Thursday, August 25, 2016
Got a SECRET? 3 Can Keep a Secret if 2...
It is very difficult to keep a secret. Of course, some are perfect examples of "telephone, telegraph, and tell a woman" but men often "pass on" things they hear, especially if not sworn to secrecy. There's always that "just gotta blab" gossip that is indeed too provacative and "delicious" to keep to keep "under your hat" or to yourself.
But scientists, or at least behaviorial scientists, relate a scientific reason why so many of otherwise prudent and thoughtful people turn into serious blabbermouths at the drop of a hat. often the SAME hat that they SWORE to "keep it under" and "to themselves." If you've ever heard of a "burning question" — there is a such thing as a "burning answer" since it is often too mentally taxing on the human brains to keep a secret.
Perhaps this is why those seeking to keep secrets often "compartmentalize"
and "isolate" secrets to keep them under wraps.
Much of the US and other governments' secrets are managed in this manner. No assistant or helper or underling -- knows the big picture or has a sizable piece of the puzzle that is the "secret".
As humans, once entrusted with or having witnessed something hush-hush, it becomes a "mental effort" to ensure that "Entrusted or privy" to the secret don't give it away when talking to basically everyone else who's unaware of the secret. , A learned psychologist, Art Markman, penned these lines for Fast Company. As human beings, we have to think about what information the ones we speak to already know and consider what they don't know.
Art Markman wrote,"Our minds have a limited capacity to process information. So if you're engaged in a complex discussion, it may be difficult to keep track of what you're allowed to say and what you aren't, which can lead you to divulge information you shouldn't."
Science Shows Why It's So F***ing Hard to Keep a Secret
Kathleen Wong June 2, 2016
There's a scientific reason why so many of us turn into serious blabbermouths at the drop of a hat — and it has nothing to do with gossip that's too juicy to keep to yourself. Turns out, the task of keeping a secret is often too mentally taxing on our brains.
Once we learn a secret, it becomes a "mental effort" to make sure we don't give it away when talking to basically everyone else who's unaware of the secret, psychologist Art Markman wrote for Fast Company. We have to think about what information they already know and don't know.
"Our minds have a limited capacity to process information," Markman wrote. "So if you're engaged in a complex discussion, it may be difficult to keep track of what you're allowed to say and what you aren't, which can lead you to divulge information you shouldn't."
Still other studies give credence to the theory of mental multitasking being too overwhelming for our so-so, average brains.
When something called "Fast Company" interviewed psychology professor David Strayer in 2013 he stated,"If you're doing a lot, you have less attention to monitor your own activity, so you're not aware that you're missing some details."
The toughest to keep secrets are the ones that would bring negative repercussions, i.e. "dire consequences" to the subjects of the secret. It turns out that knowing information with such high stakes produces a kind of social tension that urges and goads us to make a comment that would elicit a reaction from our chat buddy. This is the same social tension that entices people to want to tell their friends about a new artist we just discovered. And the more of a fan to that type of artist, of course, the more likelihood that "word-of-mouth will spread the word...which is GREAT for a budding artist that's new on the scene but TERRIBLE for someone who "got caught doing something" or something happened to them that they would rather faded into the past as forgotten as the 9th snowfall of 2010.
besides the social tension that "overloads the brain's electrical "grid", the very act of keeping a secret, often comes with some lying of some degree, and this can stress people out.
For a certainty MOST non-politicians do not want to be called liars but all things considered, that's not much worse than being called a gossip, a blabbermouth, or a "loose-lipper" that is NOT to be trusted.
Some politicians take special pride in giving baffle-gab non-answers and even drop a few big lies. They see themselves as the quintessential epitome of slick in every nuance of the word. Perhaps they will "get theirs" in 30-40 years when their "maker" decides to "send them home with the other workers of sin and inequity."
Friday, July 23, 2010
Oil Scheme = Deep Pocket Dream?
When one follows the money, the trail is hot toward Obama benefactor, George Soros, the billionaire who has handed over generous "tips" to the DNC, Democratic National Committee, AKA or A.K.A. the Democrats. There are but scant "Democratic" remnants within the fundamentally socialist DNC so most non-Democrats just call them,"the Democrats" or many other more colorful terms since they insist on riding rough-shod like wild stallions, over the wants and wishes of the American public, as a whole. Several polls have become increasingly critical of wasteful, pork-barrel spending, health care laws benefiting illegal aliens in court, cap and tax, so-called European style value added tax or V.A.T or just "VAT" and other Draconian, tyrannical, write-it-as-you-like-it legislation which totally ignores reasonable opposition, suggestions, ideas, and most non-Democrat talk altogether. The general population who ignores the lies and Democrat administration-can-do-no-wrong "reporting" that has been passing lately for "journalism".
