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Obama And Buffet Related. President's Image Falls After News Breaks!

http://www.skynews.com.au/business/article.aspx?id=406998

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34451672/ns/politics-white_house/?gt1=43001

Dear Pals,

I think these two stories explain so much.

On one day it is revealed that President Obama and Warren Buffet are related and then on the next day Obama's popularity falls.

Instead of taxing schmoos like you and me, why doesn't Barack call up his cousin Warren and get him to finance the deficit.

What's next!! Tiger Woods is related to Bill Clinton?

Stay tuned.

Birk, Commonsenstarian and Citizen of the Republic, a Mob of One

Art Bell Broadcasting From Manila: What Time Is It? What Is Time, It? What Is It, Time? Space-Time Continuum Continues To Puzzle Many On The Dusty Road Of Life. Birk Steps In To Clear It All Up.

Dear Pals,

There have been two really fascinating shows on Coast-To-Coast this week. The first was an interview with Joshua P. Warren. My old St. Louis Pal, C2C-host George Noory interviewed this author of The Secret Wisdom Of KUKLUKAN. (www.joshuapwarren.com)

The second show earlier today was with Starfire Tor the "Chief Brain" at an unnamed Think Tank.

The founding father of C2C the one and only Art Bell was broadcasting this interview from his home in Manila, The Phillipines. Starfire was fascinating as she discussed her theory of the Core Matrix and the origin and source of TIME itself (That's time as in TIME-dimensional and directional TIME, not the magazine founded by Luce) and a concept called Reality Shift Manifestation. (www.starfiretor.com)

IS THIS ALL A LOT OF NEW AGE MUMBO-JUMBO?

I have my own take on all this...

As the "Chief Brain" (Starfire has this cool title, think I should swipe it, huh?) at the ORCA Partnership Think Tank, let me ask you to participate in a little TIME experiment with me.

I hope Starfire Tor will come along too!

BIRK EXPLAINS TIME IF YOU HAVE THE TIME:

Step One: With a ruler, draw a straight line on an 11 x 17 sheet of paper. Call this line a unit of TIME measurement, it can be a minute, a second, nano-second or an eon

Step Two: Make the line 12" long and straight as an arrow

Step Three: Name the line, "The Arrow of TIME" - Stephen Hawking, will like that. He is the Lucasian Professor of Mathmatics and the world-renowned physicist who wrote extensively about TIME.

Step Four: Draw an arrow pointing to the RIGHT - according to Hawking The Arrow of Time is a one way direction from past to present and relentlessly on to the future.

Step Five: Get some string and cut off 7 - 12-inch lengths

Step Six: Lay one string down exactly along The Arrow of TIME line.

Step Seven: This represents TIME in one Universe. If you looked head-on at the string from the beginning or end (Alpha end Omega end), you would see a "point" - the entire line is made up of points in TIME.

Step Seven: Now, Einstein said that there was such a thing as the Space-Time Continuum. And he also believed that it was curved. So? Well, any line that is curved has an arc which means that if the arc is extended that it will eventually bend around to form a full circle.

Step Eight: Now, according to most physicists, THE BIG BANG - which created the universe in Space came from the explosion of a "singularity" - something or "no-thing" that was so infinitely small and dense that it contained all the matter in the universe.

Including the stuff in you and me.

Step Nine: But, according to the Bible it was GOD who created the universe and kicked it off with THE WORD...Let there be light!

I think the physicists and the advocates of creative intelligence (aka God) are both right.

Here's my notion that will make both camps equally unhappy.

My theory is: THE BIG BANG was the sound of the BIG THOUGHT being verbalized by THE BIG THINKER, the Creative force of the universe.

GOD or the singularity seem to be one-side of the same massless one-sided coin/point.

NOTES: Keep the following ideas in mind, but buckle up for a mind-bending ride on The Screaming Beagle...I named it after Snoopy, because I love to snoop around in the recesses of the Human-space-time-mind-brain-soul continuum.

