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HOW TO REACH YOUR GOALS |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 28 October 2011 |
A dream is a wish but a goal is a
dream with a plan and a deadline. - unknown
You probably have goals - things that you want to accomplish, things that
will feel satisfying to you; problems to solve that are vexing you, wonderful
consequences that you can create and enjoy.
What's the best way to reach those goals?
I had the opportunity to be on a call last week with Peter Gollwitzer of NYU, who
has done some excellent research on goal attainment. Much of what follows is
drawn from his research. It's solid, it's practical, and it works.
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THE SHAKESPEARE INSULT GENERATOR |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 28 October 2011 |
All of these words are insults Shakespeare (1564-1616) used
in his plays. Most were in common use,
but many are inventions of his own.
To generate a classic Shakespearean insult that will greatly
amuse your friends and bamboozle your dim-witted liberal adversaries, simply
combine one word from each of the three columns, prefaced with "You" - or
"Thou" if you're really into it.
Examples:
"You goatish ill-nurtured clotpole!"
"You spongy flat-mouthed foot-licker!"
"Thou impertinent clay-brained maggot-pie!"
With practice, you'll never run out of insults for which
there will be no come-back. You'll annoy liberals no end...
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HALF-FULL REPORT 10/21/11 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 21 October 2011 |
Rough justice. You've
all seen the phone camera pics
and videos. They are horrific, but
you can't have much sympathy for a murderous monster like Gaddafi. He got what he deserved - especially since he
was given a plethora of opportunities to safely leave Libya and live out his
days in comfortable exile. The choice to
end like this was his.
So Bush got Saddam and Zero will claim he got Gaddafi - even
though Marco
Rubio was right in observing that it was the Brits and French. The contrast in how they were "gotten" is,
however, instructive in the extreme.
That contrast is between the humane calm professionalism of
American soldiers pulling Saddam Hussein out of his spider hole, and the bloody
frenzy of ragtag Libyan rebels pulling Moammar Gaddafi out of his drain
pipe.
This is the difference between
civilization and barbarism, between democracy and mobocracy. It is tempting to say the difference is
reflected in that between the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street.
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THE REAL DEBATE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 20 October 2011 |
The most ridiculous part of the GOP candidate debate last
Tuesday night (10/17) in Vegas has been the hilariously irrelevant commentary on
it by much of punditry left and right.
So while everyone else is focusing on silliness like
claiming Perry is finished because he was a bully for interrupting Romney too
much, you and I are going to focus on the real debate that took place and draw
some substantive lessons from it.
First, load the full
debate transcript in another browser window so you can refer to any part of
it as we go along.
We'll start with this question: would you go to Vegas and put your entire wad
on one spin of the roulette wheel coming up red?
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OBAMA AND THE SINALOA DRUG CARTEL |
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Written by Dagny D'Anconia
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Friday, 21 October 2011 |
The evidence is mounting that the Fast and Furious gun giveaway was
orchestrated and/or initiated from the top of the Obama administration. Forbes
Magazine is calling it "Obama's
Watergate."
The Obama White House wants us to believe that they gave away enough guns to
equip a small army of narcoterrorists out of a simple error. We would have to
be pretty gullible to believe that.
We have to ask just what they intended to achieve by doing this. It was a
truly extravagant gift to the Sinaloa Federation Cartel.
It was not just expensive in tax dollars; it was expensive in political
capital, and it's so close to the 2012 election.
People don't give such expensive things away for nothing. The Obama people
must have expected something in return.
Consider the fact that Eric Holder, the Attorney General, and the Obama
Administration has a long and continuing pattern of giving gifts to the Sinaloa
Cartel:
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LET AMERICA BE AMERICA AGAIN |
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Written by Rick Perry
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Thursday, 20 October 2011 |
[This is the text of
Texas Governor Rick Perry's address to the Western Republican Leadership
Conference, delivered yesterday, October 19, at the Venetian Hotel in Las
Vegas.]
Thank you, Senator Huffman (Joan Huffman, TX).
It is special honor to be introduced by a state senator who has been a part
of creating policies in Texas that have led to jobs and opportunity, including
the sponsoring of a very important tort reform, our Loser Pays law.