To wit, George Soros bought into Brazilian oil interests by about $900 million and stands to gain when shutting down deep oil Gulf drilling drives the special rigs over to Brazillian waters where they will earn billions for Soros. Hugo Chavez has already confiscated several H and Payne oil rigs in nationalizing them for socialist Venezuela. Will Chavez sell the rigs to benefit Soros' investment allegedly even more?
It is a truly tyrannical move to shut down oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, especially when Mexico, Viet Nam, China and other countries will keep right on drilling as they please. The USA has no authority to shut THEM down, only hurt American oil and American jobs with this vicious, mindlessly malevolent move. Perhaps that is why the first judge on the case allowed drilling. After all, these companies have paid Uncle Sam, the US of A, for the lease and the right to drill and profit from the oil...and MAY have to be given back all that money as in reinbursed!
Certain Democrats, in their zeal to conquer, want to shut down the free speech of the opposition media completely. The old "Hush Rush" has become a close-minded long-running, attempt to shut down, Michael Savage, Brian Wilson (Beach Boy , song writer, composer, band leader), Michael Reagan, Dan Patrick (Texas Legislator), Mancow, Glenn Beck, Bill Cunningham, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, G. Gordon liddy, John Gibson, Lars Larson, Neal Boortz, Michael Medved, Michael Savage, Curtis Sliwa, Tom Sullivan, Michael Smerconish, Fred Thompson.Michael Barry, Ted Gunderson, Ann Coulter, Dick Morris, Outlaw Dave, and of course Rush Hudson Limbaugh,III. Not regulars as talk show hosts, Mike Huckabee and Sarah palin have long advocated,"Drill, Baby Drill" and even after the BP "accident" which allegedly looks like rocket cold-blooded murder much the way the John Kennedy,Jr looked suspiciously convienent, beneficial, and well-timed "destiny". A certain woman had allegedly become livid and explosively angry at finding out she was contested by a Kennedy and be deprived of her goal after "all she had done" allegedly to the American people.
Does it require a proverbial sealing wax scientist to see through the patchwork and smoke and mirrors that BP was allegedly or possibly convienently KOed on the surface or at the bottom. Were the hapless roughnecks and oil patch people allegedly hit with a rocket from a speedboat, then equally allegedly machine-gunned Nazi style when they clung to driftwood or tread water, or rescued, then massacred as dead men tell no tales? Were their bodies and body parts allegedly scooped up with long-handled nets, to be fed into tree mulching machines so that no trace would ever be found? People allege that it is an incredible coincidence that no trace of any victim has ever washed up, been found floating, or been found. Will the killer or killers meet a similar fate? Perish the thought that a blogger postulating a theory might meet a similar fate. Several copies of this are in safe deposit boxes, sent as email, and are filed offline as well as online. Thus "shooting the messenger" will serve no purpose except to ventilate rage. Far better for the purpetraiter(s) to "take out their anger" on their next contract. Especially since the blogger/offender/blabber/whistleblower cannot spell perpetraitor! Anyway, should the FBI be told...they would ignore as usual until told fifteen different ways, fifteen times with all sorts of detail suggesting proof might be "out there". We know for an alleged certainty that the US Navy or Coast Guard did not accidentally run over the BP rig in the fog or shoot them during an equally alleged training mission. Nevertheless, all sorts of scenarios come to mind. And this lonely blogger who blogs alone, I blog alone...cannot get over how massively convienent this oil spill has been, not to mention, mean, spiteful and of a straight-razor-toting mentality with all the deep-pockets-did-it-deep-pockets-will-pay and to Hell with the little guys hurt along the way!
To wit, George Soros bought into Brazilian oil interests by about $900 million and stands to gain when shutting down deep oil Gulf drilling drives the special rigs over to Brazillian waters where they will earn billions for Soros. Hugo Chavez has already confiscated several H and Payne oil rigs in nationalizing them for socialist Venezuela. Will Chavez sell the rigs to benefit Soros' investment allegedly even more?
It is a truly tyrannical move to shut down oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, especially when Mexico, Viet Nam, China and other countries will keep right on drilling as they please. The USA has no authority to shut THEM down, only hurt American oil and American jobs with this vicious, mindlessly malevolent move. Perhaps that is why the first judge on the case allowed drilling. After all, these companies have paid Uncle Sam, the US of A, for the lease and the right to drill and profit from the oil...and MAY have to be given back all that money as in reinbursed!