_______________ keep in mind...

Light is both a WAVE and a particle (photon).

Sound (the voice of God or the explosion of the BIG BANG) is a sound Wave with a frequency of vibration(s)

All matter in the Univese vibrates - so it has a frequency that can be measured in a WAVE

My pal Dr. Arno Penzias won the Nobel Prize for Physics for discovering "The Echo of the Big Bang" which is the identical background vibration you find wherever you point your sensors in Space.

Einstein believed that the Space-Time continuum exists. And is curved.

Step Ten: Now, take another piece of string and lay it 2" above the first piece of string on your Arrow of Time line.

You have just created TIME in a parallel universe. Another dimension for TIME to travel in.

Step Eleven: Just for fun, let's allow The Arrow of TIME to be a two-way street in this Universe.

So TIME here can flow from future to present to past and past to present to past and future to present to future. H.G. Wells would like this highway for his Time Machine.

Look out future here we come...at the speed of light...or maybe even faster.

NOTE: These parallel Universes exist unbeknownst to each other, they don't intersect or interact.

Step Twelve: Now add a 3rd string 2" below your Arrow of TIME. In this universe, you can make The Arrow of TIME modulate from left to right or right to left back to a point that you select. Think of it as a "re-bound button" - every so often TIME automatically re-bounds itself...like in 2012 when the Mayan Calendar ends.

Oooogahboogah!

Step Thirteen: Now take a 4th piece of string and lay it over the first string and the second string above it in a WAVE pattern. BUT don't let the wave dip below your original Arrow of TIME.

Now you have an intersecting universe - lets have time flow both ways in this WAVY universe - that is interacting with the other two. Note the places where the WAVE line crosses the 2 parallel lines. Could these be time warps, worm holes or inter-dimensional portals??

Step Fourteen: Now take a 5th piece of string and lay it over the first string and the third string below it in a WAVE pattern. BUT don't let the wave dip above your original Arrow of TIME.

Now you have a 2nd intersecting universe - lets have time flow ONE WAY in this 2nd WAVY universe - that is interacting with the other two. Note the places where the WAVE line crosses the 2 parallel lines.

More potential "points of contact" - ingress and egress??

Step Fifteen: Now take the 6th piece of string and lay it in either a straight line or wave pattern at 90-degrees to all the other pieces of string.

Note the intersecting points. Michio Kaku Ph.D would like this...it's kinda like String Theory.

It's also a lot like the ancient Vedic concept called the Net Of Indra...wherein the universe was envisioned as a net stretching off in all directions.

At each intersecting point there was a perfectly-faceted diamond (a creation of God) called a human being that reflected the essence and light of every other human being in the universe or creature in the "multiverse."

Or, maybe the other dimensions in the multiverse are Jung's Collective Unconsciousness, Edgar Cayce's Hall of Records or Napoleon Hill's Subconscious Creative Mastermind.

Or perhaps it's Starfire Tor's "Core Matrix" - it could all be different ways of envisoning the world of Quantum Mechanics. That would make Niels Bohr smile and give Einstein indigestion.

We are all a part of ONE. Hmmm...

It looks like physics and intelligent design are both arcing in the Space Time Continuum to come full circle and connect with the idea that all human beings have God-DNA (made in his image and likeness)and the vibration and light of the Creative Force of the universe within each of us.

May the Force be with you!

TWO LAST THOUGHTS TO PONDER:

1) Imagine the string display before you in 3-dimensions instead of on a 2-dimensional plane. I think of it as The Wavy Gravy Universe...all connected and vibrating to God's tuning fork.

Wow...does that interconnected web look like the model for the Internet?

Are all the little diamonds on Facebook vibrating with the electro-magnetic waves called Tweets? I'll bet Nicola Tesla would smile at that notion.

