...no longer on the market ladies, sorry. When we said, "while supplies last", we meant it...
(the beat and the pics are off, but its hard to edit when you are laughing...BTW, these videos were funny at first, so I will be doing them for decades....decades after people stopped laughing)
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Slavery...
...I don't know this messenger, but what a great message (video below)
Until I moved back east, I didn't really understand "inner cities" problems. It seemed to me, out west, even the bad areas are better than back here. And if you are in a bad neighborhood, whether you live it it, or are just driving through, to 'escape', you can go in any direction a few blocks and its all better. Also, in many homes, the people inside those neighborhoods, look just like the people a few blocks away.
(LA is bad too, but maybe it just seems better because its sunny?)
...it ain't like that back here.
I work in the inner cities. Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Newark, Atlantic City, Philadelphia. They are all different. Some not as bad. But each has neighborhoods of massive housing project. "The projects." The Government traps these people in there. It offers free, or heavily subsidized rent. It offers them welfare that comes on a credit card, instead of jobs. It offers them free job training over and over again, as if any of us with jobs got them because we were pre-trained. It offers them free schooling - no matter what your grades.
It sucks the life out of them...the drive to succeed.
The free schooling sounds great, but in my experience it is another part of the trap. Its extremely hard to go back to school, at nights, at your own expense, to improve yourself. But that is the key, you are improving yourself. When somebody else is paying the bill, you can drop it anytime you want. And that is what happens. Its an excuse to a probation or parole officer as to why you don't work.
...not to mention - there are no grocery stores in these cities, but there is alot of fast food.
These people are trapped. The drug dealers even call their work and where they sell it - "the trap." Because they know, there is no escape...
h/t American Perspective
Until I moved back east, I didn't really understand "inner cities" problems. It seemed to me, out west, even the bad areas are better than back here. And if you are in a bad neighborhood, whether you live it it, or are just driving through, to 'escape', you can go in any direction a few blocks and its all better. Also, in many homes, the people inside those neighborhoods, look just like the people a few blocks away.
(LA is bad too, but maybe it just seems better because its sunny?)
...it ain't like that back here.
I work in the inner cities. Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Newark, Atlantic City, Philadelphia. They are all different. Some not as bad. But each has neighborhoods of massive housing project. "The projects." The Government traps these people in there. It offers free, or heavily subsidized rent. It offers them welfare that comes on a credit card, instead of jobs. It offers them free job training over and over again, as if any of us with jobs got them because we were pre-trained. It offers them free schooling - no matter what your grades.
It sucks the life out of them...the drive to succeed.
The free schooling sounds great, but in my experience it is another part of the trap. Its extremely hard to go back to school, at nights, at your own expense, to improve yourself. But that is the key, you are improving yourself. When somebody else is paying the bill, you can drop it anytime you want. And that is what happens. Its an excuse to a probation or parole officer as to why you don't work.
...not to mention - there are no grocery stores in these cities, but there is alot of fast food.
These people are trapped. The drug dealers even call their work and where they sell it - "the trap." Because they know, there is no escape...
h/t American Perspective
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Success...
"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser."
- Vince Lombardi
"I hate to lose more than I love to win."
- Jimmy Connors
I just read a book, Talent is Overrated -What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else. It explores the nature of "World Class Performers" in all areas - chess, science, business, sports, and more. It covers in detail how Mozart took 18 years, of professional full time training, forsaking 'normal education,' and most other pursuits, to compose an original masterpiece...how Tiger Woods, at age 19, after practicing golf with tremendous intensity, under professional teachers for 17 years, lost his match while representing the U.S. team in Walker Cup play.
Great performances, great performers, those who truly excel above the rest...get there from one thing.
...HARD WORK.
.
- Vince Lombardi
"I hate to lose more than I love to win."
