OceansOfThought @ March 19, 2008 # Comments Off on On Why The Manager is Really the Problem
I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what’s said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make […]
OceansOfThought @ March 18, 2008 # One Comment
“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.” -Abraham Lincoln We are living in a renaissance, where everything that we know is changing and will change; in an era where all the old ivory towers are being assailed, no, lambasted with the fervor of the fires of our […]
OceansOfThought @ March 17, 2008 # 2 Comments
When i was young, my parents gave me this poem in a large poster that took up the side of my wall. I didn’t understand it and thought it was really …, weird. My surprise came where in my late forgetfulness of age when i found myself staring at the poem in my book of […]
OceansOfThought @ March 17, 2008 # 4 Comments
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. -Abraham Lincoln Humans it turns out, seem to have to be able to sense out something is wrong, but not always the ability to figure what is wrong; the reasons seems to be both social and a genetic […]
OceansOfThought @ March 17, 2008 # Comments Off on On Being Lazy About Religion
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. -Abraham Lincoln I know someone who often says (i paraphrase) ” I don’t like agnostics because that’s just being lazy.” Yes, the Lazy is his word, not mine. He usually explains that […]
OceansOfThought @ March 16, 2008 # 2 Comments
If General McClellan isn’t going to use his army, I’d like to borrow it for a time.- Abraham LincolnCivilian oversite of the armed forces has been one of the greatest boon in modern times, but like the joint chiefs, civilians should stay the hell out of the way when there is actually soldiering to be […]
OceansOfThought @ March 11, 2008 # Comments Off on On Goverment Allowed Monopolies and Bad Customer Service
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. -Abraham Lincoln Customer service is the first causality of congressional meddling with the freemarket system. How can I say this? Allowed monopolies (like utilities, cable companies) do a horrible job of customer service. Don’t think so? google “Comcast sucks.” Customer Service […]
OceansOfThought @ March 10, 2008 # Comments Off on On the Failure of Morality aka Hello Hypocrisy
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Abraham Lincoln. Perhaps I should have called this, the fall of the high and mighty. It has become a sad joke the number of politicians who rail against gay’s, who are themselves gay, who are disgusted by corruption who are […]
OceansOfThought @ March 5, 2008 # Comments Off on On Bidding for Government Contracts and Foreigners
A house divided against itself cannot stand. – Abraham Lincoln Northrop Grumman Corp. and European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Co., has (had) won a contract from the air force to build tankers. There is a pretty big outcry over this. Congress is upset. 50,000+ jobs are going to Europe, while 2000 stay (for GE). […]
OceansOfThought @ March 3, 2008 # 2 Comments
“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.” -Abraham Lincoln I’m not a slave to objectivity. I’m never quite sure what is means. And it means different things to […]