2) Take the 7th piece of string and compress it in a WAVE pattern...see how high the wave goes and how low it goes? The more compression  -the higher the high and the lower the low of the WAVE.

Looks a lot like an emotional roller-coaster ride on The Screaming Beagle to me!

And if you compress it enough, the TIME WAVE of the future will compress on the present and the present will compress on the past. TIME will become ONE and it's THE BIG CRUNCH...or deja vu all over again.

It's kinda like the Great Depression of 1929-1933 meets the Great Repression of 2008-?

Or, if something flys in from a parallel universe - one of the other dimensions created by the Intelligent Designer, then we might have a paradigm shift.

Could be a Reality Shift Manifestation? The Return of the Jedi? The return of The Messiah? The Return of the 12th Planet Nibaru and the Anunaki? Will we hear Gabriel's trumpet blare? Is it Armageddon? The Rapture, Tribulation and Judgment Day?

Or an invitation to join our extended family?

Will our inspiring new President simply step up to the microphone and introduce us to Seti I and Osiris from Sirius and my cousin, Beldar Conehead from Epsilon Bhoatis in the Star System Alpha Centuri.

I'll bet that would make Agents Muldor and Scully smile. I know Willaim Shatner would yell out, "See, I told you StarTrek was real!"

But I wonder what effect the news would have on our little pals like the Sheiks of Oilaby and Mamoud Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong Il??

As James Taylor would sing, we might have to "shed a little light oh Lord" - on those chaps and their followers.

I know Pope Gregory is all set to be on board, the Vatican has 2 Observatories - one in Rome and one in Arizona. Cardinal Balducci was an open spokesmen for "our brothers and sisters in the Creation."

 And just a few weeks ago The Vatican convened an Astro-Biological Conference. Guess who's runnning the show?

The Jesuits. Gotta love those "black robes," the Church's resident free-thinkers.

Well that oughtta to be enough to chew on for one day...

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen Of The Republic. A Mob of One.

PS: I do believe that the light of our Creator is in all men. But each of us has to find it on his own. Don't look up or out for answers...it all begins within you.

Let your light shine!

Where one finds HATE. Stand up for LOVE.

Where one finds LIES. Stand up for TRUTH.

Where one finds DEATH. Stand up for LIFE.

Where one finds DIVISIVENESS. Stand up for UNITY.

If not you...who?

If not know...when?

The enlighted human being is the Capstone of Creation on the Earth. But maybe not in the multiverse.

www.capstonepyramid.com

Do you think mankind is ready to accept the the news that we are not alone?

Or will Spielberg have to make another movie!!

With a tip of the hat to Bill O'Reilly, "What say you?"

I know what my pal Col. Julius would say, "As above, so baloney."

Mass Hypnosis: The Secret Of Obama's Success, And How Mass Awakening Will Vanquish Him.

Dear Pals,

Hypnosis is suggestion accepted as reality.

That's it in a nutshell.

"You are getting sleepy...very sleepy. Your eyes are as heavy as lead...you are going deeper and deeper into a very very deep sleep..."

I have been told that my blogs have that affect (or is it, effect?) on many.

Well, candidate Obama and now President Obama succeeded in hypnotizing a large portion of the American population. Enough to get him elected along with OTHER like-minded people in the House and Senate.

How did it work?

1) By giving potential voting segments suggestions that they would accept

2) Then, building on their acceptance of his suggestions, he promised...

3) Solutions that will immediately benefit them and their families...and all America ($1000.00 cash stimulus anyone? Hey let's buy GM and Chrysler and stimulate those "shovel-ready" jobs to the tune of a Trillion! )

4) All you have to do is elect me

5) And accept my policies and plans

6) If we do that, we will transform America now...but we'll have to move fast, because (white male) American capitalists (IE: war-profiteering, minority and women and union labor-exploiting Republican business owners)

That's all it took...

Hypnosis suggestion accepted.