I am joined today by my best friend and partner in life, someone who will
make a tremendous First Lady for this country, Anita Perry. And we are proud to
be joined today by our daughter, Sydney.
Being in the Venetian, I am reminded of the opening act of the Mark Wahlburg
movie "The Italian Job," where enterprising thieves escaped through the canals
of Venice after ransacking a safe full of gold... but enough about The Federal Reserve.
As Republican voters weigh the choice for president, they have an
opportunity to put forward a clear contrast with our current president. This is
not an election about small differences, it is about nothing less than a new
direction for our country.
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GAS AND INSANITY |
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Written by Matt Ridley
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Wednesday, 19 October 2011 |
Jesse Ausubel is a
soft-spoken academic ecologist at Rockefeller University in New York, not given
to hyperbole. So when I asked him about the future of natural gas, I was surprised by
the strength of his reply. "It's unstoppable," he says simply. Gas, he says,
will be the world's dominant fuel for most of the next century. Coal and
renewables will have to give way, while oil is used mainly for transport. Even
nuclear may have to wait in the wings.
One of the best things about
cheap gas is whom it annoys. The Russians and the Iranians hate it because they
thought they were going to corner the gas market in the coming decades. The
greens hate it because it destroys their argument that fossil fuels are going
to get more and more costly till even wind and solar power are competitive. The
nuclear industry ditto. The coal industry will be a big loser (incidentally, as
somebody who gets some income from coal, I declare that writing this article is
against my vested interest).
Little wonder a furious
attempt to blacken shale gas's reputation is under way, driven by an unlikely
alliance of big green, big coal, big nuclear and conventional gas producers.
The environmental objections to shale gas are almost comically fabricated or
exaggerated.
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WOULD YOU BORROW A LOT OF MONEY TO BECOME IGNORANT? |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 21 October 2011 |
Two of the most popular demands of the Occupy Wall
Street protesters are for "free college education," and "debt forgiveness" for student loans.
College students are not among those whom Marxist
revolutionary Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) called the "Wretched of the
Earth." These protesters demonstrate their "youthful idealism" by
demanding free stuff for themselves.
The collegians do have a beef. Many are discovering
that despite their very expensive educations, they are essentially
unemployable. (The unemployment rate among 2010 college grads is slightly
higher
than the national unemployment rate is now.)
Perhaps this is because their very expensive educations taught them so little
about the economic system they are protesting against. New
York Magazine discovered, when it polled 50 protesters in Zuccotti
Park, that most have no clue what the rich pay in taxes, how the federal
government spends its money, or what the SEC is supposed to do.
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THE BLACK REAGAN? |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Tuesday, 18 October 2011 |
A man half the country hadn't heard of a month ago
is the leading Republican candidate for president, according to three opinion
polls last week.
Businessman Herman Cain led former Massachusetts
Gov. Mitt Romney, 27 percent to 23 percent in an NBC/Wall
Street Journal poll published last Thursday (10/13). Mr. Cain led Mr. Romney, 30-22, in a PPP
survey that same day. A Rasmussen
poll showed Mr. Cain and Mr. Romney tied at 29 percent.
This is remarkable, because only 51 percent of
respondents in a Gallup poll Sept. 27 recognized Mr. Cain's name. If
these numbers hold, we'll witness something extraordinary in the history of
politics. Are we seeing the emergence of the Black Reagan?
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THE REVOLUTION WILL EAT ITS OWN |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Tuesday, 18 October 2011 |
The real villains in our economic crisis are those in the political class
who pandered to the voter by promising more in benefits to be paid for by
others. As more and more people lose their jobs, the
demand for government payments grows, making the situation worse and worse. The
U.S. government is spending roughly 40 percent more than it is taking in.
The simple fact is that the amount of explicit and
implicit debt that the United States and other governments have incurred cannot
and will not be paid back in full. The political class will try to cure the
debt mess with inflation, price controls, tax increases and confiscation, but
it will only make things worse.
As more
and more jobs and homes are destroyed by the debt crisis, the ranks of the
revolutionaries will grow until, finally, the new "peasants" realize that the
rich are gone and it is the political class who is responsible for the mess.
As Mr. Obama and many liberal Democrats embrace
the Wall Street protesters, I wonder if they have not only forgotten (or ever
knew) good economics, but also the lessons of history. Maximilien Robespierre,
a great orator, most certainly did not intend for himself to be guillotined as
he and his colleagues unleashed the Reign of Terror during the French
Revolution.