Certain Democrats, in their zeal to conquer, want to shut down the free speech of the opposition media completely. The old "Hush Rush" has become a close-minded long-running, attempt to shut down, Michael Savage, Brian Wilson (Beach Boy , song writer, composer, band leader), Michael Reagan, Dan Patrick (Texas Legislator), Mancow, Glenn Beck, Bill Cunningham, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, G. Gordon liddy, John Gibson, Lars Larson, Neal Boortz, Michael Medved, Michael Savage, Curtis Sliwa, Tom Sullivan, Michael Smerconish, Fred Thompson.Michael Barry, Ted Gunderson, Ann Coulter, Dick Morris, Outlaw Dave, and of course Rush Hudson Limbaugh,III. Not regulars as talk show hosts, Mike Huckabee and Sarah palin have long advocated,"Drill, Baby Drill" and even after the BP "accident" which allegedly looks like rocket cold-blooded murder much the way the John Kennedy,Jr looked suspiciously convienent, beneficial, and well-timed "destiny". A certain woman had allegedly become livid and explosively angry at finding out she was contested by a Kennedy and be deprived of her goal after "all she had done" allegedly to the American people.
Does it require a proverbial sealing wax scientist to see through the patchwork and smoke and mirrors that BP was allegedly or possibly convienently KOed on the surface or at the bottom. Were the hapless roughnecks and oil patch people allegedly hit with a rocket from a speedboat, then equally allegedly machine-gunned Nazi style when they clung to driftwood or tread water, or rescued, then massacred as dead men tell no tales? Were their bodies and body parts allegedly scooped up with long-handled nets, to be fed into tree mulching machines so that no trace would ever be found? People allege that it is an incredible coincidence that no trace of any victim has ever washed up, been found floating, or been found. Will the killer or killers meet a similar fate? Perish the thought that a blogger postulating a theory might meet a similar fate. Several copies of this are in safe deposit boxes, sent as email, and are filed offline as well as online. Thus "shooting the messenger" will serve no purpose except to ventilate rage. Far better for the purpetraiter(s) to "take out their anger" on their next contract. Especially since the blogger/offender/blabber/whistleblower cannot spell perpetraitor! Anyway, should the FBI be told...they would ignore as usual until told fifteen different ways, fifteen times with all sorts of detail suggesting proof might be "out there". We know for an alleged certainty that the US Navy or Coast Guard did not accidentally run over the BP rig in the fog or shoot them during an equally alleged training mission. Nevertheless, all sorts of scenarios come to mind. And this lonely blogger who blogs alone, I blog alone...cannot get over how massively convienent this oil spill has been, not to mention, mean, spiteful and of a straight-razor-toting mentality with all the deep-pockets-did-it-deep-pockets-will-pay and to Hell with the little guys hurt along the way!
Friday, September 21, 2007
AISI-IMHO-21Sep07
http://www.terrorismawareness.org/jimmy-carters-war/
The Jena 6 evidence is such: one has a criminal record, three were old enough under Louisianna law as adults...last week an appeals court decided that although the convicted guy was old enough, he was not old enough. So he got off.
The paleface was beaten by six people who knocked him eventually unconscious. Due to his condition at the hospital, the charges were attempted murder. Various concerned individuals, i.e. poverty pimps, have decided that although the courts have freed the guilty convicted...they are offended and hundreds of people have converged on poor little Jena Louisianna whereever in the heck that is! Most will wind up at Cashatta!
The guy Andrew Mayers in his #18 baby blue shirt, asked several questions of Sen. John F'ing* Kerry who tried to answer. Finally Mayers asked if Kerry was a member of Skull and Bones and the world fell in on him! Tasered on the ground...begging people to follow lest he be killed?
* duely earned the sobrequette or handle by cursing while in a foul mood during the 2004 campaign to impose a Socialist Democrat President on the people, as if Republicans are not Socialist enough in their own right.
Disruptive is disruptive! Andrew Mayer now has a nice story to go with his resume and a bit of fame as well. Not sure if the bull dyke did the tasing or the BRO who was offended by the guy using "owned language" without the pigmentation to authorize it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c Evan Sayet's,"How Modern Liberals Think"
Now Demys are STILL trying to stuff the "Bad Dream Act" down the collective throats of the American people.
48 states have already passed laws to eliminate free tuition for illegals to college.
A POX on the nitwit(s) who wrote this travesty and all of his (Their) heirs unto the 30th millinium!
Democrats! They have splurged long and hard just as they did for Reagan. When tax cuts give the economy a shot in the arm and the money just keeps on ROLLING IN, the Democrats feel they have to get rid of it or the deficit will diminish and the Republicans will have "feathers in their caps" or major accomplishments for passing tax cuts!
Indians did not have their own country like Texans. Uninforced Immigration laws are giving Mexicans an ad-hock license to over-run MY country.
Maybe you don't think much of America, like most Congress persons, but I think the borders, language AND culture of the freest Democracy to exist in the history of the world are well worth preserving.
http://www.terrorismawareness.org/jimmy-carters-war/
Inspiration: "The World's Best Quotes in 1-10 Words."
I've collected thousands of inspirational quotes. It seems that nearly everything that can be said, has been said, simply and eloquently, in a way that can seldom be improved. Winston Churchill wrote, "Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all." So, I collected "The world's best quotes in one to ten words." These are the quotes, and my comments:
Love. —The Prophets
Jesus, Gandhi, Buddha. All the world's religious saints and prophets hold love as a central value, the glue that anchors the universe.