And, a suggestion once accepted gives The Great Suggestor control over the minds and wills of the Unthinking Suggestion Acceptors - otherwise known as The Hypnotized American.

Here's an example:

Imbedded belief 1: You and your family before you have been the recipients of great social injustice. You have been disadvantaged, held back and held down. America is run by (white male) capitalists and they have ruthlessly amassed wealth by exploiting minorities and women - who they pay less than white men doing the same work.

You have been victimized.

Imbedded truth: Slavery was evil. Minorities and women have been exploited for their labor.

Leading Conclusion 1: You have been victimized and robbed..

Finding a class of culprits to blame (The Nazis demonized the Jews and the Russians the Kulaks)

Let's blame: (White male) American capitalists...look what they have done to you and your family and to women and to union laborers. 

Leading Conclusion 2: You have been victimized and robbed and (white male) American capitalists are to blame.

Imbedded Belief 2, Justice is fair and good:  All people are entitled to justice, where you get what you deserve. The wealth robbed from you and your family's labor by (white male) American capitalists was unjustly and unfairly taken.

Emotionally-Charged Suggestions:

Your family deserves a wonderful home - is $250,000 too much to ask, given as long and as hard as you work??

You deserve a $3500.00 mortgage relief credit -it's not your fault you can't pay your bills, the man (white male capitalist) doesn't pay you enough...BUT he pays HUGE bonuses, that he doesn't deserve, to himself.

You deserve high quality healthcare and it should be low cost and available to all.

You deserve $4500 for that clunker you drive...

You deserve a new union-made American GM or Chrysler car

The Big Set Up Question: Is simple social justice to much to hope for??? Hasn't simple social justice been denied long enough?

The Accepting Minds are now primed and their emotions (hope) have been energized to accept The Hypnotic Suggestion from the Great Suggestor.

The Hypnotic Message: I, Barack Obama, am just like you, just look at my face...my skin color isn't like the Presidents on our paper money...I get it. I am the one and the ONLY one, who can make your hopes become reality...but I need you to step up and stand with me.

This isn't about me...it's about all of us.

The Hypnotic Suggestion: Here it comes...elect me and together we will change America now.

We will fundamentally transform it and you and your family will get all that you deserve and are entitled to...and the (white male) American capitalists, who exploited all the minorities and women and union laborers will be made to pay.

There will be no new taxes on the "middle class" - only the wealthiest (white male capitalist) Americans will pay - actually they will just repay what they have robbed from you and your family, and then some!

The Hypnotic Reaction: Yes we can!

This is OUR time.

This is OUR turn!

Elect me and let's move America forward.

Let everyone rejoice!

Let the school children sing!

Barack Hussein Obama...mmm...mmm...mmm

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So, the trap was set and sprung.

The messenger Barack Obama became the physical embodiment of The Hypnotic Message.

The attractive, articulate, affable, smiling, passionate, young and well-educated mixed-racial Great Suggestor, known as Barack Hussein Obama, stepped forward as the freshly-packaged solution to what ails America...and, to the larger world that was alientated by decades of American exploitation, intervention, intolerance and injustice, he became Apoligist-In-Chief. After all, as long as he's transforming America...why not transform the world too?

The media and the message and the messenger merged into a powerful Hypnotic force.

I hate to admit this!

But, David Axholerod and I both practice the same craft.

We are salesmen. Marketing guys. Hucksters. Hypemeiesters. We know how to read research. We know how to "position" and "brand" products for sale. We know how to craft messages that will cause people to buy things. Cars. Jewelry. Food. Whiskey. Champagne. Banks. Bar-B-Que Sauce...even people and opinions...like Brand Barack H.Obama.

Axholerod (and yours truly) both know that the Human Brain Cannot Be Rewired...I used to teach this to my classes of capitalists at Enterprise University.

Only at EU the capitalists I saw included women, minorities, women minorities, new business starters, 2nd. and in some cases, 3rd. generation business owners. They didn't look like culprits to me...they were risk takers, job creators and folks who were willing to do the hard work it took to be successful.

