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January 15, 2008
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE
FLIPSIDE CREW!! We are praying 2008 is
the best year ever for you and your family, and the best year for our nation
since 1985!
TOPICS INCLUDED IN THIS NEWSLETTER ARE:
(click on link below to go to a topic in the newsletter)
FLIPSIDE Show Is Being
Syndicated!
50,000 watt KAAY,
Little Rock, to carry the FLIPSIDE.
Robin is Don’s new sidekick
on the show.
There are four ways you can
hear The FLIPSIDE Show on Rightalk Radio.
Ways You Can
Help The Flipside Accomplish These Goals: Spread the word, get involved in our
shows, promote us to your local station or put them in contact with us, have
Don speak to your group, volunteer for our voter education programs.
Put us in contact with
potential advertisers and sponsors who believe in the greatness of America.
Help Us Financially To Cover Our
Costs. We take no salary for
ourselves, but to step through these doors to defend America and the Christian
faith, we need $2,500 for immediate equipment costs and $1,500/month operating
expenses for six months. By then,
revenues should cover all our expenses.
Remove Self From Or Add Others To
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I. GREAT NEWS FOR
FLIPSIDE TALK SHOW AS WE BROADEN OUR REACH!
We have been busy at the FLIPSIDE Show since joining Rightalk Radio
where we have been airing at www.rightalk.com
on Mondays, 2-4 p.m. (Eastern). So much
has been going on for the past 18 months that we have been negligent in
communicating with all of you fans of the show and friends and family of Don
and Rhonda Crawford. But as we expected
when we moved to Rightalk, there now are a lot of exciting and significant
developments that are occurring in the next few weeks that we want you to know
about.
Due to these developments, this newsletter is now going to be a
regular, semi-monthly (at least), message to those of you who would like to
receive it.
A. The FLIPSIDE Show is being syndicated by
Rightalk Radio to radio stations everywhere—along with four
other Rightalk programs . The FLIPSIDE is NOW free-to-air to stations in any market! If you know a station in your area that you would
like to carry the FLIPSIDE, call the station program director and tell them about
the FLIPSIDE. Have them first visit this link and then call 1-800-377-3695. If you can't
get the station management on the phone, email them a message with this link: http://www.rightalk.com/fta.php,
or you can call Don to give him info
about your local station at 1-888-TALK-1776.
One possible result of the
syndication of the FLIPSIDE is that it will begin to air daily on Rightalk Radio. When and whether this occurs depends on a few variables in the next
few months.
The
50,000 watt KAAY radio, 1090 AM, in Little Rock,
Arkansas, is the most powerful station thus far to
pick up the FLIPSIDE Talk Show! At the very least KAAY is one of the most
powerful Christian radio stations in America with their signal reaching eight
states and the Yucatan peninsular including the cities of Chicago, Minneapolis,
St. Louis, Kansas City, Memphis, Shreveport, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans. KAAY will carry the FLIPSIDE on Saturdays,
3-5 p.m. (Central), beginning Saturday, February 2!
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B. The first radio talk show ever carried by Armed
Forces Radio (AFRTS), Don Crawford’s CHRISTIAN ENCOUNTER
Talk Show, is being produced again and will also be carried by KAAY on Sundays, 6-7 p.m. (Central)
and will be made available to other stations as well. Christian Encounter defends |
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the intellectual basis for the Judeo-Christian faith, affirming
that “faith is not gullibility” and
that “you don’t have to put your brain on
a shelf to be a Christian!”
On the show, Don and the audience ask questions of world class
scholars in the sciences, archaeology, history, philosophy, textual
criticism, and ethics about the relationship of the Christian faith to their
academic disciplines. This show was
commended by AFRTS to congress and won recognition from
the U.S. Department of Defense for its service to the U.S. Armed Forces.
Don is talking with Armed Forces Radio about
their again carrying CHRISTIAN ENCOUNTER to their world-wide audience
of 40+ million listeners
(2 ½ million U.S. military and State Department personnel and 40+ million
indigenous listeners in the 70 nations of the AFRTS outlets). At the time Don quit doing Christian
Encounter for AFRTS, they indicated they would gladly pick it up if he ever
again produced the show. We ask your
prayers that AFRTS now will choose to do so.
Christian Encounter begins airing on KAAY on Sunday, February 3. You
can call the live show toll free at 1-877-TALK-1776 (1-877-825-5177).
C. During both the FLIPSIDE and CHRISTIAN
ENCOUNTER shows you can communicate with Don via email and yahoo IM as well as by
phone. Add Don to your IM contact
list. Don’s ID at yahoo IM is “flipsidedon”. Or email him at don@flipsideshow.com .
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D.
Robin is Don’s new sidekick on the show. Listeners
who heard the FLIPSIDE for years on KJCE, 1370 AM, in Austin, may recognize
that name, Robin. Robin was the call screener for the show for
some time who with her fun,“bubbly”
personality generated many calls to the show.
