OceansOfThought @ April 28, 2008 # Comments Off on On Parents and Future.
May our children and our children’s children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country,-Abraham Lincoln On the best of days my parents are difficult. Amung people i know, there are those that depend on their parents, and often times get along with them. Amung others, there […]
OceansOfThought @ April 24, 2008 # Comments Off on On Radical Islam and the Green Movement
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. – Abraham Lincoln In one of those laws of unintended consequences(a simple system cannot effectively control or predict a complex system), the green movement will pretty much define and complicate our interaction with the Middle East, […]
OceansOfThought @ April 23, 2008 # One Comment
“Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. […] The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing.” –Abraham Lincoln Economist are driven crazy by humans, and math doesn’t help. In a most amazing testament to the past strength […]
OceansOfThought @ April 21, 2008 # 2 Comments
I shall try to correct errors where shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views. –Abraham Lincoln And now, race. You ever notice that when you run across something on the internet, it’s a buzz. You suddenly start to notice it everywhere, it […]
OceansOfThought @ April 17, 2008 # Comments Off on On Curbing the Power of Multi-National Corporations
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. -Abraham Lincoln Multi national is the new monopoly. Traditional […]
OceansOfThought @ April 16, 2008 # 4 Comments
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence. -Abraham Lincoln Back, not so long ago, there was a time when a man did a crime, he did his time, and went on with life. What he did, depending on the severity, was a mistake which he paid for, and […]
OceansOfThought @ April 15, 2008 # Comments Off on On the Next Big Thing in Disruptive Technology aka Fighting the Curse of Babel
“The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time.” -Abraham Lincoln We’ve decided to try a different tac, and to do one of […]
OceansOfThought @ April 10, 2008 # One Comment
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, “Truth is the daughter of Time.” –Abraham Lincoln Symbols are our life. The cross, battle fields, flames, religious figures. All carry meanings and in some places, treating them incorrectly can get you killed, if not worse, just wishing to die. One […]
OceansOfThought @ April 9, 2008 # Comments Off on On Overcomming the Reptilian Brain
“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”-Abraham Lincoln While reading the economist i ran across an article in which the reporter pointed out that how the differences in countries defined how he felt about a particular incident. In this case, it was an Ism. He arrived at […]
OceansOfThought @ April 8, 2008 # Comments Off on On the Bloodless Revolution of China
“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.” Abraham Lincoln Rare is the revolution that is bloodless. They are messy, messy things where people get killed and those advocating revolution should realize without the honor of the old days (barely honorable old days). Conversely, I don’t always agree that every 2 […]