We hear, "Love makes the world go round," and "Love heals all wounds." These are familiar themes: love of friends, ideas, and self. Love of God and of country. Even love of life itself. If I could only have one word for all eternity, love would be my choice.
Know thyself. —Socrates
In college I studied philosophy under Professor Don Crosby, and met Socrates early. In career development, self-knowledge is everything. In a career, you can be two or three degrees off course and walk into a wall, instead of through a doorway. You don't have to be far off to have it fail.
Career unhappiness often results from lack of focus, and lack of focus stems from limited self-knowledge. But self-knowledge takes time, introspection, and effort. So it's easy to avoid.
Inches make champions. —Vince Lombardi
Under Vincent Thomas Lombardi's direction, the Green Bay Packers collected six division titles, five NFL championships, two Super Bowls, and record of 98-30-4. Lombardi knew a lot about winning. If football is a game of inches, so is career success. In the competitive world, you seldom win by a landslide.
Buzz Sullivan, my high school diving coach, told me, "A champion is someone who goes so far they can't go another inch—and then they go that inch." I wondered why that was important. Now I know. Winning in business or in personal life is all about inches: going small distances successfully, then going farther still.
Nothing gold can stay. —Robert Frost
We are swamped in change. And we had better get used to it, or at least figure out how to deal with it. In our parents' day, career change was uncommon. The norm was lifetime employment. Now CAREER = CHANGE. You'll have five careers in a lifetime, maybe six. Perhaps you'll do part-time, project, interim, or consulting work. And even if you're in your ideal dream job today, that might change tomorrow. Nothing gold can stay.
Martin Bucco taught English literature at Colorado State University, and first brought my attention to what words could mean. Bucco spoke of what he called "the great dead minds," those who have come before us and written their thoughts. He also said, "Time in life is short. You can only read so many books, so choose wisely." We spent many classes unwrapping Robert Frost's genius, and this is one of the poems that hit home:
NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY — by Robert Frost
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Work is love made visible. —Kahlil Gibran
About 80% of people are unhappy at work, and 20% are happy. Our culture has separated work from passion, and taught us to prefer a higher paycheck to higher happiness. That mistake costs us our souls. The goal of career development is to uncover one's gifts and passions, and to link them to the practical needs of the world. We call that "being in the right place," "finding a good fit," or "making the best use of one's talents."
In What Color Is Your Parachute? my mentor, Dick Bolles, quotes Fred Buechner, who writes, "There are all different kinds of voices calling you to all different kinds of work . . . (and) the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." [2001 Edition, page 57.]
High compensation and high happiness are not incompatible. It's not that we shouldn't seek money, and lots of it; many of our clients do. But we should first seek to love, or at least to like, what we're doing. That's the realization of our highest calling.
No great thing is created suddenly. —Epictetus (A.D.200)
We live in a McDonald's culture. We want everything instantly and without effort. And we bristle when others around us appear to be getting more, sooner. Waiting for rewards or results is out of favor. It is so uncool.
Many things are created suddenly: the two-day house makeovers on HOME & GARDEN TELEVISION, for example, but they aren't great. They are adequate, functional, or practical improvements. Greatness requires thought and time, effort and sacrifice. Especially sacrifice.
Stellar careers aren't built overnight. Take the orthopedic surgeon, whose education extends 15 years past high school. Take the country western star on Grand Ole' Opry. Take the NFL quarterback or wide receiver, the CEOs, CFOs, and Vice Presidents of brand-name companies. Think about Edison, Einstein, or Galileo, or anyone else you might admire. None of them got there overnight.
Great careers are built upon hundreds of thousands of small efforts, undertaken daily, that eventually grow into a series of satisfying wins. An ad for Paul Masson Vineyards picturing a bottle of wine said, "Nothing good happens fast." I framed it, and hung it in my office.
Well done is better than well said. —Benjamin Franklin
This is a variation on "Actions speak louder than words" and on Shakespeare's superb quote, "Talkers are no good doers." An executive search consultant who recruited 500 bank presidents told me, "There are two kinds of candidates: tap dancers and superstars. Tap dancers go through the motions and superstars get the work done. I recruit the superstars."
No wind favors he who has no destined port. —Montaigne
The cliche, "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there," is valid. And many careers are broken by lack of direction. Corporations define this concept as having a mission or vision, and organizations lacking vision usually flounder. "Career Planning" speaks to the idea of creating a blueprint for your future. That is, having a goal, a destined port—fulfilling your destiny. Stephen R. Covey said it well in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People when he advised us to "Begin with the end in mind."
