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We are bludgeoned daily about eating right. Eat oatmeal, don’t eat bacon (a very sad statement), lots of fruit, lots of veggies, wash everything, eggs are bad, coffee is, I cannot remember whether coffee is good or bad right now. Same for milk…good to grow strong bones bad because of the fat, hormones, antibiotics, and cows are probably uncomfortable when the milk is “removed” from their udders.
Finally some research that we can use:
“The Russians had made one fatal mistake – they hadn’t cleared their message through Scot Harvath, and he was going to be damned if those lying communist bastards caused the collective head of the United States of America to bow even a fraction of an inch in deference to the new world order they planned to unleash. He’d been to Russia, and he’d seen what a shitty country it was. As far as he was concerned, they’d gained too much prominence on the world stage, and it wasn’t time for the United States to step back, it was time for someone to shove the Russians the hell off.”
I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore.
Dorothy Gale
As I thought about how to describe this book by author Joshua Cooper Ramo
A few months ago I posted about the first liberal alter, abortion. Now on Labor Day it seems appropriate to post my second installment about unions. I think that I have a pretty unique perspective on unions having grown up in a heavily unionized Pittsburgh area and raised by a very pro-union father yet I was never a member of a union. I certainly remember my father having to take turns on the picket line when his union went on strike and I remember many times when he could not cross other picket lines in support of other unions.
A famous philosophical puzzle asks the question whether a tree that falls in the forest makes any sound when there is no one around to hear it. As an engineer by education and thought I really did not enjoy these types of “core” classes in college even though they gave me a “well rounded” education. My philosophy class was perhaps the most tedious class ever and was dominated by seemingly endless discussions about what ifs and could be’s. Our bearded professor certainly looked the part and in many ways I was happy that at least one person with a degree in philosophy was gainfully employed in his profession.
A recent newspaper article made me think of a rather old Mel Gibson movie. Mad Max was filmed long before the ranting and raving Gibson of today or at least he had better P.R. people back then. Mad Max depicted a post-apocalyptic world of lawless gangs battling for what was left of valuable resources. Most of the memorable parts of the movie involved extreme highway chases using pumped up cars, trucks and motorcycles. Of course it was a story about good versus evil.
Secret Service Agent Scot Harvath is back tracking down bad guys (terrorists) who had responsibility for the president’s kidnapping as detailed in The Lions of Lucerne. Author Brad Thor again has written a gripping, exciting, attention-grabbing novel with Path of the Assassin
The strained relationship continues between lone-wolf Harvath and other United States’ agencies. Even with a common goal Harvath often is at odds with them as they try to capture or kill a mysterious silver-eyed assassin. In an unusual twist a group apparently turns the tables on Islamic terrorists by engaging in a determined campaign to seek vengeance using their own terrorist tactics.
Machiavelli’s The Prince is famous a written “instructions” to his superiors about how to rule effectively and often brutally. Many believe that Machiavelli was the brute, but he was really just the man behind the throne trying to avoid the fate (often death) of unstable rulers.
“…you’re doomed. Doomed to the middle. Doomed to be one of those who are acted upon, not one of those who act. That’s all right. We can take care of that. This book will take you by the shoulders, shake you, and make you begin to live your sorry life differently. To take stock of a situation and ask yourself, before you act: What would Machiavelli do? And the answer, in almost all cases, is: Whatever is necessary.”
News briefs are a collection of interesting news stories…
Brief 1: “The King is gone but he’s not forgotten. This is a story about Johnny Rotten. It’s better to burn out, cause rust never sleeps. The King is gone but he’s not forgotten.” Sometimes the left is so out in left field and it is fun to watch them try to “eat” one of their own only to have it thrown back in their face. Famed Sex Pistols front-man, Johnny Rotten apparently was criticized for planning a concert in of all places, Israel. It is very posh to be anti-Jewish and Pro-Palestinian on the left, but Mr. Rotten would have none of it;
This photo ran on The Drudge Report on August 30, 2010 contrasting the American President Obama and Russian Prime Minister Putin. God help us!