She is the devoted mother of a beautiful eight-year-old daughter and is
a passionate defender of the founding values that have made America
great. She is a native of Atlanta and
long-time resident of Austin, TX. Her
email is robin@flipsideshow.com. We are thrilled to have her join Don on the
air each week. |
Don’s
sidekick, Robin, on air poking fun at one of Don’s ideas, thus casting doubts
re her sanity. |
E. Some of you have asked how to hear The
FLIPSIDE on Rightalk Radio. There are four ways one can do so:
(1) listen live on Mondays, 2-4 p.m.
(Eastern) at www.rightalk.com by clicking on the channel button with the
FLIPSIDE logo on it. During the second hour, two of the channel buttons will
have the FLIPSIDE logo on them—the one to the right is a replay of the 1st
hour of the show, and the one to the left is the live play of the show’s second
hour.
(2) both hours of the show will replay for
a full 24 hours after the live show.
Just click on the channel buttons that have the Flipside logo on
them.
(3) For IPOD downloads, go to http://www.rightalk.com/podcasting.php .
On the line for the FLIPSIDE Talk Show (currently the top show listed on
that page), click on the “XML” button, and follow the directions to set up IPOD
downloads of each week’s FLIPSIDE Show to your IPOD or computer.
(4) To manually download a program, go to http://rightalk.listenz.com/. The shows are listed by date and initials for
the show (yymmdd-FS.mp3). For instance,
the Christmas Eve show is listed as 071224-FS.mp3 for the 1st hour,
and 071224-FS2.mp3 for the 2nd hour.
Just search for the date of the show using this format, and then double
click on the show you want to download.
If you have questions about any of this, please feel to email us
with your question.
F. Join and participate
on the FLIPSIDE Show’s two blogs,
or write articles for this newsletter and the blogs: http://blog.flipsideshow.com/ and www.flipsideshow.wordpress.com. We welcome your participation and
reactions. We have news-driven-entries
every day on the hottest issues of the day.
And if you would like to make original entries to the blogs, write don@flipsideshow.com and tell him a
few sentences about yourself and the kinds of things you are interested in
writing about, and go to www.flipsideshow.wordpress.com. With Don’s approval, you will be added to the
list of people that can make original entries on the www.flipsideshow.wordpress.com blog. Submit
articles for this newsletter to Don.
II.
The 2008 Election Is A Battle For America’s
Continued Security, Freedom, And Prosperity, And Two Programs To Make A
Difference.
The preservation of America’s
revolutionary form of government of, for, and by the people—and the level of
freedom, security, and prosperity unique in the history of the world that is provided
by this self-government—is the only reason we do the FLIPSIDE Show. We love this nation and the people of the
earth who desperately need this force for freedom and security in the world not
only to survive, but moreover to spread to other nations. This is why we spend far more producing the
show than anything we ever earn from it.
However, this and the next few national
elections are so crucial for the America that we will bequeath to our children
and grandchildren that we at the FLIPSIDE want to do more than the show itself
to try to make a difference.
A. We must counter and refute the anti-rational,
anti-reality PC and post-modernist indoctrination of immigrants, the poor. and
minority communities in this nation
that is being waged by Marxists, totalitarian, elitist “globalists”,
and the “necessary fools” who serve as their lackeys in the political,
educational, and media worlds.
This is why the FLIPSIDE is developing several educational programs
aimed at educating the least privileged members of our society concerning the
reasons for America’s greatness and the realities that they must align
themselves with if they would be able to participate in that greatness. To read Don’s entire explanation of the need
for these programs, go to his article on
this topic.
B.
The
FLIPSIDE is developing two initial programs, with others to follow, to educate
those on the bottom social and economic rung of our society and to expose
them to the opportunities available to them in America, if only the America we
know is preserved:
(1) Join
our “Immigrant, Minority, and Poor Reality-Orienting Voter Education” (IMPROVE)
program. We want volunteers in every county/parish
in America to head up finding and organizing local volunteers to pass our four-page
flyers, IMPROVE USA, that educate citizens about all ten issues listed above
(under “A”) at polling place in each national and state primary and general
election (beginning this February) and at every post-office from mid-afternoon
to closing each April 15.
On January 21, the IMPROVE USA four-page
flyers (word document) can be accessed by volunteers on our website (www.flipsideshow.com, and later at www.ImproveUSA.org and www.ImproveUSA.us) or emailed to those of
you who request
them. You can print them for
distribution in your county, or you can email them to others. Please, just use them.
If you would like to be the contact
person listed on the flyer as the volunteer for your major city, or for your
county, that recipients in your area can contact for more info, please notify
Don with some information about yourself and your political background.
(2) LET’S
SPEAK AMERICAN is a program the FLIPSIDE is developing in which Hispanic
immigrants will be taught conversational English by meeting one-on-one with volunteers
who will help them learn attain better English fluency by discussing together
the values that have made America such a great beacon of freedom, security, and
prosperity in the history of nations.
This program is modeled after the
Christian missions’ Let’s Talk program.
Lets’ Speak American is for Hispanic immigrants who know some rudimentary
English, but who are very weak in conversational English skills. Therefore, volunteers will NOT need to know
Spanish, but will need a great deal of patience and compassion.
