Back in the good ‘ol days when my brother Dave used to torture me for fun. He also had some good ideas. One such idea was to build a car powered by perpetual motion — something similar to that desk toy with the balls that just keep swinging back and forth. I still think eventually…
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You know the saying… in order to make money, you have to have money. It refers mostly to making money in real estate and the stock market. But Japanese billionaire Genshiro Kawamoto sees it a little differently. He believes that you need money to help people.
Some of you may remember a previous post on global warming. In recent weeks I’ve seen an enhanced interest in climate change and have experienced some additional arguments against the much trumpeted predicted catastrophic weather changes. Let me rephrase that… the weather changes could possibly be true, but the cause of these changes are far…
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Sometimes, incredibly profound things are said: When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. Now if we could just get the legislators to actually see this problem.
I’ve learned over the last several years that I’m more of an Independent than a Republican. I have almost always voted Republican based on moral issues, but in recent years I’ve watched the division of the American people become a drastic chasm with no apparent bridge in site. What has really frustrated me is that…
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I’ve never thought myself in need of The Seven Habits because I never saw myself in any type of management roll and assumed that it was specifically for business management. My new job is a much smaller company and there is more need for management at every level and so I decided to take the…
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Continuing on my goal to read/listen to all the Orson Scott Card books on Audible.com, I downloaded and listened to Songmaster. This was the first full book I enjoyed through my brand new iPod Nano. Of course I didn’t pay for it myself. I won it in a Novell giveaway (I almost called it a…
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So the new legislature is off to a solid start. They passed a bill which strips the pensions of legislators convicted of ethics violations. And it was unanimous! The whole bipartisan thing seems to be working out. One word…. duh! Nice work folks. Keep it up.
Wikipedia indicates that impeachment is often misunderstood and the constitution explains that: For the executive branch, only those who have allegedly committed “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors” may be impeached Now let’s look at what a recent article by Orson Scott Card said by highlighting an also recent Doonesbury cartoon:
Interesting quote from David Brin: It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. Now let’s put that in the light of what has been continually pushed by The Idealist. He says (and quotes scripture [D&C 121:39]) that…
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