December 24, 2016
Christmas Eve EDM Style
My nephew wanted to walk around the neighborhood and look at Christmas lights, but it was kinda cold and I had to hurry…. but since he usually gets what he wants, I drove him instead.
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December 23, 2016
Charleston Gazette-Mail | Rick Wilson: Is kicking poor people a WV priority? (Gazette)
Below is an article by Rick Wilson of the Charleston-Gazette-Mail. I wanted to briefly add a few annotations. First, quite frankly, it’s nauseating when people use the financially downtrodden to blame for what ails our country. The United States would be a scary place if we lived under a true free market, laissez faire economy, I don’t purport to be a big government person.. but unfortunately, if left unchecked, many cooperations would exploit their workers more than they...
December 21, 2016
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December 19, 2016
Does Life Just Happen to Us? A Humanistic Perspective
I know some tease and are fervently opposed to my humanistic points of view… . but this is one of my favorite quotes by Prentice Mulford, who was not only a pivotal contributor to the New Thought movement but helped me to form my opinions on infinite intelligence. ” When you say to yourself, ‘I am going to have a pleasant visit or a pleasant journey,’ you are literally sending elements and forces ahead of your body...
December 17, 2016
What’s your excuse?
FOLLOW MY PROJECTS Your current circumstances don’t have to be your permanent circumstances. Whatever it is you want, you HAVE to be proactive in getting it. It doesn’t matter what it is, excuses and justifications just keep you separated from what’s rightfully yours. Ambition can not be bought, you have to create it for yourself. Excuses about age, money, health or anything else are just that, excuses. If you want to breeze through life then that’s your...
December 8, 2016
John Glenn, First American To Orbit The Earth, Dies At 95 In Columbus, OH: The Two-Way : NPR
The first American to orbit the Earth has died. John Glenn was the last surviving member of the original Mercury astronauts. He would later have a long political career as a U.S. senator, but that didn’t stop his pioneering ways. Glenn made history a second time in 1998, when he flew aboard the shuttle Discovery to become the oldest person to fly in space. Glenn was 95 when he died; he had been hospitalized in an Ohio State...
December 7, 2016
Repeat After Me: Your House is Not an Asset
After a decade of lost wealth, where will you go from here? In the popular Back to the Future movies, Marty McFly goes back in time, accidentally gets his mother to fall in love with him, and has to work with his future friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, to make things aright. If he doesn’t fix things-and learn from his mistakes-a different future will emerge where his parents don’t marry, and he never exists. The whole movie, Marty does...
December 5, 2016
Are You Settling for Less than You Deserve? Are You OK with Being Average?
I’ve been thinking a lot about “settling” and just letting yourself succumb to a life of mediocrity. What does that mean exactly? I think It means different things for different people. What I will say is that mediocrity is crowded.. but when you rise up to excellence you’ll find there is a lot of space. Are you satisfied with being mediocre? If you no longer desire mediocrity, you won’t be mediocre. Herein lies a subtle and disarming truth...
December 5, 2016
Hawaii snowfall: Parts of state receive weather warning – BBC News
Parts of the US state of Hawaii have received a winter weather warning, with up to three feet (90cm) of snow over the past few days. Weather experts say that it is not unusual for snow to fall in tropical Hawaii, but rarely has it fallen so heavily at such low altitudes. The snow is heaviest around two of the island’s highest peaks, Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa. Meteorologist Matt Foster told the Los Angeles Times that while...