I loved teaching these folks...and in all modesty, my courses Marketing Strategy I and II were the best attended by actual enrollment count and I consistently earned the top #1 rating in attendee surveys.

BUT, I digress!!! 

Axholerod and I also know, that if we know and understand the Imbedded Beliefs In The Human Brain, we can plug a well-crafted hypnotic suggestion into those beliefs to get the outcome we desire.

All it takes now to make the SALE is the selection and deployment of the right creative mix:

1) An appealing and attractive and "clean sexy" spokesman/On-Camera Talent - Barack is cool...sigh and isn't he kinda exotically sexy in way that many women find almost irressitable?

2) Deliver an easy-to-understand resonating message that will be accepted - Barack smiles and people want to like him and believe in him. ( He makes "slick Willy" and "Tricky Dick" look like doofuses...what chance did torture-maimed-McCain really have? )

3) Backed up with a sufficient amount of money to buy a tsunami wave of media reach and frequency in an exposure pattern to drive the message home...over and over with single-minded repetition.

4) Deployed against the target audiences (Including: "victimized" minorities/women/guilt-ridden white liberals/social activists/progressive socialists/hardcore ideological liberals/compassionate moderates/single-issue independents (E: anti-war/anti-Bush/Al Gore Greenies)...and, God Bless 'em, those kind-hearted older people, who feel "guilty for being white and fortunate" or for the plight and the suffering among us.

That is an winning recipe to sell Fresh New Obama Juice - fortified with Hope and Change!

That is how Obama Hypnotized America en masse.

Of course, having ACORN out there helping "get out the vote" didn't hurt his chances either. It's all about distribution and in this case, re-distribution of wealth from the culprit class to the entitled and deserving exploited class.

This is Obama's plan to "bring America together."

"Say Amen Brother!!" - Rev. Jeremiah Jackson

Hypnotic Reinforcement Message: People who oppose Obama are angry mobs (of white male and female capitalists). They want to hold us back and keep us down...and out.

Don't listen to them. Don't listen to Rush Limbaugh. Don't watch FOX News, don't listen to the US Chamber of Commerce, don't listen to the Office Of Budget and Management. Don't listen to those "teabaggers." Don't listen to the angry Nazi mobs of old white men and women at the town hall meetings.

They are not real Americans tuned into what we need to do...they are yesterday...and we are now and tomorrow.

Let's hear the mantra!!!

Yes we can! Barack Hussein Obama mmm...mmm...mmm...mmm

There is no stopping us now.

Not even tax cheats like Tim Geithner, Tom Daschle, Charlie Rangle or fools like Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Mark Murtha...or even Joe "The Scrappy Kid From Scranton PA" Biden can slow us down.

I am The Dream come true!

I am a Nobel Prize Winner!

I am the President!

I am Barack Hussein Obama..."look on my work ye mighty and behold!"

(Please see my archived blog on Ozymandias, King of Kings,  if you need a point of reference on that quote.)

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Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic and a Mob of One

PS: Tune in tomorrow when I'll tell you how America can wake up from and pemanently break Obama's Hypnotic Spell.

The Working Title is: Barack Obama AS SEEN ON TV!!! 24/7/365.

The Theme is: Not As Advertised, but assault and batteries on freedom and liberty are included.

The Sub Theme is: Controlling The Message - Tune in to your local affiliate on the Obama Network - NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN and MSNBC. And don't miss the show "In The Tank" every Sunday (formerly called Meet The Press)

FYI: The only equipment you'll need to bring to the blog tomorrow is a logically-functioning brain.

FCC INTERNET REGULATORY NOTICE: This blogger does not consume or endorse the use of the alcoholic beverage brand: Hypnotique. Nor should the use of the word Hypnotic contained herein be construed as a veiled phoentic sound-alike reference to the afore-mentioned alcoholic brand in an attempt to encourage awareness, trial and use of Hypnotique. This blogger has received no financial compensation or remuneration of any kind from the makers of Hypnotique.

