It Happened In Church – October 19, 1962
Chapter Ninety Seven – Write the history
It Started In Church – October 19, 1962
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WRITING: TEOTWAWKI fiction – It Happened In Church – Chapter Ninety Seven – Write the history
Friday, October 10, 2008
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FUN: Training?
Friday, October 10, 2008FROM LUDDITE:
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An Indian walks into a cafe with a shotgun in one hand and pulling a male buffalo with the other.
He says to the waiter: ‘Want coffee.’
The waiter says, ‘Sure, Chief. Coming right up.’
He gets the Indian a tall mug of coffee. The Indian drinks the coffee down in one gulp, Turns and blasts the buffalo with the shotgun, Causing parts of the animal to splatter everywhere And then just walks out.
The next morning the Indian returns. He has his shotgun in one hand, pulling Another male buffalo with the other. He walks up to the counter and says to The waiter ‘Want coffee.’
The waiter says ‘Whoa, Tonto! We’re still cleaning up your mess from yesterday. What was all that about, anyway?’
The Indian smiles and proudly says …
‘Training for position in United States Congress: Come in, drink coffee, shoot the bull, Leave mess for others to clean up, Disappear for rest of day.’
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FUN: Origami Bank has folded
Thursday, October 9, 2008http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/023413.html
Bad news from Asia this afternoon as Japanese banks are the latest to be hit. Apparently,
* Origami Bank has folded.
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POLITICAL” O closer to his disavowed mentor
Thursday, October 9, 2008http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/who_wrote_dreams_from_my_fathe_1.html
October 09, 2008
Who Wrote Dreams From My Father?
By Jack Cashill
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Prior to 1990, when Barack Obama contracted to write Dreams From My Father, he had written very close to nothing. Then, five years later, this untested 33 year-old produced what Time Magazine has called — with a straight face — “the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician.”
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Interesting assertion, that hook O closer to his disavowed mentor.
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GOLD: Derivative risk
Wednesday, October 8, 2008http://www.survivalblog.com/2008/10/jims_quote_of_the_day_971.html
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Jim’s Quote of the Day:
“There is no counter-party risk — when you are holding Krugerrands.”
– SurvivalBlog Reader Rob C.
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PRODUCTIVITY: Disney’s $100,000 Salt + Pepper Shaker
Wednesday, October 8, 2008http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/2008/07/disneys-1000000.html
Disney’s $100,000 Salt + Pepper Shaker
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The story is simple. At 12 years old, a young Randy Pausch was exploring Disney World with his family and he and his sister decided they wanted to show their parents their appreciation for the trip. So they did what any other grateful children would do—they pooled their allowance money and headed straight for the Disney gift shop. A few minutes later, they emerged with the perfect gift. A ceramic Disney salt and pepper shaker featuring two bears in a tree holding the salt and pepper (not the ones in the photo above.) Randy and his sister left the store excited to see their parents faces when they opened the gift.
Minutes later, a mini-tragedy struck when Randy accidentally dropped the shaker, breaking it on impact. A nearby adult suggested that they should take it back to the store and they did so hesitantly, not expecting a positive outcome. To their surprise and delight, the Disney employee who had sold them the items apologized for not wrapping them appropriately and gave them a new set, no questions asked.
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In recent years as a consultant, Randy would often ask Disney executives this question: “If I sent a child into one of your stores with a broken salt and pepper shaker today, would your policies allow your workers to be kind enough to replace it?”
Randy says, “the executives squirm at the question. They know the answer: Probably not.”
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So we know have a new Leadership meme: “Does your org support 100k salt shakers?”
Hmmm, a very hard question to answer.
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WRITING: TEOTWAWKI fiction – Chapter Ninety Six – Fifty Years / American Stonehenge
Wednesday, October 8, 2008It happened in Church – October 19, 1962
Chapter Ninety Six – Fifty Years / American Stonehenge
It Started In Church – October 19, 1962
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RANT: It’s not a “financial crisis”; it’s a moral crisis!
