INTERESTING: THINKING ABOUT THINKING

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/turning-straw-gold/201302/what-type-thinker-are-you

Turning Straw Into Gold
Life through a Buddhist lens
by Toni Bernhard, J.D.

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Here’s an example: “People are sick or people are healthy.” For many years after becoming chronically ill, those were the only two possibilities I saw: I was sick or I was healthy. Each night I’d go to bed, hoping to wake up healthy. When I didn’t, I considered myself to be sick. It was one or the other.

Along with that, I thought I only had two possible courses of action: I could be a law professor or I could do nothing with my life. That may sound extreme, but that’s how I saw it at the time. Not wanting to do the latter, I forced myself to keep working, even though I was too sick to do so. It didn’t occur to me that I could be in poor health and lead a productive life.

Here’s another example of convergent thinking. When I considered how friends responded to me when I became chronically ill, I saw only two possibilities: those who stuck around cared about me and those who didn’t stick around didn’t care about me. I wasn’t able to see that people could drop out of my life and still care about me.

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Interesting in that what else is there between “sick” and “well”?

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POLITICAL: Conservative Welfare State — an oxymoron?

Monday, March 11, 2013

http://reason.com/blog/2013/03/09/do-republicans-need-a-conservative-versi

Do Republicans Need a Conservative Version of the Welfare State to Win?
Shikha Dalmia|Mar. 9, 2013 2:51 pm

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In short, the ideal conservative welfare state would be a libertarian dystopia of even bigger proportions than the liberal welfare state. There is less welfare and more state in it.

But what is deeply ironic is that a magazine that accuses libertarians of isolationism because they oppose American military interventionism has no qualms about recommending a restrictionist immigration policy to keep foreigners out and a protectionist trade policy to keep foreign goods out. If I had to pick a term for this foreign policy, I’d call it neo-isolationism. And maybe I lack imagination, but it is hard to see how a party that wants to engage the world through its “fearsome military” — rather than through voluntary exchange and mutual cooperation — could gain enough moral high ground to craft a winning political message, especially in a war-weary country.

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Sorry, but that is just tyranny with a different label!

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HARDWARE: Watching ESPN3 on the big screen via Apple TV

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Watch the Manhattan College Jaspers on ESPM3 over the internet.

“Threw it” from the IPAD to the Apple TV which puts it on the TV.

Neat!

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INSPIRATIONAL: Online education

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Has anyone looked at ITUNES lately?

It seems that ANYTHING that you would like to learn is there!!!

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GUNS: No one wants to face a gun

Saturday, March 9, 2013

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/28/texas-man-holds-3-burglary-suspects-at-gunpoint-until-cops-arrive/

CRIME

TEXAS MAN TAKES ON 3 HOME INTRUDERS WITH A RIFLE — FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED

Feb. 28, 2013 6:58pm Jason Howerton

When Randy Magdeleno arrived home Wednesday morning, he found three burglary suspects running around his Houston home. It was a terrifying situation, he said, but thankfully he had his gun to protect him.

The problem was, the .22LR bolt-action rifle was unloaded. But the burglars didn’t know that.

The incident occurred around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. Magdeleno said he heard voices as soon as he entered his home after dropping his wife off at work.

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The only problem was that his gun was left unloaded.

It’s like a fire extinguisher that’s uncharged!

Argh!

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SURVIVAL: One risk that you can’t plan for

Friday, March 8, 2013

http://lewrockwell.com/rep4/sinkhole-map.html

Do You Live in Sinkhole Territory?

U.S. Geological Survey

Sinkholes are common where the rock below the land surface is limestone, carbonate rock, salt beds, or rocks that can naturally be dissolved by ground water circulating through them. As the rock dissolves, spaces and caverns develop underground. Sinkholes are dramatic because the land usually stays intact for a while until the underground spaces just get too big. If there is not enough support for the land above the spaces then a sudden collapse of the land surface can occur. These collapses can be small, as this picture shows, or they can be huge and can occur where a house or road is on top.

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This is scary stuff!

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QUOTE: Restraining great power?

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.”

–Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Swiss author

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RANT: The illusion of “free speech” about the Gooferment!

Thursday, March 7, 2013

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/03/conservatives-liberals-media-advocates-rally-behind-man-jailed-for-criticizing/?test=latestnews

Conservatives, liberals, media advocates rally behind man jailed for criticizing Indiana judge

Published March 03, 2013

FoxNews.com

A group of free-speech advocates is rallying behind an Indiana inmate serving two years for his online rants against a judge who took away his child-custody rights during a divorce case.

There’s no disputing that Daniel Brewington’s words were strong and angry — found in hundreds of emails over the course of the related, two-year divorce case.

But the group is asking the state’s highest court to decide whether they indeed amounted to criminal behavior.

Brewington was convicted in 2011 of perjury, intimidating a judge and attempting to obstruct justice — with the attorney general’s office successfully arguing that his threat was to expose the judge to “hatred, contempt, disgrace or ridicule.”

However, the group recently filed an amicus brief with the state Supreme Court arguing an appeals court decision in January upholding the felony intimidation charge threatens constitutionally protected speech about public officials.

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Don’t think we have “free speech” in this country?

Sorry, but the “courts” are merely there to provide an illusion of legitimacy!

Argh!!!

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INSPIRATIONAL: Overcoming

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

http://99u.com/articles/7300/The-Stax-Records-Guide-To-Overcoming-Setbacks?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+The99Percent+%28The+99+Percent%29

The Stax Records Guide To Overcoming Setbacks

by John Caddell

In 1968, Al Bell, president of Stax Records, the pioneering R&B music label, learned that the expiration of his company’s distribution arrangement with larger Atlantic Records would deprive Stax ownership of its own back catalog of music – the songs and albums the label had released since its founding in 1959.

Since much of the worth of a record label came from its back catalog, Stax Records was, in effect, starting over as a business without the steady residuals a large catalog could provide. Confronted with this reality, Al Bell decided to create a brand-new catalog.

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Wow, how many people can “reboot” themselves?

Hard to imagine. But if you have no choice, then choices are easy?

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INSPIRATIONAL: TED talks!

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

http://www.georgeambler.com/10-great-ted-talks-for-leaders/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ThePracticeOfLeadership+%28Leading+in+Turbulent+Times%29

10 Great TED Talks for Leaders

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TED is just about the best place to visit if you have a few minutes to kill. TED offers lectures by brilliant people doing amazing things in areas including technology, entertainment, design, business and science. Listed below are 10 great TED talks on leadership for leaders.

Fields Wicker-Miurin: Learning from leadership’s “missing manual”

Leadership doesn’t have a user’s manual, but Fields Wicker-Miurin says stories of remarkable, local leaders are the next best thing. At a TED salon in London, she shares three.

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TED TALKS are like a quick MBA!

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