- Jimmy Connors
I just read a book, Talent is Overrated -What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else. It explores the nature of "World Class Performers" in all areas - chess, science, business, sports, and more. It covers in detail how Mozart took 18 years, of professional full time training, forsaking 'normal education,' and most other pursuits, to compose an original masterpiece...how Tiger Woods, at age 19, after practicing golf with tremendous intensity, under professional teachers for 17 years, lost his match while representing the U.S. team in Walker Cup play.
Great performances, great performers, those who truly excel above the rest...get there from one thing.
...HARD WORK.
.
Monday, September 12, 2011
September 11, 2011...
The horrific events of Sunday, September 11, 2011, will haunt me until....next Sunday. America's Team was once again taken down by Jets. I don't want to name names, but TONY ROMO fumbled the ball on the goal line, and threw a pick with under a minute to go! Several prominent figures were overheard saying, "This, was a national tragedy, the likes of which we haven't seen since the Cowboy's opening game last year..."
And that's all I have to say about that...
I hope the American public does not think the intelligence community, the administration, or the media's response to 'credible threats' for the ten year anniversary was just 'the sky is falling.' A little west-coast-stay-at-home mom, who knows NOTHING about counter-terrorism, counter-intelligence, or anything much outside of...well I don't know anything she knows much about...but she said to me, "If I were a terrorist, I would strike when they least expected, not when they most expected." Me too. We need to be ready.
While there were many ceremonies in and around NYC, I was not able to attend any of them. I did watch a little TV early on Sunday morning, and that alone was difficult. I watched the ceremony in Shanksville, PA. There were some great speeches, and great acknowledgment of the magnitude of what happened on Flight 93.
Flight 93 only had 33 passengers on it, plus the four hijackers. But it had the right 33. The backgrounds and makeup of the passengers and surviving crew assured that the Muslim jihadis could not win.
It is apparent from phone calls that were made from Flight 93 at the time, that when the passengers were in the final stages of their plan to retake the plane, the terrorist pilot made some sharp maneuvers, jarring the passengers. Todd Beamer was on the phone with with GTE-Verizon operator supervisor Lisa Jefferson. He told her what the passengers were planning, and they prayed together. When the plane took a sharp dive, Todd yelled out "Lisa!" Jefferson responded, "I'm still here Todd." He wasn't talking to her, he was calling out for his wife, Lisa Beamer.
I would like to think that if I had been in that situation, I would have been as brave. I know two things for certain. One, I would have been yelling at everybody, "I told you I hate flying! I told you! I knew this would happen!"...and Two, I would be calling out for Mrs. Bannon...she is my everything.
And that's all I have to say about that...
I hope the American public does not think the intelligence community, the administration, or the media's response to 'credible threats' for the ten year anniversary was just 'the sky is falling.' A little west-coast-stay-at-home mom, who knows NOTHING about counter-terrorism, counter-intelligence, or anything much outside of...well I don't know anything she knows much about...but she said to me, "If I were a terrorist, I would strike when they least expected, not when they most expected." Me too. We need to be ready.
While there were many ceremonies in and around NYC, I was not able to attend any of them. I did watch a little TV early on Sunday morning, and that alone was difficult. I watched the ceremony in Shanksville, PA. There were some great speeches, and great acknowledgment of the magnitude of what happened on Flight 93.
Flight 93 only had 33 passengers on it, plus the four hijackers. But it had the right 33. The backgrounds and makeup of the passengers and surviving crew assured that the Muslim jihadis could not win.
It is apparent from phone calls that were made from Flight 93 at the time, that when the passengers were in the final stages of their plan to retake the plane, the terrorist pilot made some sharp maneuvers, jarring the passengers. Todd Beamer was on the phone with with GTE-Verizon operator supervisor Lisa Jefferson. He told her what the passengers were planning, and they prayed together. When the plane took a sharp dive, Todd yelled out "Lisa!" Jefferson responded, "I'm still here Todd." He wasn't talking to her, he was calling out for his wife, Lisa Beamer.
I would like to think that if I had been in that situation, I would have been as brave. I know two things for certain. One, I would have been yelling at everybody, "I told you I hate flying! I told you! I knew this would happen!"...and Two, I would be calling out for Mrs. Bannon...she is my everything.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Credible reporting...
