Abstract: I expect to survive this mess we’re in… and while we’ll do what we must to get through the short term, here’s what I think we need to do now to prepare for what lays on the other side of trouble.
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Today is the seventh anniversary of 9/11. Below is reprint of the post I made one year ago today. Despite (or maybe because of?) another election cycle, nothing’s changed. I marveled, as I stood in a monster security line at O’Hare recently, that anyone is under the illusion that the TSA makes us safer. Reality [...]
What you’re reading isn’t partisan. It’s disgust. And disappointment, and hurt, and concern, and a host of other bad feelings. It’s not about the issues anymore, it’s about power, pure and simple, and Bush’s message tonight, in a very subtle yet very profound way, made it clear that at the highest level, our leaders are no longer pretending that it’s about anything else. (Dated content)
When we elevate the “values” of “fairness” and “niceness” above “quality” and “character,” we guarantee one thing: failure.
Polls shows McCain having erased Obama’s lead now that the Democrat has chosen Senator Biden as his running mate… to me, it seems that people are sensing something. From the perspective of someone who reads people during behavioral interviews, here’s what I’m seeing when I look at Obama: Issue: Economy Says: Break from the Reps; [...]
3 comments made yesterday were caught by my spam filter and, despite my attempt to de-spam them, have disappeared into spamland with 13 other messages about auto insurance. One was a well written critique of my recent post about CNN and the Founding Fathers, and 2 were very nice messages about the blog in general. [...]
CNN reports tonight on a survey done related to people’s opinions about the separation of church and state. A survey. 219 years after the ratification of the Constitution. In the midst of a “War on Terror” that’s being fought against theocracies. And it’s close: we’re still split almost 50/50 on whether the church should have [...]
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