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Millions of Small Businesses Created or Saved!

June 12, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Edgelings.com » The Obama Surprise.

Indeed, you can make the case that the sole contribution the Obama administration has made to entrepreneurship in America to date is to force all of those millions of unemployed people to desperately set up their own businesses in order to survive.

This doesn’t even take into account how much entrepreneurship in general is damaged when companies deemed “too big to fail” are bailed out, effectively guaranteeing market share where there has already been market rejection.

But here’s my favorite part…

High tech CEOs are supposed to be the smartest people you’ve ever met. And most of them are. But when it comes to politics and dealing inside the Beltway, experience has taught me that these men and women are fools, dupes and rubes – and too arrogant to realize it. They thought they were electing one of them, and someone pliable enough to help them succeed while at the same time crushing their competition.

It’s kind of ironic. These guys should know better than anyone that catchy slogans don’t cut it…you have to bring the goods.

It’s Not The Economy Bob!

June 9, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Bob Dylan has canceled his show in Knoxville due to low ticket sales:

Snider declined to reveal how many tickets were sold but said the number was too low to rely on last-minute ticket purchases to save the show.

“It’s just sort of tough times economically, right now,” said Snider.

Yes, things are tough economically, but another reason ticket sales are low is because it’s the “Bob Dylan” concert. I saw Dylan at Smokies Stadium with Willie Nelson in 2004.  Dylan was horrible. He was two verses into “All Along the Watchtower” before I even recognized it. Waste of time and money.

Willie is always a tremendous show, and Mellencamp is a great show as well. I’ve only seen him once and walked away a fan. Actually, I walked away realizing how big of a fan I’d always been.

I didn’t buy tickets because Dylan was part of the show. Can’t justify giving money for him to take time away from two good acts.

And some breaking news for the KNS–Mellencamp dropped “Cougar” about 20 years ago. You got scooped!

Campaign Propaganda

June 8, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Here’s mine. Hope and Change have been monopolized and bastardized, so I figured I’d take a different angle. Vote for me, and I promise you’ll have plenty of fodder for second guessing and criticism.

goober

The Power of Federal Spending Compels You!

June 4, 2009 / / 0 Comments

S.C. Supreme Court orders governor to apply for stimulus money.

The court voted 5-0, with Justice Costa Pleicones concurring in a separate opinion, that the General Assembly had the authority in passing the state budget to order Sanford to apply for the money.

Just for giggles, it would be interesting to see what would happen to him if he still refused. The worst case scenario is that he’d be an automatic front runner for the GOP nomination in 2012.

Yeah, that’s pretty bad, but still…

HT Michael Silence

Blogging, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and More!

June 1, 2009 / / 2 Comments

From  No Silence Here.

Blogging is often cited in the obits of newspapers. Twittering is often cited in the obits of blogs. And now I’m hearing Facebook and MySpace cited as the killers of Twitter. Some soon-to-be freshmen in high school told me last week they’re not on blogs or Twitter. They’re strictly Facebook or MySpace.

And just wait for Wave to ramp up. I think it may eventually kill email, along with marginalizing all of these other communication tools. Ok, “kill” may be a strong word, but the future of communication definitely lies in a One-Stop-Shop, real time type of communication instead of these various distributed and semi-connected tools we’re using now.

In the future, every communication tool will be useful for 15 minutes.

Education, Health Care Summary

June 1, 2009 / / 0 Comments

From the Liberty Papers

Education is not one-size-fits-all. We need to stop pretending that we can make it so.

The same goes for healthcare.

It all boils down to choice, choice, choice. I wonder how many people would be mad if they all of a sudden only had one or two soft drinks to choose from. I bet we’d see some action on that issue!

Of course, there’s much more to the post, but that pretty much sums it up.

American Capitalism From The Outside Looking In

May 29, 2009 / / 0 Comments

American capitalism gone with a whimper – Pravda.Ru.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights.

That truth. It do hurt.

Meeting Efficiency As Contact Sport

May 28, 2009 / / 1 Comment

I’ve linked to this Seth Godin post about meeting efficiently before, but it was probably on Twitter. Here’s more than 140 characters worth…

I’ve noticed a typical script most meetings follow:

  • Lots of time spent waiting on people to arrive
  • Meeting then starts with people absent anyway
  • Issues are identified and discussed relatively quickly by the folks who were on time
  • Someone shows up late, and they inevitably want to rehash the issues that have been identified and discussed while they weren’t there.
  • Issues beyond the scope of the meeting are raised, usually by one of the people who was late.
  • At least one person feels the need to continue the meeting for the entirety of its scheduled time with “filler” material.

It all pays the same to me–just some things I’ve noticed over the last 15 years or so. What is strange is that this seems to be a relatively predictable situation, yet there haven’t been many attempts to correct it or make it more efficient.

Maybe if a fist fight or sumo wrestling match were scheduled to begin on time at the beginning and end of every meeting people would be anxious to get their on time and get the meeting over with as soon as possible?

I don’t know what the answer is, I’m just throwing ideas out there.

Money For Nothing – Inflation Explained

May 28, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Head over to The Liberty Papers for a great explanation of inflation and what you may be able to do about it.

Quick synopsis:

  • Higher prices are a result of inflation. The inflating occurs when the money is printed.
  • Inflation has a trickle down effect…sort of like sewage. Those who are close to the money when it is printed, (for instance, people who get paid to build roads through the Stimulus plan)  get to buy materials before prices rise, those who are further down the money food chain pay high prices.
  • If you think you are poor and oppressed now, just wait.

The primary misconception of inflation is that it merely is the rise in prices.  The news media encourages people to believe this, reporting the inflation rate in the same way it reports on changes in the weather, as if it is some natural phenomenon over which people have no control.

Definitely worth your time to read the entire article.

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