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. —Seneca
I've been there. You've been there. Sometimes life is hard. You hit a career roadblock or dead end. Nothing seems to be working. You're fired or laid off. Or worse yet, you and your spouse are both unemployed. It happens. And it happens more frequently than you might imagine, to good people, qualified candidates, because of circumstances beyond their control. I like Churchill's words, "Never give in, never, never, never, never; in nothing, great or small—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense." And I especially like the quote by Edmund Burke, who said: "Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
—Peter Drucker.
It's so easy to do what's familiar, comfortable, or fun. It's so difficult, sometimes, to tackle the highest priority. And sometimes it's difficult to even know your top priorities; hence, the phrase, "I can't see the forest for the trees."
We suffer from over-choice: 67 varieties of toothpaste, 487 styles of shoes, 186 brands of cell phones with 137 telephone companies. We demand more variety than we could possibly need or want; and as a result, we get lost in options, opportunities, and choices. There are 87 varieties of lawyers, and 75 specialties inside medicine. The world of work can be a confusing landscape.
When you're flooded with career possibilities, or "swimming up Niagara Falls," it's good to spend time answering questions like, "What is the best and highest use of my talents?" and, "How can I make a bigger impact?"
If you can't establish clear career priorities by yourself, use friends and business acquaintances as a sounding board. They will want to help. Ask them to help you determine your "first things" and "second things." Or seek an outside coach or advisor to help you focus. Because if you don't know what your "first things" are, you simply can't do them FIRST.
Your friend,
Chavez Repeats 'Devil' Comment at Harlem Event
Thursday, September 21, 2006
NEW YORK — Venezuelan Communist President Hugo Chavez, made an appearance Thursday at a Harlem Church for an oil-for-poor event, repeated his 'devil' reference barfed up a day earlier at President Bush during a speech of September 20th, at the United Nations where foreign dignitaries who hate Bush cheered.
"They told me that I should be careful after I called him the devil — and I think he is the devil — because he might kill me" Chavez told a crowd packed into the Mount Olivet Baptist Church in Harlem.
"But, I place myself in the hands of God," he said. Onlookers stood in awe of the bravery of a man who could poor-mouth a leader in the leader's own USA and not be gunned down like an activist in a Communist country. This probably says more for the USA than for somebody "popping off" who knows he is safe because the USA is protecting his "sorry rear end" from Venezuelan refugees who would ,indeed, like to "fill the dictator of their country, how you say,"FULL OF LEAD!"
Hugo Chavez, who was introduced to speak by activist-actor Danny Glover, was visiting the Harlem church as part of ceremonies to announce the selling of discounted home heating oil to qualified low-income families. How much income disqualifies makes it a "welfare" deal.
The appearance occurred just ONE day after Chavez delivered an insult-riddled speech at the U.N. General Assembly in which he called President Bush the 'devil.' and Chavez wasn't talking about "A Devil With a Blue Dress On".
As Chavez gave his speech in Harlem, U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel ranted robusquely against the Communist Venezuelan leader.for choosing Rangel's New York congressional district to attack George W. Bush, the president of the United States of America before it becomes the 17th state of Mexico which already calls itself, "The United States of Mexico" in preparation for that day..
"You don't come into my country, you don't come into my congressional district and criticize my president, " Charles Rangel declared from Washington's Capitol Hill.
Rangel added that "it would be crazy to think that Americans do not feel offended" by Communist Dictator Hugo Chavez's loaded vetriolic remarks.
New York Governor George Pataki gave a speech somewhere which called for "a united front by Americans from all political parties to stand together against Chavez".
"This person has no right coming to our country to criticize our president," New York Governor George Pataki said in a telephone interview on FOX News.
"He can take his cheap oil and do something for the poor people of Venezuela." A hot oil enema comes to mind but New York Governor George Pataki did not mention the enema that would "clear the mind" of Hugo Chavez.
That same day, in Harlem, the crowd chanted in Spanish, "Chavez, Chavez, the people are with you," as he walked into the church dressed in his signature red shirt.
Hugo Chavez named President George W. Bush a "sick man" who was "very dangerous because he has so much power."
As Chavez had previously done at the U.N. Assembly speech, Chavez again waved a copy of the book, "Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance," written by American leftist writer Noam Chomsky, and at one point digressed from his long, Bill Clinton-style rambling talk to read passages aloud.
In several instances Chavez attempted to make the point that he was a good friend of Americans, and that the Bush administration was demonizing him as the low-down-hugging-the-ground-snake-in-the-grass-horse's rear-end-enemy.
"I pray that the American people will elect a president we can negotiate with," Chavez said, not naming any presidential contenders of the Democrat Party and asserting that he loved the American people, but that it was difficult for him to visit the U.S. because he was "threatened." If the scum-sucking-bottom-feeding-low-life had, in fact, been threatened,"The New York Times" would have made a HEADLINE of this as perhaps,"The Story of the Week". So this did NOT happen.
The Venezuelan Communist Dictator strongman mentioned his alliance with Cuba, a country he said had "been choked" by the U.S., and of his close friendship with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Chavez said their (economic and social) cooperation had improved the lives of Cubans and Venezuelans alike.