A word about illegal immigration in regard
to this program. As most
listeners to the FLIPSIDE already know, this program in no way implies that we
approve of illegal immigration. For a
variety of reasons having to do with love, compassion, respect for the law,
justice for those who are waiting in line legally, the preservation of American
values, and with national security for all our people of all ethnicities, we
have made
it clear that we are for completely closing down our borders to illegal immigration, severe punishment
for knowing employers of illegals, removal of all
foreign aid for nations that assist and encourage illegal immigration,
incarceration for repeat illegals, and removal of
federal highway and education dollars from “sanctuary cities” who do not
enforce immigration laws.
However, the greatest unabated flood of
immigrants that has ever occurred in our history, whether by the entire number
or as a percentage of our population, has been the Hispanic immigration of the
last 50+ years. If we are to retain the
values that make America the beacon of freedom to the world, we must teach
these values to our immigrants. For
regardless of the outcome on amnesty, our Hispanic population and their beliefs
will have a great impact on what kind of America we will become.
To this end, the Flipside is in the
process of forming a 501(c)(3) educational incorporation and has already
obtained ownership of the following web domains for this purpose, which are now
under development: www.LetsSpeakAmerican.com, www.HablemosDeAmerica.com, www.LetsTalkAmerican.org, www.LetsTalkAmerican.us, and www.LetsTalkAmerica.us
Ways You Can Help: If
you are interested in volunteering at an organizational level in your state, or
as a one-on one worker, for the Lets Speak American, please let us add you to our
mailing list of those to keep informed about developments in this program. Or if you can help as a translator, also contact
us. If you know an attorney who
would volunteer his services in this incorporation process, please contact us
at attorney.
(3) In the next year, the FLIPSIDE will be endeavoring
to develop a program and recruiting volunteers to build homes and communities
for impoverished Hispanic families in “barrios” or “colonias”
along the Mexican border. This program would include not only safe
housing, but training in free economics and help in developing entrepreneurial
businesses.
III. Ways You Can Help The Flipside Accomplish
These Goals. We
can’t do any of this without the help of our fans, friends, and loved
ones. Here are things you can do.
A. Spread the word about our shows, their
locations and times to your family and friends.
Forward this E-Newsletter to your mailing list.
B. Get Involved with our shows. Call in live to the shows.
Make entries on our blogs. Send articles for this newsletter. And call in live to The FLIPSIDE and to
CHRISTIAN ENCOUNTER.
C. Contact your local station about the
availability of The FLIPSIDE, or get contact info about your
local station to Don.
D. Have Don speak to your church, club, or
association. Don is an award winning speaker who motivates,
inspires, and educates his audiences. See
his awards
and letters of commendation.
Don would love to talk with your group about any number of topics
including:
1. How conservatives must
and can give winning speeches.
2. Why and how conservatives
need to educate disenfranchised immigrants, minorities, and the poor. The FLIPSIDE’S
“Immigration, Minority, and Poor Reality Orienting Voter Education” (IMPROVE)
program to distribute educational flyers during the primaries, general
elections, on on April 15.
3. The “Let’s Speak
American” program to teach conversational English to Hispanics by discussing
with them the founding principles that have resulted in American greatness.
4. The book Don is writing to
refute the fundamental assumption of the left, “post modernism”, which explains
the left’s irrationality and lack of reality.
Also, how to prepare your children to resist the
insanity with which they will be indoctrinated in college.
5. The Christian roots of
the Founding Fathers and the Judeo-Christian world-view of founding documents
of the United States of America.
6. “The Morality of Using
Deadly Force to Defend Innocent Persons or Nations From Evil Aggressors” or
“The U.S. Military As The Greatest Evidence of America’s Love”.
7. “The Logical Fallacies
Used In Debate By Leftist Media, Politicians, and
Academics”.
8. “Just War Theory, International
Conventions of War, and When Diplomacy and Appeasement Expire As Options For
Decent People Facing Aggressors”.
9. The Intellectual Basis of
the Judeo-Christian faith that makes it reasonable to believe.
10. “How Parents Should and
Can Protect Their Children From The Evil of The Left And The World”.
E. Volunteer for our IMPROVE and Let’s Start
Talking programs to educate disenfranchised voters in America about how and why America works so
well. And spread the word about these
programs to others who might want to help.
G.
Put us in contact with potential advertisers and sponsors who believe in
the greatness of America, especially in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Missouri.
H. Help Us Financially! We aren’t taking any salary or funds for ourselves at all right now
for what we are doing. We are doing it
for America and our children. But the
costs for the additional equipment we need to do produce these shows to a
studio quality (which is necessary for syndication),
get the signal to the network on ISDN lines, a studio quality production
studio, and related expenses is $2,500 immediately and $1,500 a month for the
first year.
We are confident that within six months, and quite possibly three
months, we can more than cover our costs with advertisers and sponsors. But we need help immediately while these
doors are open to make a difference for America and the Christian faith of her
founders. If you can make either a one
time contribution, or can commit to any monthly amount for the next six months,
please notify us ASAP of the amount and schedule you wish to
contribute. If you need more info,
contact Don.
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