PERSONAL NOTE: Nor do I drink halleucinegetic OJ (Obama Juice) because of its potentially harmful secret ingredient: BS-4U.

 

 

 

 

BONUS TRIPLE TOPIC BLOG: Why Common Sense Should Be Prized More Than "Book Learning." Plus, Einstein's Special Theory Of Religious Relativity. And The Story Of An Old Pal Who Was A TADD Wise Beyond His "Ears."

Dear Pals,

Do you suffer from TADD?

I do.

I'll explain, but first...

BLOG POINT ONE: Stupid is as stupid does.

I've met some really well-educated people who don't have a lick of common sense.

They are often "uber-educated savants" - really bright folks, intellectual giants with a ton of knowledge and incredible expertise in a very "narrow bandwidth" and/or highly-specialized field.

But, once outside their area of intellectual prowess and occupational concentration...they can barely tie their own shoes. Hence the reason for the invention of Mom, Bass Weejun loafers and velcro.

I have also met many less-educated folks, under-educated, uneducated or non-formally-educated folks, who have a much more panoramic perspective and a far better grasp of reality - thanks to the richness of their life experiences: the good, the bad and the ugly.

In my estimation, life experiences are a far better source of education than "book learning," because experience teaches reality and "book learning" teaches theory.

And there can be a blistering gap between Theory and Reality.

EG: You can read about the theory of "touching the stove" - and speculate about the hypothesis and possible outcomes of "touching the stove," but the real learning occurs when you actually reach out and  "touch the stove."

It might be cool and safe. Warm and kinda cozy. Or, it might be blazing ass red hot.

It's like Healthcare...you can approach it sanely, rationally and very carefully, and take its temperature (pardon, the medical pun)  or you can grab that sucker with both hands and see what happens when you start trying to bend the entire existing system to fit unproven and arguably ill-conceived ideas.

Right now, I see my country in the hands of a cadre of inexperienced elitist social theorists with little or no practical real world life experiences to temper their ardent zeal to help the hoi polloi...a.k..a. me and you.

We can argue about their intentions and motives all day long - but, setting intentions completely aside, it's the empty reservoir of normal job-related experiences and alarming lack of real world-real job, "paycheck earning" experience that troubles me most.

No legislation, no Federal program, no amount of "community-organizing" --- no matter how well-intentioned it is or how well-written can substitute for basic real-job, real-world common sense, nor can more legislation and more laws and regulations CHANGE or modify human behavior even one billionth of a nano-iota.

Here's my assertion offered as proof of the veracity of the preceding statement:

Not even God Almighty could get The Ten (10) Commandments followed, even when enforced by Moses, Aaron, Solomon or David.

And Charleton Heston and Cecil B. De Mille, God's Ten Commandment publicists in our era, had even less success.

Thou Shalt Not Kill. Ooops. That happens everyday in hundreds of ways - from Pro-Choice clinics to the geo-political theater-of-war stage and often in Allah's name.

Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery. Ooops. Unless you're looking for HOT SINGLES tonight.

Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbors Wife. Ooops. But she looks so hot in that thong bikini!

Thou Shalt Not Steal. Ooops. Barney Madoff are you listening?

My subtle point is, if mankind itself, cannot observe 10 fairly straightforward and easy-to-understand rules, how can a cadre of petty-fogging elitist politicians led by an inexperienced President make things "work better for the American people" through Trillion dollar bailouts, stimulus packages and healthcare bills "crafted" behind closed doors and passed unread.

How can laws and bills that are so quickly written and onerously complex, that it often takes an army of lawyers and the Judicial system to sort them out, possibly be good for me and you, the ordinary schmoo?

As a matter of Bill Creating process, does this seem right to you?

Write 'em!

Don't read 'em!