The event is but one of a series intended to promote the Venezuelan leader's popularity in the U.S. It was organized by Citgo, a Houston-based energy company that is wholy owned and carefully controlled by the Venezuelan Communist government.
Citgo, bought out from Southland Corporation, is in a partnership with Citizens Energy, a program operated by former U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy II. The program sells and distributes discounted home heating oil to certain low enough low-income families as a welfare program.
Venezuelan officials and Citgo employees passed out T-shirts immediately before the event with the name of the program,"From The Venezuelan Heart To The U.S. Hearths", emblazoned across the T-shirts' fronts.
Chavez made an unsubstantiated claim the Citgo program would eventually benefit over 450,000 American families during the winter months, and that it was made feasably possible and do-able because the program eliminates out the "greedy capitalist element" which is called,"The Middle-Man".
"That's another thing we're doing with this Bolivarian Revolution," he said referring to the name he has given his economic platform many hold is a big insult to the name of heroic Simon Bolivar. Chavez said,"We're transferring the power to the people."
Long Tiger Says: September 21st, 2007 at 10:55 pm
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The Jena 6 evidence is such: one has a criminal record, three were old enough under Louisianna law as adults...last week an appeals court decided that although the convicted guy was old enough, he was not old enough. So he got off.
The paleface was beaten by six people who knocked him eventually unconscious. Due to his condition at the hospital, the charges were attempted murder. Various concerned individuals, i.e. poverty pimps, have decided that although the courts have freed the guilty convicted...they are offended and hundreds of people have converged on poor little Jena Louisianna whereever in the heck that is! Most will wind up at Cashatta!
The guy Andrew Mayers in his #18 baby blue shirt, asked several questions of Sen. John F'ing* Kerry who tried to answer. Finally Mayers asked if Kerry was a member of Skull and Bones and the world fell in on him! Tasered on the ground...begging people to follow lest he be killed?
* duely earned the sobrequette or handle by cursing while in a foul mood during the 2004 campaign to impose a Socialist Democrat President on the people, as if Republicans are not Socialist enough in their own right.
Disruptive is disruptive! Andrew Mayer now has a nice story to go with his resume and a bit of fame as well. Not sure if the bull dyke did the tasing or the BRO who was offended by the guy using "owned language" without the pigmentation to authorize it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c Evan Sayet's,"How Modern Liberals Think"
Now Demys are STILL trying to stuff the "Bad Dream Act" down the collective throats of the American people.
48 states have already passed laws to eliminate free tuition for illegals to college.
A POX on the nitwit(s) who wrote this travesty and all of his (Their) heirs unto the 30th millinium!
Democrats! They have splurged long and hard just as they did for Reagan. When tax cuts give the economy a shot in the arm and the money just keeps on ROLLING IN, the Democrats feel they have to get rid of it or the deficit will diminish and the Republicans will have "feathers in their caps" or major accomplishments for passing tax cuts!
Indians did not have their own country like Texans. Uninforced Immigration laws are giving Mexicans an ad-hock license to over-run MY country.
Maybe you don't think much of America, like most Congress persons, but I think the borders, language AND culture of the freest Democracy to exist in the history of the world are well worth preserving.
http://www.terrorismawareness.org/jimmy-carters-war/
Inspiration: "The World's Best Quotes in 1-10 Words."
I've collected thousands of inspirational quotes. It seems that nearly everything that can be said, has been said, simply and eloquently, in a way that can seldom be improved. Winston Churchill wrote, "Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all." So, I collected "The world's best quotes in one to ten words." These are the quotes, and my comments:
Love. —The Prophets
Jesus, Gandhi, Buddha. All the world's religious saints and prophets hold love as a central value, the glue that anchors the universe.
We hear, "Love makes the world go round," and "Love heals all wounds." These are familiar themes: love of friends, ideas, and self. Love of God and of country. Even love of life itself. If I could only have one word for all eternity, love would be my choice.
Know thyself. —Socrates
In college I studied philosophy under Professor Don Crosby, and met Socrates early. In career development, self-knowledge is everything. In a career, you can be two or three degrees off course and walk into a wall, instead of through a doorway. You don't have to be far off to have it fail.
Career unhappiness often results from lack of focus, and lack of focus stems from limited self-knowledge. But self-knowledge takes time, introspection, and effort. So it's easy to avoid.
Inches make champions. —Vince Lombardi
Under Vincent Thomas Lombardi's direction, the Green Bay Packers collected six division titles, five NFL championships, two Super Bowls, and record of 98-30-4. Lombardi knew a lot about winning. If football is a game of inches, so is career success. In the competitive world, you seldom win by a landslide.
Buzz Sullivan, my high school diving coach, told me, "A champion is someone who goes so far they can't go another inch—and then they go that inch." I wondered why that was important. Now I know. Winning in business or in personal life is all about inches: going small distances successfully, then going farther still.