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WHY WE CAN CHANGE |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 21 October 2011 |
We've all had good times and bad, we all have
triumphs and regrets. These go with life's territory. Along with our sense of
self, our consciousness, our ability to choose, we also have a notion that we
can change how things are in our life.
How in the world do we come upon this notion?
More to the point: how is it that one person seems
to be able to learn and grow and change for the better through their
experiences - good or bad - while another person seems to be either weighed
down or remain unchanged through their experiences?
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THE DEMOCRAT DOZEN |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 21 October 2011 |
If you have any friends who voted
Democrat but have a difficult time intelligibly explaining why, give them this
list. They can then pick their reasons
from this Democrat Dozen.
1. I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies' profits of 4% on a
gallon of gas are obscene -- but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15%
isn't.
2. I voted Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job
of spending the money I earn than I would.
3. I voted Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine -- as long as
nobody is offended by it.
4. I voted Democrat because I'm way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I
know that my local police are all I need to protect me from
murderers and thieves, even though I'll be dead or mugged
way before they have time to respond.
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HALF-FULL REPORT 10/14/11 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 14 October 2011 |
The next GOP presidential candidate debate is four days from
now, Tuesday, October 18, in Vegas on CNN.
It will focus primarily albeit not exclusively on foreign policy.
I've been asked by friends of a particular candidate to
provide him with a private briefing on the most critical foreign policy issues
America faces. What follows is not the usual
HFR but a condensed summary of that briefing, which contains much of my Map of the Future talk at Rendezvous XI
last weekend.
Russia. Putin is an ersatz macho-man, all hat and no karovi.
Russia's navy is made of rust.
Russia's ill-trained army of drunkards couldn't conquer Romania. Russian male life expectancy is lower than
that of Bangladesh. Russia is a
mafiacracy with a doomed economy dependent on oil & gas exports that
fracking in Europe & the US will make uncompetitive. Do
svidanya.
China. No wives, no water, no banks - and a
hyper-dangerous military. Much of China
is uninhabited - deserts, mountains, and wastelands. Habitable China is about the size of the US
east of the Mississippi, with over a billion people squeezed into it. Northern
China is turning into a waterless dust bowl.
Scores of millions of Chinese men will never get married due to the
Chicom's idiotic one-child policy and resultant mass female infanticide.
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A TRIPLE CELEBRATION OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Wednesday, 12 October 2011 |
The
second week of October offers a triad of heroic anniversaries worth celebrating
by any admirer of Western Civilization.
Yesterday, October 11, was Charles Martel Day. Tomorrow, October 13, will be Margaret Thatcher Day. Today, of course, is Columbus Day, the 519th anniversary of his discovery of America -- which, we should note stayed discovered after him, unlike other claimants such as the Chinese or Vikings.
Columbus Day has become an opportunity for guilt-and-grievance mongers to bemoan the fate of the noble Indians at the hands of the evil White Man. So it is worth understanding that there were no Indians in America when Columbus discovered it.
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DEMOCRATS SMELL LIKE AN OPEN SEWER |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 13 October 2011 |
Ugly and pathetic. That's what you get when
you combine envy with desperation, and wrap them in hypocrisy.
Democrats envy and fear the Tea Party, a grassroots
movement that arose spontaneously after CNBC Editor Rick
Santelli's epic rant on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Feb.
19, 2009.
The Occupy Wall Street movement "has spread to more than 250 American
cities, more than a thousand countries," enthused ABC anchor Diane
Sawyer. That's remarkable, since there are only 195 countries on
Planet Earth (196 if you count Kosovo).
Ms. Sawyer's accuracy is rivaled by those
journalists who compare OWS protests to the Tea Party.
Tea Partiers cleaned up after themselves.
Garbage is strewn wherever OWS protesters march. The OWS encampment in Zuccotti
Park, reports the New York Post, smells
"like an open sewer -- with people urinating and defecating in public."
ABC
News reported Monday (10/10) that "Democrats Seek to Own ‘Occupy Wall
Street' Movement."
How appropriate.
The party of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Hussein Obama does
indeed smell like an open sewer.
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