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Or maybe I should say:  misery loves company.
It is the nature of many, if not most, things to have a cycle.  The economy expands and the economy contracts. Global temperatures go up and global temperatures go down.  Breathe in, breathe out.  Nature at work.  That’s just the way it is.
Anyone who expects the economy to […]

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It seems some people are just looking for a fight these days.  They’ll take statements out of context, distort something that was said, or just hear words without thinking of their true meaning.  Here’s a current example:
A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon.
County commissioners were discussing problems with […]

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An old Chinese philosophy describes well the give and take, the ebb and flow, the constant change yet mutual interaction of many aspects of our lives, our environment, our universe.  It has a symbol we’ve all seen:

I was reminded of this by an article of Starbucks and their recent announcement about closing many stores.  Starbucks […]

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I could not believe what I was hearing:

In America, home of the FREE ENTERPRISE system that has made us such a great nation from the very beginning, there are now serious discussions about nationalizing oil refineries… not just wacko camera-seeking communists but an elected member of our Congress!
Right….
Like I trust our government to do a […]

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I’m of the opinion that the majority of our elected officials are politicians first and representatives second.  They are very good at saying they are there to serve you (and me) but their actions speak otherwise… they are really there to serve themselves (or their party).  That old saying is true:  actions speak louder than […]

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A friend sent me a link to an article which accentuates many good points about our economy and improvements in lifestyle over the past 25 years… things you seldom hear in the news.  Why not?  Does the mainstream mass media have an agenda?  Do they just not see the good news?  Are they trying to […]

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The sub-prime mortgage melt-down has wreaked havoc in financial markets, local communities, and the economy in general.  Headlines have blared about the abuses in the industry and search for those who caused it.  I suspect there is plenty of blame to go around.  Most fingers in the media point toward the mortgage companies.
You don’t hear […]

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It seems like common sense.  Stating a problem well… and correctly… can have an enormous impact on the solutions pursued and their level of success.  If the problem isn’t defined accurately, the proposed solutions might be appropriate for the definition… but not for the actual problem.  Any given solution might be executed well and perhaps […]

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Seems like many Americans suffer from a relatively short attention span.  I doubt they were born with this weakness, I’m thinking it’s the environment:

Too many fast food restaurants conditioning us to getting satisfaction quickly.
Constant interruption from text messages and cell phone calls.
Long, blaring TV commercials distracting us from the actual program’s story line.
Continual barrage of […]

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Why do celebrities have a spiteful habit of threatening to leave the U.S. if THEIR political candidate doesn’t win an election?  This happens all too regularly… and, of course, they never follow through.  But they certainly want you to listen to THEM because, God knows, they have more intelligence and greater depth of thought about […]

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