Nothing gold can stay. —Robert Frost
We are swamped in change. And we had better get used to it, or at least figure out how to deal with it. In our parents' day, career change was uncommon. The norm was lifetime employment. Now CAREER = CHANGE. You'll have five careers in a lifetime, maybe six. Perhaps you'll do part-time, project, interim, or consulting work. And even if you're in your ideal dream job today, that might change tomorrow. Nothing gold can stay.
Martin Bucco taught English literature at Colorado State University, and first brought my attention to what words could mean. Bucco spoke of what he called "the great dead minds," those who have come before us and written their thoughts. He also said, "Time in life is short. You can only read so many books, so choose wisely." We spent many classes unwrapping Robert Frost's genius, and this is one of the poems that hit home:
NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY — by Robert Frost
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Work is love made visible. —Kahlil Gibran
About 80% of people are unhappy at work, and 20% are happy. Our culture has separated work from passion, and taught us to prefer a higher paycheck to higher happiness. That mistake costs us our souls. The goal of career development is to uncover one's gifts and passions, and to link them to the practical needs of the world. We call that "being in the right place," "finding a good fit," or "making the best use of one's talents."
In What Color Is Your Parachute? my mentor, Dick Bolles, quotes Fred Buechner, who writes, "There are all different kinds of voices calling you to all different kinds of work . . . (and) the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." [2001 Edition, page 57.]
High compensation and high happiness are not incompatible. It's not that we shouldn't seek money, and lots of it; many of our clients do. But we should first seek to love, or at least to like, what we're doing. That's the realization of our highest calling.
No great thing is created suddenly. —Epictetus (A.D.200)
We live in a McDonald's culture. We want everything instantly and without effort. And we bristle when others around us appear to be getting more, sooner. Waiting for rewards or results is out of favor. It is so uncool.
Many things are created suddenly: the two-day house makeovers on HOME & GARDEN TELEVISION, for example, but they aren't great. They are adequate, functional, or practical improvements. Greatness requires thought and time, effort and sacrifice. Especially sacrifice.
Stellar careers aren't built overnight. Take the orthopedic surgeon, whose education extends 15 years past high school. Take the country western star on Grand Ole' Opry. Take the NFL quarterback or wide receiver, the CEOs, CFOs, and Vice Presidents of brand-name companies. Think about Edison, Einstein, or Galileo, or anyone else you might admire. None of them got there overnight.
Great careers are built upon hundreds of thousands of small efforts, undertaken daily, that eventually grow into a series of satisfying wins. An ad for Paul Masson Vineyards picturing a bottle of wine said, "Nothing good happens fast." I framed it, and hung it in my office.
Well done is better than well said. —Benjamin Franklin
This is a variation on "Actions speak louder than words" and on Shakespeare's superb quote, "Talkers are no good doers." An executive search consultant who recruited 500 bank presidents told me, "There are two kinds of candidates: tap dancers and superstars. Tap dancers go through the motions and superstars get the work done. I recruit the superstars."
No wind favors he who has no destined port. —Montaigne
The cliche, "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there," is valid. And many careers are broken by lack of direction. Corporations define this concept as having a mission or vision, and organizations lacking vision usually flounder. "Career Planning" speaks to the idea of creating a blueprint for your future. That is, having a goal, a destined port—fulfilling your destiny. Stephen R. Covey said it well in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People when he advised us to "Begin with the end in mind."
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. —Seneca
I've been there. You've been there. Sometimes life is hard. You hit a career roadblock or dead end. Nothing seems to be working. You're fired or laid off. Or worse yet, you and your spouse are both unemployed. It happens. And it happens more frequently than you might imagine, to good people, qualified candidates, because of circumstances beyond their control. I like Churchill's words, "Never give in, never, never, never, never; in nothing, great or small—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense." And I especially like the quote by Edmund Burke, who said: "Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
—Peter Drucker.
It's so easy to do what's familiar, comfortable, or fun. It's so difficult, sometimes, to tackle the highest priority. And sometimes it's difficult to even know your top priorities; hence, the phrase, "I can't see the forest for the trees."
We suffer from over-choice: 67 varieties of toothpaste, 487 styles of shoes, 186 brands of cell phones with 137 telephone companies. We demand more variety than we could possibly need or want; and as a result, we get lost in options, opportunities, and choices. There are 87 varieties of lawyers, and 75 specialties inside medicine. The world of work can be a confusing landscape.
When you're flooded with career possibilities, or "swimming up Niagara Falls," it's good to spend time answering questions like, "What is the best and highest use of my talents?" and, "How can I make a bigger impact?"
If you can't establish clear career priorities by yourself, use friends and business acquaintances as a sounding board. They will want to help. Ask them to help you determine your "first things" and "second things." Or seek an outside coach or advisor to help you focus. Because if you don't know what your "first things" are, you simply can't do them FIRST.
