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Poor choice of words, IMHO. He should have said,
“We’re ignoramuses (and evidently mighty slow learners).”

This week the mayor of Houston initiated a great humanitarian
effort to bus the “Superdome people” clear over to Houston’s
Astrodome for temporary shelter. I say they keep
that caravan of busses going for as long as it takes,
and begin evacuation…

Let the Cajun bayou country go back to the gators and
snakes.

jpd

Thank you for all the emails you've continued to send me
about how to help. I've been overwhelmed with the care and
concern shown by my newsletter readers... from all around
the entire globe. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Gary C. Halbert

# 2005 - 09-15-05

From:

North of Jewfish Creek

Dear Friend & Subscriber,

The vast majority of this newsletter is going to be about
"Operation Moneysuck".

Most of you who read this newsletter do so
because you are interested in improving your copywriting
abilities... or... you are interested in starting or enlarging
a direct response business. What I'm going to…

If this newsletter turns out to be a bit
sloppy, please cut me a little slack as Theresa and I are... once again... working under hurricane conditions
courtesy of a bitch named "Rita".

Before I get going on "Operation Moneysuck",
I want to thank all of you who responded to my last few newsletters concerning the
disastrous
circumstances
caused by…

I believe I got exactly two e-mails bitching
about my recommending Jehovah's
Witnesses. Both of those e-mails were from
individuals who peppered their messages with quotes from the
Bible and maintained the Jehovah's Witnesses were nothing
more than a cult and didn't believe in
mainstream religious dogma.

Just in case any of you are confused, I would like to assure you, I, myself am
NOT a Jehovah's Witness.
And quite frankly, to be blunt, I don't give
a rat's ass about their religious beliefs. In fact, I don't
even know what they do believe... and for my money... it makes no
difference whatsoever…

Once, a long time ago, I was with my father
in a rather un-seaworthy boat attempting to navigate a
particularly dangerous part of the ocean. I was very scared.
The boat was in serious danger of
capsizing. Then I remembered something my father taught
me years earlier. He taught me if you are in a boat traveling
across dangerous…

To state the obvious, it
shouldn't matter if the person is Black or White, Catholic
or Protestant, a midget or 7 feet tall, Republican or
Democrat, or what the person believes or thinks about
anything. It shouldn't matter if you love or hate the
person. And it shouldn't even if the person is in favor of an…

All that should matter is, you give the
controls of the boat to the person onboard who is
the most likely person to get you back to port safely.

So, rather than let my pride go
before a fall...

I Gave The Controls Of That Boat

In Those Dangerous Waters

To My Father!

What if you knew of a copywriter who almost
always wrote hugely successful direct mail pieces, space ads
and/or websites for his clients? Would you care if that
copywriter was Black or White, Catholic or Protestant, a
midget or 7 feet tall, Republican or Democrat? Or what his
or her religious beliefs…

I think you wouldn't care about any of that.
I think you would hire the person who was most likely to
write a piece of copy for you which would make you the most money.

I think the same thing is true with about anything else of
importance which needs to get done. If you were suffering
from a…

I could go on and on with illustrations such as
these but, if you haven't gotten the point already, you are
brain dead.

As far as Jehovah's Witnesses are concerned,
they have an impeccable record for helping people who've
been affected by man made and/or natural disasters superior to any other organization of which I have…

But, by God, when it comes to stabilizing
and repairing after a disaster, THEY are the
people who get the job done without stealing any of the
money contributed for that purpose.

I think what I'm going to write now will
probably surprise you. I think nobody in this country should
donate another dime to help the victims of…

As of now, the total amount of money
already been donated or pledged to help those victims is
in the untold billions of dollars. Let me tell
you something about hundreds of billions of dollars. That amount of
money, at least in my opinion, does not exist anywhere on
earth in the control of people who are not outright stealing…

I don't think more money needs to be
contributed to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. What I
think is really needed, is more people with at least half a
brain working on the problems created by the disaster. I
believe $100 in the hands of a capable, intelligent person
will provide more relief for those victims than $10,000…

But, there is a lot of goodness in the
hearts of the people of the world. A lot of us have a
genuine feeling of an overwhelming need to do something to
help those who have suffered from such a disaster. And, I have an idea I would like to throw out to
all of my readers (if for no…

Very recently, I was flying back from a short trip to
Costa Rica on American Airlines Flight 972 and I was sitting
in seat 11D. Sitting next to me in seat 10D was a woman named
Bernadette Lewis. Her husband died of cancer at a very early
age. I learned from talking with her a few interesting
things.

First, her father-in-law was Sinclair Lewis
(now deceased of course), the first American writer to win
the Pulitzer Prize. Bernadette is 77 years old. She
had just recently moved from France to New Orleans. After she got
herself set up in an apartment, she decided to take a trip
to Costa Rica to visit her relatives there.

Her return flight from Costa Rica to New
Orleans was scheduled for the day Katrina hit New Orleans.
Naturally, Bernadette was stuck in Costa Rica and she had
to wait quite some time before she could get another return
flight. But when she made those new return flight
arrangements, it only included her
flying to Miami and then to Tampa…

Bernadette didn't know if her apartment had survived the
hurricane. She was hopeful because it was on the second
floor of her building. She had a son in New Orleans who had
tried to board up his house but was unable to finish the job
and forced to evacuate the area by the New Orleans Police.
If I remember…