...from Abbottabad has indicated that a certain person, formerly of this world, wanted his friends to strike on the ten year anniversary of 9/11.
I personally believe, that U.S. Americans . . . (anytime I start that sentence, it always goes that way)...
Let me try again.
Based on my training and experience, I think 9/11/11 will go off like Y2K. At midnight on 12/31/1999, Mrs. Bannon and I were just outside the city, looking at the city lights. While I had not prepared for anything, a part of me thought the lights would go out. Nothing happened.
Due to credible reporting...this weekend, I will be away from family, staged, ready to go do harm to bad guys. But mostly just - staged.
On 9/11, I was far away from the terror, and watched it on TV like most U.S. Americans. This time I'll be somewhere else, hopefully, just watching the city lights again...
Blog ya' on the other side...
UPDATE: We have a duty to report...
I personally believe, that U.S. Americans . . . (anytime I start that sentence, it always goes that way)...
Let me try again.
Based on my training and experience, I think 9/11/11 will go off like Y2K. At midnight on 12/31/1999, Mrs. Bannon and I were just outside the city, looking at the city lights. While I had not prepared for anything, a part of me thought the lights would go out. Nothing happened.
Due to credible reporting...this weekend, I will be away from family, staged, ready to go do harm to bad guys. But mostly just - staged.
On 9/11, I was far away from the terror, and watched it on TV like most U.S. Americans. This time I'll be somewhere else, hopefully, just watching the city lights again...
Blog ya' on the other side...
UPDATE: We have a duty to report...
Monday, September 5, 2011
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Gross Domestic Product
GDP.
It is a measure of a country's wealth, standard of living, and economy. A country's wealth is not determined by how much gold it has, or money it has in the bank, it is determined by the total amount of stuff it makes, sells, buys...economic activity.
GDP is relative to many things, and is only one of numerous factors. But this is the number many use to determine if we are in a "recession."
2 Quarters of negative GDP = recession. (Economists didn't want to getfired tied down to one number, so they also measure a recession as "a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production and wholesale-retail sales."
GDP = Private Spending + Gross Investment + Government Spending + Exports - Imports
GDP was .4% in January, February, March of this year.
GDP was 1% in April, May, June of this year.
Opinion: Is Obama responsible for the red in the chart? No. Is Obama responsible for the last two columns. Yes.
Roughly 70% of GDP comes from Private Spending (every single dollar we spend, rent, food, sneakers, vacation...)
In the last 40 years, Discretionary Spending as a percentage of GDP peaked at 13% (1968) and is much lower now. Discretionary Spending is the amount the government spends after "Mandatory Spending" like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Debt, etc.
So - if you were President. Would you think that your "Jobs Program" would focus on Consumer Spending or Government Spending?
This President doesn't even know how to save his own job - let alone yours.
It is a measure of a country's wealth, standard of living, and economy. A country's wealth is not determined by how much gold it has, or money it has in the bank, it is determined by the total amount of stuff it makes, sells, buys...economic activity.
GDP is relative to many things, and is only one of numerous factors. But this is the number many use to determine if we are in a "recession."
2 Quarters of negative GDP = recession. (Economists didn't want to get
GDP = Private Spending + Gross Investment + Government Spending + Exports - Imports
GDP was .4% in January, February, March of this year.
GDP was 1% in April, May, June of this year.
Opinion: Is Obama responsible for the red in the chart? No. Is Obama responsible for the last two columns. Yes.
Roughly 70% of GDP comes from Private Spending (every single dollar we spend, rent, food, sneakers, vacation...)
In the last 40 years, Discretionary Spending as a percentage of GDP peaked at 13% (1968) and is much lower now. Discretionary Spending is the amount the government spends after "Mandatory Spending" like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Debt, etc.
So - if you were President. Would you think that your "Jobs Program" would focus on Consumer Spending or Government Spending?
This President doesn't even know how to save his own job - let alone yours.
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