
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One thing working over in our OH county..."FREE" weekly paper paid strictly by advertising...underbid current ad rates through low overhead AND increase circulation through "FREE" distribution.
Give the people what they want, focus local news, splash in major national spots ADD LOTS of local special interest OR helpful how-to's suggested (perhaps even written) by locals...ranching, fishing, gardening, hunting, etc.
I'd think the biggest issue would be getting the ball rolling, finding an inexpensive publisher....focus the Gillette market to build the base and expand.
Hmmmm...sounds like a business model developing...
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You guys and gals need to get with Paul B also. He's pursuing the online end of this type of thing. Might be best to get those two projects (online and print) co-ordinated and going in the same direction.
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Excellent ideas. I believe online and print publications should accompany and compliment another without being identical. With regards to deciding logistics, layout and revenue, perhaps we ought to coordinate a pot- luck get- together (or chat- meeting of some sort) where all interested parties can attend to voice their ideas and opinions. We'll need people truly familiar with the following areas: business managment, advertising/ marketing, publishing, web design/ IT, and writing/ research. We'll need three reporters atleast to cover the basics; sports, local events/ schools and nation- wide events, and given the nature of FSW, the two latter should incorporate American historiography into each piece.
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Welcome to FSW from another cheesehead! I grew up a Packer-backer (back in the Lombardi days), then turned into a Quacker-backer (University of Oregon Ducks). :)
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Thanks, Paul! Though I've forgotten most of the names, the 1967 Packer starting lineup was kind of required learning as I was growing up. My father placed Lombardi in the same category as President Reagan and Jesus Christ. My kids were put on the waiting list for season tickets the day they were born; they should receive them in about 30 years.
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Hello there, haven't had a chance to welcome you so - Welcome!
I was just reading an article and there was a quote from someone with the same name "Silencedogood" from another online forum/discussion group.
Anyway, glad you found your way here, congrats on your move to Wy.
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Welcome Ms Silence
from a flatlander >:D
Devildog
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Here is the current thread on the libertarian paper discussion: http://www.fundamentalsoffreedom.com/fswforum//index.php?topic=4582.0
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Thanks, everyone.
Jen, all this talk of starting a newspaper/ newsletter reminded me of something I did in high school. When the whole Elian Gonzalez story broke, some friends and I (who deemed ourselves Revolutionaries) put together a newsletter, Common Sense. We included stats regarding how many members of Congress had been convicted of crimes, refreshers on the 1st and 2nd amendments, and some current news, including refreshers on Waco and Ruby Ridge.
Our lack of originality not-with-standing, we spray painted a white bedsheet that read "Ruby Ridge... Waco... Elian Gonzalez... Who's Next?" and hung it on the college campus in town.
We expected our message to hit people so hard. But no one ran screaming in the night, no one hit the streets with torches and pitchforks, no reaction whatsoever. The banner had been removed in the night, and nothing was ever said about it.?
We were crushed. Our newsletter lasted one issue, and everyone else in the group decided to rearrange their heirarchy of needs; drinking and getting laid we on the list. Changing the world wasn't.
I still think words and ideas can change this world, but I have to say it was a great experience. Nobody got hurt, we broke no laws (though it felt like it at the time!), and I think it separated those of us who were serious about it from those who weren't, under the best of circumstances.
Just a little story I wanted to share.
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Interesting story Silence. I too set out to save the world, and found the world does not want to be saved. If you think about it, that's not such a bad thing after all, because there are an awful lot of world-savers out there, including such as gun prohibitionists, anti-smokers and what-not.
I've always been comforted by Nock's essay, Isaiah's Job (http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/nock3b.html). It's a help.
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Paul,
Thanks for your reference to "Isaiah's Job"
I had not read that before, and there IS some comfort in those words of wisdom.
It was a pleasure to meet you at the Jam, and it is a pleasure to read your oftentimes
profound observations in these threads.
John
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I've always been comforted by Nock's essay, Isaiah's Job (http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/nock3b.html). It's a help.
Yes, that's a great essay. Truly a classic. It ought to be a featured editorial in the first issue of the newspaper.
I also like SilenceDoGood's newsletter name, "Common Sense." Some of you recall that Tom Paine wrote an essay by that name, with some excellent words. He also wrote a series of essays called "The American Crisis." I wonder if these ideas might be combined somehow?
My thought is a newspaper entitled "The Wyoming Crisis" with a subtitle, "Common Sense for the Remnant."
But, I guess I should post this idea on the newspaper thread.