July 2012
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A Great Deal for Propane Unpurchased!
Boy am I lucky. But you could be a lot luckier than me.
It was like winning the lottery, or so it seemed. For the very first time I got a real letter from United Propane of Paducah, KY. Up until now getting a letter from the company had odds like winning the lottery. Heck I entered their customer service lottery unsuccessfully several times: Posted on website several times, snail mail via the...
November 2010
2 posts
My Veteran View
Veterans Day always seems a little strange to me. Like many of my age, I involuntarily served voluntarily. I know it’s Rah, Rah time for many good-hearted people who really want to celebrate our veterans. That’s good. But, it’s really hard to celebrate the veterans status that came about because of something we did that was dreadfully wrong even though some of what we did was...
Robert Reich: The Republican Recipe for An Anemic... →
Mitch McConnell says they are going to do everything they can to defeat Obama. Sounds like the Republicans really don’t care about creating jobs despite all the talk about taking the country back. Decrease spending? Not with an extended tax cut for the wealthy—the deficit will continue to grow. Remember, the Republicans killed the surplus that Clinton left and started the rapid growth...
October 2010
2 posts
Robert Reich: The Secret Big-Money Takeover of... →
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: the ultra rich are buying this country for their own interests. NONE of this is for the benefit of the poor and middle income people who often support these right wing tactics even though the outcomes work against their own interests.
robertreich:
Not only is income and wealth in America more concentrated in fewer hands than it’s been in...
September 2010
4 posts
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Two Paths: Fury and Rebellion OR Fix the Inequity →
We have a very vocal minority of people that is very angry about the current situation—the Republican Tea Party. As usual, their rage is fanned daily by those who stand to gain at their expense. We can follow that path of fear and rage; I think it leads to many hardships down the road.
Or, we can fix the problems—of course, we have to agree on what the problems are. Sure, some of it...
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The Odd Marriage of Christianity and Capitalism →
How many times do we have to talk about the dangers of accumulating wealth in this country. What dangers lurk?
squashed:
Many self-professed Christians have gotten pretty comfortable with a no-holds-barred free-market capitalism. In a bipolar world when the most visible alternative to our capitalism was an atheistic and totalitarian Communism, I can understand the temptation to cling to the...
Effective Visitor’s Centers. Providing a Small... →
This is an excellent rural and small town tourism blog.
Some of the key points:
That personal attention and anticipation of needs in a well run visitor center is something no Internet site can do for a town.
Your visitor center staff must be thoroughly trained in all services and attractions in your region.
Be sure your visitor center is easy to find.
Look closely at your hours. Are you open...
“I found this interesting. If you ever wondered which side of the fence you sit...”
– Well, first of all, if a Republican makes a list, apparently women don’t exist.
Also, how do you “choose” a job with health insurance? Have you tried looking for a job lately? Or God forbid you can only work part-time - you get royally screwed in terms of benefits. And you can’t just “shop for it”...
August 2010
14 posts
The Two Stories of This Terrible Economy, Yet...
Dems need to tell the story so people get it!
The public doesn’t understand specific policies but it does understand stories that link them together…If Obama and the Democrats would connect these dots they’d have a story that would make Americans’ hair stand on end. We’re in this mess because of big business and Wall Street. Government is needed to get us out of it.
It’s not that big...
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A "People's Tax Cut" →
Now here’s an idea being advanced by Robert Reich:
In addition to ending the Bush tax cut for the rich, put forward another proposal for growing the economy that cuts taxes on lower-income Americans.
Democrats should propose eliminating payroll taxes on the first $20,000 of income, and making up the revenue loss by applying payroll taxes to incomes above $250,000.
This would give the...
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They Did It Again!
After being violated—one of my websites was hacked, or should I say REMOVED—we got it all fixed, I thought, this morning. So did the support crew at LunarPages. We went to Columbia for a little shopping, had a great lunch at Tacos Express (highly recommended), and came home. The website had been hacked again.
We finally figured out that the hacker is from Nigeria. From the files...
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Just Bobbing Along
Some days feel like you’re just keeping your head above water: Busy but not all that productive doing necessary work. Maybe I’d be better off treading water in the cool waters of Swan Creek just down the bluff from my house.
It shouldn’t be this way, but it is. I had created a nice, interactive home page for Sugarcreekcarriages.com, but Microsoft’s web browser, Internet...
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I've Been Violated!
At least that what it feels like. I was preparing to go meet another website developer this morning to bring them up to speed on a website we’re working on and it had happened! Hacked!
All of the files were gone! I had known that someone was messing with the system for a couple of days. I had a message from the website host saying that they had found a dangerous file and disabled it. I...
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Awakening
There’s nothing as quite as exciting as the awakening of a group. Tonight we had a “gathering” of the local theater group to cast forth our visions of what could be. Our imaginations and hopes were stirred.
I used a dialogue technique called “Open Space Technology” to enable the group of twenty people or so to move to a deeper level of conversation. The method...
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I Wish It Were Easy
Building a mission statement—a bunch of words that somehow provide a foundation for an organization—that seems easy enough. But is it?
I’m looking now at three suggested mission statements for the Grinders Switch Foundation, a non profit organization in Hickman County, Tennessee. It supports the “cultural arts” of our area, including the Clay Harris Theater....
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The Real Business Planning
Business planning, something every business should do, sometimes gets lost in paperwork. Some people like paperwork, but for the life of me, I can’t imagine why. Maybe some people like to see other people do paperwork—like some of my school teachers! Others, like my friends at Sugar Creek Carriages, plan to make their business grow.
Planning is not about paperwork. The paperwork is...
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Vision - Getting It
The long view of what is to come, it’s a projection of known facts, believed trends, good guesses. Some people don’t project their views into the future; some people think they are good at it. A few get lucky. The path to the future is not a steady climb. Like a mountain trail, the path to the future has steep climbs, downhill slides, sheer cliffs, ledges, patches of ice, fordable...
The Way it Is
Today it’s hot. It’s in the upper 90s getting hotter tomorrow and even hotter the next day. The fog was heavy this morning. Old timers say a big fog in August means a big snow this winter. This is August; it’s supposed to be hot.
It’s been a busy morning. I got our car serviced at Mayberry’s and saw Omer. Omer planted an ungodly number of cantaloupes—Ambrosias,...
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The Recession in Thinking About the Future →
I’m convinced that Paul Krugman is an extremely smart man. I’m also convinced that he is sometimes a “Cassandra,” or at least we think he is. Time will tell.
Too often we get caught up in all the details of what is happening along with distracting emotions that seem to be driven by some underlying motive. Somehow this recession is starting to be seen like the tonics of...
