Saturday, June 04, 2011

The Queen Speaks on YOUR DIME. 1.75 Million Dollars worth of dimes

I wonder what the little people are doing?

She is served by twenty-six attendants, including a hair dresser and make-up artist. The annual cost to taxpayers for such unprecedented attention is approximately $1,750,000 without taking into account the expense of the lavish benefit packages afforded to every attendant.

Does Mrs. Obama have an unprecedented number of staffers

in a time when 34 million Americans - - a record number - -

rely on food stamps to feed their families?

The annual cost to taxpayers for such unprecedented attention is approximately $1,750,000 without taking into account the expense of the lavish benefit packages afforded to every attendant. Little did American voters realize the call for “change” would result in the establishment of an Obama oligarchy.

The discovery of the additional attendants was made by D’Angelo Gore of factcheck.org and by calls to Katie McCormick Lelyyeld, Michelle Obama’s press secretary.

Vassals are what we have all become

The king gave large estates to his friends and relatives. These estates known as the fief included houses, barns, tools, animals, and serfs or peasants. The king also promised to protect the vassal on the field or in the courts. In return the nobles who were granted the fiefs swore an oath of loyalty to the king. The nobles promised never to fight against the king. They also had to give the king whatever he asked for. The king may ask for men to fight a war, money, or advice. The nobles also gave the king a place to stay when he traveled.

We are there again.

The Dark Side of Facebook

This blog reveals that a rumor is not true...but ran wide open on Facebook.

“This is ridiculous and Direct TV should be ashamed!
As Joplin victims call Direct TV to cancel their service due to homes completely wiped off the map, they are being told to send in a box or remote control or pay a fine of $500+ to cancel service. DirectTV should be boycotted. Tell their employees to go to these former HOMES and find their remote controls… REPOST!”

It's not true. We need to be more careful.
1 Corinthians 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16 Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”
We know it to be true of cigarettes, alcohol, chocolate and a plethora of other substances, but is it really possible to be “addicted” to another human being? Author and sexual purity expert Dannah Gresh thinks so. In a recent op-ed for CNN, she describes the emotional dangers young people face when
If you come from a socialist country you know how bad it can be...so the only place is the tea party
Lolita Mancheno-Smoak, an immigrant from Ecuador who once dreamed of becoming her country s president, has found an unlikely home in the tea party movement.
If you ever wondered where the dumb blond jokes come from...see Mehgan McCain
Meghan McCain: No. I’m in, like, dating Babylon. Like, I go on dates with men and, literally, like Sarah Palin will come up in like the first 20 minutes, and that doesn’t put me in the mood. Like, talking about Sarah Palin. And they just want to know gossip, and I’m just kind of taking a little hiat
This is NOT about money...it's about culture. Would you have done something? They didn't....money or not.
The other day, I went to Times Square to ask people what government should do to help poor people. Most everyone agreed on the answer: "more social programs and a higher minimum wage."

North Dakota Executive explains economics

IF you wonder why we are in so much trouble, why government (Republican and Democrat) has wrecked our economy. This isn't going to end well.
The man in the aisle seat is trying to tell me why he refuses to hire anybody. His business is successful, he says, as the 737 cruises smoothly eastward. Demand for his product is up. But he still won’t hire.
The bumper stickers next election cycle might say: “Romney — At Least he's not Obama”, The president can’t merely attack his opponent or George W. Bush as he did last time; he’s going to need a record of accomplishment on the issues voters care most about. And unless the economy turns around very quickly, that’s going to be a very large problem.
We the taxpayer are going to lose 14 Billion dollars and the White House is touting this as a victory ? Id like to know who they think is stupid enough to fall for that. How much are we going to lose on the loans to Ford ? Oh thats right Ford pulled it off without a handout from the government. We lose nothing on Ford. How about the GM bond holders who were robbed? The Unions ended up owning GM free and clear. T
Two years after President Obama decided to bail out General Motors, the White House credited the president's “political courage” and the efforts of the company’s stakeholders for turning around the Big Three auto companies.
This is a blog I read. I don't agree with his Eschatology...but his perspective is apt. I don't think we realize the evil that is among us.
Seriously, if we ran into our persecuted brothers and sisters from China, Iraq, Pakistan, etc... would we even have anything to say to them? Would we have anything in common? No wonder they are begging us, and begging God to wake up the Christ followers in the USA. But even with all the disaste...
This is about Australia..but there is a thread of this in the USA. We see the left align itself with Radical Islam. The enemy of my enemy etc..... Of course they have nothing in common except a hatred for Jews, Christians and freedom. They thrive on imposed tyranny. This is why I take a strong stand against both the left wing and Islam. They are one in spirit..the antichrist spirit.
Labor and the Coalition have both condemned the torture and killing of a 13-year-old boy in Syria. So why have the Greens kept quiet on this issue?
This article and one from the growing Church in Iraq http://tinyurl.com/3hqqnfw is why we in the USA don't understand what we are praying for when we pray for revival. When it comes it will look very different from the western concept of true revival. The world hates Christians. It hates YOU. The time of trouble will produce pure saints of God. That's what your Bible says. Are we ready for REVIVAL?
Around the world, and especially in Africa and Asia, Christian populations are suffering severe discrimination and brutal attacks
Really want to understand the Obama Mideast Plan? Watch this.
In an effort to bring peace to the Middle East, President Barack Obama has proposed that Israel should return to its 1967 borders in exchange for being annih...
Mexico is about to fail, It will mean the USA will have one more battle on it's hands. Time to focus. This is more important than Afghanistan or Iraq. Mexico will become a fester on the elbow of the USA. There is no other choice
Mario Ramos thought it was a bad joke when he received an anonymous email at the start of this year demanding $15,000 a month to keep his industrial tubing business operating in Monterrey, Mexico's richest city and a symbol of progress in Latin America.
ALL (YES ALL) THE RAPES IN NORWAY IN THE LAST 5 YEARS WERE COMMITTED BY MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS

Friday, June 03, 2011

Sport of Choice

INTERESTING OBSERVATION



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1. The sport of choice for the urban poor is BASKETBALL.