Your friend,
Chavez Repeats 'Devil' Comment at Harlem Event
Thursday, September 21, 2006
NEW YORK — Venezuelan Communist President Hugo Chavez, made an appearance Thursday at a Harlem Church for an oil-for-poor event, repeated his 'devil' reference barfed up a day earlier at President Bush during a speech of September 20th, at the United Nations where foreign dignitaries who hate Bush cheered.
"They told me that I should be careful after I called him the devil — and I think he is the devil — because he might kill me" Chavez told a crowd packed into the Mount Olivet Baptist Church in Harlem.
"But, I place myself in the hands of God," he said. Onlookers stood in awe of the bravery of a man who could poor-mouth a leader in the leader's own USA and not be gunned down like an activist in a Communist country. This probably says more for the USA than for somebody "popping off" who knows he is safe because the USA is protecting his "sorry rear end" from Venezuelan refugees who would ,indeed, like to "fill the dictator of their country, how you say,"FULL OF LEAD!"
Hugo Chavez, who was introduced to speak by activist-actor Danny Glover, was visiting the Harlem church as part of ceremonies to announce the selling of discounted home heating oil to qualified low-income families. How much income disqualifies makes it a "welfare" deal.
The appearance occurred just ONE day after Chavez delivered an insult-riddled speech at the U.N. General Assembly in which he called President Bush the 'devil.' and Chavez wasn't talking about "A Devil With a Blue Dress On".
As Chavez gave his speech in Harlem, U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel ranted robusquely against the Communist Venezuelan leader.for choosing Rangel's New York congressional district to attack George W. Bush, the president of the United States of America before it becomes the 17th state of Mexico which already calls itself, "The United States of Mexico" in preparation for that day..
"You don't come into my country, you don't come into my congressional district and criticize my president, " Charles Rangel declared from Washington's Capitol Hill.
Rangel added that "it would be crazy to think that Americans do not feel offended" by Communist Dictator Hugo Chavez's loaded vetriolic remarks.
New York Governor George Pataki gave a speech somewhere which called for "a united front by Americans from all political parties to stand together against Chavez".
"This person has no right coming to our country to criticize our president," New York Governor George Pataki said in a telephone interview on FOX News.
"He can take his cheap oil and do something for the poor people of Venezuela." A hot oil enema comes to mind but New York Governor George Pataki did not mention the enema that would "clear the mind" of Hugo Chavez.
That same day, in Harlem, the crowd chanted in Spanish, "Chavez, Chavez, the people are with you," as he walked into the church dressed in his signature red shirt.
Hugo Chavez named President George W. Bush a "sick man" who was "very dangerous because he has so much power."
As Chavez had previously done at the U.N. Assembly speech, Chavez again waved a copy of the book, "Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance," written by American leftist writer Noam Chomsky, and at one point digressed from his long, Bill Clinton-style rambling talk to read passages aloud.
In several instances Chavez attempted to make the point that he was a good friend of Americans, and that the Bush administration was demonizing him as the low-down-hugging-the-ground-snake-in-the-grass-horse's rear-end-enemy.
"I pray that the American people will elect a president we can negotiate with," Chavez said, not naming any presidential contenders of the Democrat Party and asserting that he loved the American people, but that it was difficult for him to visit the U.S. because he was "threatened." If the scum-sucking-bottom-feeding-low-life had, in fact, been threatened,"The New York Times" would have made a HEADLINE of this as perhaps,"The Story of the Week". So this did NOT happen.
The Venezuelan Communist Dictator strongman mentioned his alliance with Cuba, a country he said had "been choked" by the U.S., and of his close friendship with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Chavez said their (economic and social) cooperation had improved the lives of Cubans and Venezuelans alike.
The event is but one of a series intended to promote the Venezuelan leader's popularity in the U.S. It was organized by Citgo, a Houston-based energy company that is wholy owned and carefully controlled by the Venezuelan Communist government.
Citgo, bought out from Southland Corporation, is in a partnership with Citizens Energy, a program operated by former U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy II. The program sells and distributes discounted home heating oil to certain low enough low-income families as a welfare program.
Venezuelan officials and Citgo employees passed out T-shirts immediately before the event with the name of the program,"From The Venezuelan Heart To The U.S. Hearths", emblazoned across the T-shirts' fronts.
Chavez made an unsubstantiated claim the Citgo program would eventually benefit over 450,000 American families during the winter months, and that it was made feasably possible and do-able because the program eliminates out the "greedy capitalist element" which is called,"The Middle-Man".
"That's another thing we're doing with this Bolivarian Revolution," he said referring to the name he has given his economic platform many hold is a big insult to the name of heroic Simon Bolivar. Chavez said,"We're transferring the power to the people."
Long Tiger Says: September 21st, 2007 at 10:55 pm
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