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 […]
OceansOfThought @ February 27, 2008 # Comments Off on On The Respect of Language and Culture
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better. -Abraham Lincoln So while driving to work today, a radio station DJ wanted to find out who sang a song he liked. Long story short, it turned out the song was a mix of 3 languages,(french, spanish and an african language) which is […]
OceansOfThought @ February 22, 2008 # 4 Comments
“…that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” -Abraham Lincoln Hypocrisy does not mean you can’t sell your soul. How many […]
OceansOfThought @ February 20, 2008 # Comments Off on On What a Difference the Truth Makes
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have.- Abraham Lincoln I learned this week that being upfront, especially in a relationship doesn’t truly get heard, and often has to be repeated. When I […]
OceansOfThought @ February 11, 2008 # Comments Off on On Being a More than Number
With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. -Abraham Lincoln A friend of mine happened upon me while I was reading an article on IPv6 and asked what it entailed. I went on to explain that the present internet was running out of numbers (with network address translation I can’t see how, but let’s take […]
OceansOfThought @ February 10, 2008 # Comments Off on On The Desperation of Valentine’s Day
And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln It is true: men lead lives of quite desperation. That desperation is pain. We want lives of fulfillment, but we are wracked with guilt over past experience, saddled with baggage of lost […]
OceansOfThought @ January 28, 2008 # One Comment
Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came …. Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. – Abraham […]
OceansOfThought @ January 25, 2008 # 2 Comments
“To state the question more directly, are all the laws, but one, to go unexecuted, and the government itself go to pieces, lest that one be violated? Even in such a case, would not the official oath be broken, if the government should be overthrown, when it was believed that disregarding the single law, would […]
Skavian @ January 23, 2008 # One Comment
This will be short and sweet. Mostly because I have little time to actually expand upon it and I have to get back to working. Those of us who live in the US are very aware of the little blaring sirens of alarm telling us that things are wrong. We can’t go a day without […]