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2 The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is BOWLING.




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3 The sport of choice for front-line workers is FOOTBALL.



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4 The sport of choice for supervisors is BASEBALL.




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5 The sport of choice for middle management is TENNIS.

And....




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6 The sport of choice for corporate executives and officers is GOLF.


THE AMAZING CONCLUSION:

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The higher you go in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become. People in Washington obviously play with marbles!

HT Barry Kolb

Wednesday, June 01, 2011

A True Story about why the job market stinks so much

The man in the aisle seat is trying to tell me why he refuses to hire anybody. His business is successful, he says, as the 737 cruises smoothly eastward. Demand for his product is up. But he still won’t hire.

“Why not?”

“Because I don’t know how much it will cost,” he explains. “How can I hire new workers today, when I don’t know how much they will cost me tomorrow?”

He’s referring not to wages, but to regulation: He has no way of telling what new rules will go into effect when. His business, although it covers several states, operates on low margins. He can’t afford to take the chance of losing what little profit there is to the next round of regulatory changes. And so he’s hiring nobody until he has some certainty about cost.

Read the whole thing

Sarah Palin = JFK?

Sarah Palin Might Just Make it Work...if history is any pathway

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Before the Famous Last Words....

Over the weekend I had the chance to visit one on one with the man who fathered me. In his middle 90s. Still going but at a point in his life where the end is not a theory any more.

He said some profound things to me. I don't know why. But we were alone. I was an ear.

He said,
"There are many things I wish I had done. I'm glad I did what I did but if I hadn't and made other choices they would have probably worked out as well. I wish I had done some thing I didn't do. Now as age has crept up, I cannot do them any more and I know that. Do what you want to do and do it while you can."


It was profound because what he said resonated. I had read a study of what people in hospice, people in nursing homes, people at the end of their days say they wish they had done better or different. They do not regret WHAT they did... God takes that on HIMSELF. They regret not having done what they might have. They regret having lived without doing what they thought about doing. They regret being too cautious. They regret taking the safe route in life. Their message to us is, don't back off. Do it now.

There is a person who lives life working with the dying. They report these regrets in order as:
1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
2. I wish I didn't work so hard.
3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

Life is a choice. It is YOUR life. Choose consciously, choose wisely, choose honestly. Choose happiness.
This emotion is exactly what was said to me. We regret what we didn't do, not what we did.

I am challenged by this.

WHAT if we try and fail...are there not regrets?

According to this maybe we fear failure too much. Penelope Trunk wrote this:

So I ask myself, what is the cost if the risk does not work out? But when I consider process as well as outcome, then the scales often seem to tip in favor of the risk. Here's are five things I keep in mind when assessing risk:

1. Long-term regrets are usually about not taking more risks.
If you ask people at the end of their lives what their biggest regret is, it’s common for the regret to center around not taking more risks. The same is true of younger people. Ran Kivets is a psychologist at Columbia University who studies winter break. He says that in the short-term college kids regret not having studied enough, but in the long-term, college kids regret not having had more fun. So it’s no surprise that of the most popular posts on my blog is about regrets over getting straight A’s. (Hat tip: Joshua Althouse Cohen)

2. Being wrong costs very little.
In general, people don’t care if you’re wrong; it’s your life and you get to make mistakes. Also, in general, people don’t care if you’re right because they are too interested in themselves. And okay, it’s true that if you invest a lot of money being wrong costs a lot, butut there are very few risks we consider that require a huge outlay of money and a 100% risk on that money. Instead, risk-taking generally requires a relatively small percentage of the money you can earn. Fortunately, the way we get the most happiness from spending money is by spending on experiences. And what better experience than taking a risk and finding out what it will be like.

3. People bounce back faster than they expect.
Most of us are much more resilient than we realize. Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard, explains that we each have a set-point for how happy we are going to be, and we mostly just stick there. Winning a lot of money doesn’t make us much happier, and losing the ability to walk doesn’t make us much sadder. So it’s fair to conclude that most of us overestimate the impact risk-taking will have on our lives.

4. Don’t make the risk bigger than it needs to be.
For example a lot of people think they need to quit their job to try starting a new company (you don’t) or someone who thinks they need to completely dump one career to try a new career (you don’t.) The best risk takers are in fields like entrepreneurship, hedge fund management, and excavation. The thing these people all have in common – those who are successful in their field – is that they are constantly working to mitigate risk before they take the risk. Sometimes just looking at how someone else has approached your challenge can show you a less risky approach to taking the risk.

5. Most risks turn out fine.
In our minds, that is. Gilbert shows that we are able to reframe a poor decision in order to think it was a good decision. Having kids is his favorite example to use. Having kids makes us less happy, but we invest so much time and money into raising kids, that we’re able to convince ourselves it made us happy, and we don’t have regrets. And successful people who make big career mistakes are able to reframe the mistakes so they don’t matter. Also, inherently positive thinkers don’t usually have regrets over the long-term. (Wondering if you are one of these people? Take the test (middle of the page)


President Theodore Roosevelt said:

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910


I would regret not being the one he spoke of who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Living life in the middle ground of lukewarm safety without ever making a stand. Let that not be my regret as I draw my last breath.