The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. Marcus Tullius Cicero - 55 BC
Read the story of Cicero. mmm….2000 years and nothing has changed. We’re doomed.
Likely you have heard this old adage about security and liberty. The security they talk about is economic. Things are likely to get tougher in the near future. We are shipping too much money out of the country for oil. We are too dainty to allow it to be drilled on our coasts and in ANWR. Thus things will deteriorate more until the pain threshold is found.
Many people will want to vote for the politician that says it will be ok if we only regulate this or tax that. These are the unDemocrats who will say anything to get elected. Say anything to get the power. I would like to think you as an electorate will have the sense not to listen. But I’m doubtful about this. You listened in the past and you likely will in the future. The problem is this sort of thing never helps economically and in fact damages something much more precious than your temporary economic circumstances and that would be your liberty. I know this is true. My favorite home away from home country is Brazil. As currently constituted Brazil has a fully implemented form of government that the unDemocrats want to have here. The people know their government and changing it is hopeless. Nothing will ever change in that area and the Brazilians know it. With liberty you can improve your economic circumstances. With economic wellbeing you can not necessarily do diddly squat about your liberty. I know its tough to be a good soldier. You have to be brave. And clearly about 50% of the population lacks any impulse toward liberty. Quite the opposite. They lick their chops at the thought of another round of incremental carving up of liberty for the sake of financial gain.
Remember losing a job is temporary. Living in a land of curtailed liberty is pretty much for your entire lifetime. So don’t be dour Gus Halls who secretly long for a beer, a recliner and a black and white television. For an inspired life you have to dream of liberty.
Get Russia to repeat that their invasion is to protect the Russian enclaves. Then mobilize a massive humanitarian U.N. or USA response. Locate large U.N. or USA personel in Georgia as quickly as possible.
Then wait for a Russian tank or aircraft to come to near and shoot and destroy it. Then inform Putin and company that you will not tolerate any threats to humanitarian personel. If any further aggression occurs warn the Russians to instruct their personel to stap aside from their military hardware as it will be destroyed in 1 hours. Then use US air power to destroy all tanks in Georgia.
The Russian hardware is not sufficient to stop any of this from happening. They will not go nuclear as we can match them on this. The sooner the better as you do not want Russia developing feelings of attachment. We need to strike before they think they own Georgia.
-1- For the small guy it is just a way to publish your technology so it can be used by other bigger fish sans compensation. How many lawyers can you afford to pay full time?
-2- Its a great way for big companies to bully little ones.
When I worked at Honeywell we engineers were encouraged to apply for patents. If Motorola sent a stack of paper 6 inches tall Honeywell wanted to be able to respond with a stack of paper 12 inches tall.
Who but a big company could afford the herd of lawyers required to fight such battles?
The house republicans need your help. The house unDemocrats have turned off the C-span cameras while the Republicans talk about the need for off shore drilling during the congressional break.
Update: The Capitol Police are now trying to kick reporters out of the press gallery above the floor, meaning we can’t watch the Republicans anymore. But Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) is now in the gallery talking to reporters, so the cops have held off for a minute. Clearly, Democrats don’t want Republicans getting any press for this episode. GOP leaders are trying to find other Republicans to rotate in for Blunt so reporters aren’t kicked out.
So the unDemocrats are using police to censor republican expression! We always knew they were the ones who practice this sort of technique. Now we have the proof !
I was dissappointed to hear the Republicans quit at 5 P.M. I think this is a great technique.
You need to plan it out better.
Have everything set and a network of people with cameras ready to cover the speeches.
Have a way of keeping C-Span on.
Allow some outsiders to speak - I would love the chance to riff on the nutjob unDemocrats
Many people who are weak or lack discipline are quick to want to associate with the phenomenon that is B.O. Being and engineer pretty much puts me in the lowest 10% of the population in regards emotional responses. I am a symphony of emotions. I just do not listen to them with out very long periods of time averaging and repeated application of logic. Some say sleep on it. Some things I sleep on for monthes, years or even decades.