Tuesday, October 7, 2008http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/16171/
Glenn Beck: What happened?
October 6, 2008 – 13:01 ET
Glenn’s letter to his family explaining how we got into this economic crisis…
Yes, another email letter from your crazy brother. You raised a lot of questions in your last email and I am going to try to answer all of them.
I think all of your questions fall into three areas: (1) how did we get here; (2) what’s coming; and (3) what can I do to prepare myself and my family.
Consider this email as my answer to your first question, “how did we get here?”. I’ll be sending you 2 more emails answering your other two questions. Since there’s a lot of misinformation out there I will document each of the facts in my emails so you know where I pulled the information from and where you can go to read and learn more.
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A well-reasoned well-documented apolitical (there’s a lot of blame to go around!) piece. Clearly, there are a lot of people who deserve some tar and feathers. Clearly, it ain’t going to change anytime soon. Clearly, not only will NEITHER prez candidate be ABLE to DO anything about it. So what’s some one to do. (1) Get rid of incumbent politicians. Good start. (2) DownsizeDC dot org to slow them down and put them under a microscope. (3) Get ready for a “japan decade” of low growth tight times and look at the stagflation of the Carter years. Morose, yes. Realistic, yes. We need to summon up the Dead Old White Guys for government reform, the courage to start making hard political choices, and good old American ingenuity. We have to THINK our way out of this mess. And, “thinking” is not Washington’s strong suit. Spending is. We have to follow the lead of Andrew Jackson and kill the FED. It’s the root of all evil in that the inflation tax allows COngress to spend money it doesn’t get from taxes. We need them to run an honest set of books. You want a war, pay for it. You want welfare, pay for it. You want spending, where is the tax to cover it. Painful, yes. Necessary, yes. Unavoidable, yes.
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FUN: Ig Nobel Prizes
Tuesday, October 7, 2008Ig Nobel Prizes – Humorous Alternative To Scandinavia’s Nobel Prizes
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There was even more agitation over the chemistry prize, awarded jointly to rival teams – one from the United States which determined Coca-Cola to be an effective spermicide and one from Taiwan which proved it is not.
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Handing out awards was William Lipscomb, the genuine 1976 Nobel laureate for chemistry, also doubling on Thursday, at the age of 89, as the hero in the “Win-a-Date-With-a-Nobel-Laureate Contest”.
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The ability to laugh at ourselves is probably our crowning ability.
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LIBERTY: Morality v Moralism or MYOB!
Tuesday, October 7, 2008http://ncc-1776.org/tle2008/tle487-20081005-06.html
Morality v Moralism
by A.X. Perez
perez180ehs -+at+- hotmail.com
Attribute to The Libertarian Enterprise
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Morals come in two flavors, morality and moralism.
Morality is that which some people practices in their own life to achieve freedom. Moralism is what some people try to impose on others to enslave them.
For example,let us consider alcohol. A person may choose to refrain from (or at least limit) consuming whiskey and beer to maintain his judgement and to avoid addiction. This is a moral decision to maintain control of his own life. He may be guided by religious precepts but it is ultimately an exercise in determining his own destiny.
Others decide that no one should be allowed to drink. they seek to use the power of the state to stop others from enjoying wine and rum even if they do so responsibly. They may seek to bolster their arguments by pointing to the role of drunk drivers in fatal accidents (like the bitch who ran over my old man, and yeah I’m not setting an example of Christian forgiveness. Deal.) and alcohol in general on homicide and other acts of violence. However, their goal is not to solve these problems but rather to prevent anyone from drinking, even the vast majority who use alcoholic beverages responsibly.
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Interesting. I never made that distinction. I am well familiar with the “different sets of rules” for what I do and what you do. It’s annoying when you get preached at; it’s slavery when the guns of gooferment are used on you.
Argh!
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