“You can only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.”
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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QUOTE: Solzhenitsyn on desparation
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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QUOTE: Simon Cowell says blunt honesty best
Saturday, May 2, 2009“Four or five people have made a career. Out of the 4 million people that have auditioned for American Idol. I don’t see how telling some one, who is terrible, that they are good is helpful.”
— Simon Cowell on the Mark Simone radio show
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QUOTE: FDAS!
Thursday, April 9, 2009In the immortal words of Dean Wormer: “fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life”.
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QUOTE: Churchill “You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory”
Tuesday, March 31, 2009“…if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
-Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 1, The Gathering Storm (London: Cassell, 1948, 272, on the British guarantee to Poland in Spring 1939.
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PRODUCTIVITY: Play the Point, Not the Score
Tuesday, February 17, 2009http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/02/play-the-point-not-the-score.html
Play the Point, Not the Score
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Brad Gilbert – a great tennis player (and coach) in his own right – was one of the announcers for the finals. He annoyed me at first with his whispery affect until I realized that he was courtside. He completed redeemed himself when he uttered the line of the tournament: “Nadal is so incredible because he plays the point, not the score.”
Ponder that – Play the point, not the score.
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This is such a powerful metaphor for business (and life). Play the point, not the score. Down 4-1? Doesn’t matter – play the point. Just had someone quit on you. Doesn’t matter, play the point. Fell short of plan for the month of January – doesn’t matter – play the point. Just had a big deal go off the rails? Doesn’t matter – play the point.
When you are in the game, play the point. Play every point. Regardless of the score.
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Seems so simple. But, then most great ideas are.
The problem is that we are always in some game or another.
When does one pull out of the game and take stock. Assess where you are in life.
Like the famous Drew Carey quip … in his series Whose Line Is It … “and, the points don’t matter”
Hmmm?
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QUOTES: Impossibe!
Friday, January 30, 2009http://www.plaxo.com/events/show/133143714
If someone says: “That’s impossible!”
You should understand it as: “According to my limited experience and narrow understanding of reality, that’s very unlikely.”
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QUOTE: Gooferment debases the currency … ALWAYS! – Friedrich von Hayek
Saturday, January 17, 2009“With the exception only of the period during which the gold standard was in effect, virtually all governments throughout history have used their exclusive power to issue money, as a method to defraud and plunder the people.” – Friedrich von Hayek
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QUOTE: all politicians, of all parties, are fundamentally unqualified!
Tuesday, January 13, 2009“Once again, we believe all politicians, of all parties, are fundamentally unqualified to decide how other people should live. We do not believe in top-down social engineering by Republicans, Democrats, or anyone else. We believe in critical thinking, limited, decentralized power structures, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.” — D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h (DownSizeDC dot ORG)
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QUOTE: Who rules?
Thursday, December 25, 2008In his 1928 book, Propaganda, Bernays wrote, “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country…”
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Definition of “sheeple” (i.e., people who are sheep)!
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QUOTE: Gooferment always gets bigger! “the ratchet effect”
Saturday, December 20, 2008Underappreciated aspects of the ratchet effect
Liberty & Power
by Robert Higgs
“I have always insisted that modern government has many facets and that, at minimum, a study of its growth must consider not only government spending (or taxing or employing), but also the government’s scope and power. Changes in these latter aspects of government do not leave the same kind of easily retrieved record, or numerical data set, that economists typically work with — and without which they are more or less at sea, or in denial. Over the many years that I have pursued my research into the growth of government, I have repeatedly met with evidence of essential elements of the ratchet effect that lie completely beyond the purview of conventional economic research on this subject.” (12/16/08)
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/58352.html
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[JR: Every gooferment actions, law, or program needs a SUNSET date!]
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GUNS: How did “victim disarmament” cause the Indian slaughter
Saturday, December 6, 2008http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/024230.html
November 30, 2008
How Gun Control Laws Contributed To the Mumbai Slaughter
Posted by Butler Shaffer at November 30, 2008 07:14 PM
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An interesting article, from October, 2005, provided by http://www.gunowners.org:
Gun Control And Self-defense Against Terrorism In India
by Abhijeet Singh
Colonial Roots of Gun-Control
I live in India and I am a proud firearm owner — but I am the exception not the norm, an odd situation in a country with a proud martial heritage and a long history of firearm innovation. This is not because the people of India are averse to gun ownership, but instead due to Draconian anti-gun legislation going back to colonial times.
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I blogged about this when I first heard it.
It’s not “gun control”; it’s “victim disarmament”!
Interesting how Colonial Laws from one set of politicians are quickly “updated” by another set of politicians. They all fear an armed people.
Riots? The Korean grocers showed how to end mob rule very quickly.
Gun rights, aka the right to defend yourself, is actually also a “women’s rights” issue.
The Holocaust demonstrated what happens when scapegoats are unarmed.
British home invasions, when the homes are occupied, skyrocket with “victim disarmament”!
Apparently the Indian slaughter in Mumbai was pulled off by 10 criminals. Reports have armed police refusing to fire on them. And, the “crack commandos” were like the Keystone Kops. (Remember Columbine, where the “heroic” police encircled the school, until the criminals finished killing everyone and themselves?)
Remember how Israeli schools and daycare centers were targeted until armed grandparents started providing security. And, the last massacre was on a school trip where guns were not permitted.
Wake up folks! Criminals don’t obey laws. Kops are just gooferment bureaucrats who are there to clean up the bodies and fill out paperwork. Dial 911 and die.
Of interest was in the 2006 article, the Indian writer cited Gandhi, the Dali Lama, Lenin, and a slew of the DOWGs! Fascinating.
“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.” — Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography OR The story of my experiments with truth, by M.K. Gandhi, p.238)
“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.” — The Dalai Lama, (May 15, 2001, The Seattle Times) speaking at the “Educating Heart Summit” in Portland, Oregon, when asked by a girl how to react when a shooter takes aim at a classmate
“A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.” — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”— George Mason
From my cold dead hands … …
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HERE’S ANOTHER STORY!
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/mumbais_harsh_lesson_on_gun_co.html
December 10, 2008
Mumbai’s Harsh Lesson on Gun Control
By Abhijeet Singh
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At the Jewish outreach centre, bystanders pelted the terrorists with stones in a vain attempt to ward off the attack, but had to retreat when the terrorists opened fire with automatic rifles. Our citizens were trying to ward off the terrorists with stones! I cannot think of a more extreme example of how helpless the government has rendered it’s own citizens. In the absence of guns, and thus incapable of offering any resistance, they were simply like lambs to the slaughter. On that fateful day, this was a story repeated again and again all over Mumbai: unarmed civilians, slow & inept emergency services, and mindless slaughter of innocents.
But we live in a democracy; hence at the end of the day it is each one of us who is to blame. It is we the people who must ask our representatives hard questions; it is we who must bring the right to bear arms to the forefront of the political agenda. We have the power to effect change through our votes and with elections just a few months away, let us not forget the lessons of Mumbai, let us not forget those that lost their lives there, many of who could have been saved if just a few of us were armed.
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QUOTE: Pick your battles
Saturday, December 6, 2008“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.” – Jonathon Kozol
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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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Quote: Tom Peters “irrelevence”
Monday, September 15, 2008Irrelevance comes from always doing the things you know how to do in the way you’ve always done them.
– Tom Peters
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Reinke Faces Life 