Thus it pains me to see the B.O. phenomenon. What is obvious after a lifetime of intellectual and spiritual discipline is he will be a disaster for the country.
The last thing any individual or country needs is a cult figure to tell you how to live. Isn’t it time you grow up and determine your own future?
The signs are abundant B.O. is planning on dealing with political life as some sort of twist between politics and cult of personality. Personally I prefer all cases to be put forward logically and I decide how I will vote logically. The emotional route is one chosen simply to railroad weak ideas.
You people just seem to crave someone to tell you what to do. Someone you can look up to like a parental figure. I’m not sure whether its because you lacked or had overly attentive parents.
Every time I see this I thank my lucky stars I was shot out of the womb wanting to be my own person.
Get a clue people! I already knew what you are about to see instinctively. I’m waiting for you catch up so we can have a better county by putting these useless SOB’s out of business. All government spending is thus. You can not separate fly shit from black pepper no matter how magical you think a person may be. Thus all government decision making is non-market decisions and all either less than or equal to market decisions in quality. Thus they only logical conclusion is to let the market decide and not politicians.
You own and business and you want to encourage gym usage on the part of your employees. What is the optimum method? Do you pay the total cost of the membership? The smartest solution is how the owner of EFDATA Bob Fitting handled gym memberships. Gym memberships were subsidized but not free. His explanation was if its free EVERYBODY signs up and they 1 in 10 uses what his company paid for. His solution? It was to charge a nominal fee large enough that you had to really WANT to use the membership or it made no sense. It was like 20 bucks a month. Just enough to make them make a decision. This is a flip side view of the same idea that people do not respect things they get for a low cost. For example if you are too nice unless the person(s) you are dealing with are very mature and have alot of experience dealing with people you are bound to get short shrift. Even then it pays to toughen up sometimes. But then some people are just so sweet they are really not capable of stinking the place up. Its a delicate balance knowing when to spray. What does Mr. Skanks say?
The practical fact is its lame being a follower. That’s what you are doing when you play for acceptance. I had a friend in middle and high school. His name was Nick. Nick was always thinking about what was cool. He had a black leather jacket. He was an adrenaline junky. He liked his rushes. He was my best friend all through that time. When we graduated high school I went off to college. After a couple of years he headed out to San Francisco. Do you KNOW how uncool it is to be such a follower ? ….latching onto every lame fad and fashion including global warming? A person is never so uncool as when they are playing for acceptance. Go your own way. Think for yourself for a change. You will wonder how your life got so much better! Nick should have learned that from me. When we were in high school he got into trouble on various occassions. I had a knack of knowing when he was up to something and finding something else to do. He and another friend of his used to act like I was not cool. I didn’t care. Because my ego is big enough to accept that others don’t approve of me for one reason or another. In fact its one of my most self cherished traits to be so stubborn and so confident and self assured. But Nick did not learn. About 1987 he called me up and asked for money. I poor mouthed and said I did not have any. Later I found out he loaned some money off of his brother and did not pay it back. He went to San Francisco. Up to that time he had managed his risks and come through untouched. But Nick loved his rushes. And he did not have the self discipline that comes from being "uncool" and saying no when its the right thing to do. So he ended up shooting up meth with one of his cohorts up there. Only problem was he didn’t take the time to get his own needle. Any needle would have done. He probably could have soaked any old needle out of the dump in Clorox making sure to pump it through the needle. But no that would have been uncool. And nothing got in the way of being uncool for Nick. I mean really even if you’re a tweaker you don’t have to be stupid. So he ended up with HIV. Since he had tried to rip me off he never called. I never called him because my spider sense that I had developed around him in high school told me not to. There is no helping an accident waiting to happen. Believing in global warming makes you look like a true sap. But let me repeat there is no time when you are more uncool as when you are following the crowd. Especially if a needle is involved.
Its a delicate balance knowing when to spray. 
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