Don't worry about Constitutionality!

Don't worry about budget. Fudgeit!!

Pass 'em!

Just do it!

Hurry hurry hurry...we must do "something!"

Let the courts sort out the legality!

Something must be done now to save and protect the great unwashed, under-educated, unAmerican Citizen mobs from themselves and their inability to understand our elitist brilliance.

Thank God for the DEECEE PECers! (Political Elite Class)

Hallelujah!!! and Amen Brother Barack!

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It all seems so unearthly, so unreal, so utterly stupid and laughably tragic to me...

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BLOG POINT TWO: What open to "liberal" interpretation means.

I have a dear friend who once explained Einstein's Special Theory Of Religious Relativity to me...you might be amused by it too.

He asked me if I knew the difference between Episcopalians and Catholics?

Then he told me that according to Einstein's Theory of Religious Relativity that Catholics have the 10 Commandments, Episcopalians have the 3 Commandments and the 7 Suggestions.

He said, according to this theory, "The 10 Commandments are open to very liberal interpretation."

He was truly wise beyond his "ears." 

If the DEECEE PECer's had been behind the Burning Bush, Moses would have come down the mountain with The 10 Commandments and 150,000,000,000,000 million lines of Federal legal code to explain them.

And the Jews would still be wandering in the desert!

Naturally, The 10 Commandments and the Federal enforcement legislative and legal code would not apply to Congress, since they have their own set of rules.

BLOG POINT THREE: How it all fits together.

So today, I find myself bemused by all of the political shenanighans, promises, fiscal insanity and posturing by the book learners in DEECEE that are far smarter than me.

And, I find myself comforted by the common sense of the ordinary citizen, who's out there everyday working at their so-called "meaningless little jobs" and trying hard to do just 10 things right.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic

PS: Does it seem semantically ironic to anyone besides me that some morons actually say, "Thank God for the ACLU because it got The 10 Commandments out of schools, courthouses and government buildings."???

They really have achieved separation of church and state.

I get it though, to millions of people, The 10 Commandments simply don't apply anymore.

Now, I'm not one to cast the first stone here...I admit that in my life, I've been a bad boy and wandered off the straight and narrow path from time to time and done some pretty stupid things of which I am not proud.

I have touched the stove...more than once.

I reckon that I'm kind of a "slow learner."

Fortunately, for me and in ways and circumstances often miraculous, I've been nudged, guided, cajoled and occasionally, dragged kicking and screaming back to the straight and narrow path.

Unfortunately, I have a tendency to "wander" and behave like a moth around a flame, I think I have TADD (Temptation Attraction Dalliance Disorder).

TADD is also called: "I never met a temptation I didn't like SINdrome." I was an enthusiastic practitioner of, "If it feels good...Just Do It!"  Ooops!

Which brings me back full circle.

In our politically-correct ACLU-ACORN-Nanny State-Secular Humanist world, The 10 Commandments have become irrelevant and archaic...and, frankly I don't think they apply in Congress anymore...and haven't for sometime. 

There are so many temptations - and so, little time - that it's easy to stray in the Halls Of Addictive Political Power.

TADD may have become a national epidemic.

In America, the ACLU has used the laws of man to trump the laws of God.

We've moved on...the question is, to where?

Zzzzzzzzzzip! Okay Girls, Go Ahead And Yawn...I Promise That I Won't Be Offended. But, Whatever You Do, Please Don't Laugh! However, A Mattress Giant-Style "Oooh-Ahhh" Or An Occasional Round Of Applause For All The Boys Would Be Very Deeply Appreciated!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32205127/ns/health-sexual_health/

Dear Pals,

The short story at the link above explained so much to me. But, also raised so many questions.

I'll have to get a copy of this new "Sexpose" (America Unzipped, by Brian Alexander) to really find out what's up, what's in and out in sex.

What?

Oops!

Now I'm all red, blushed and flushed...but hey, that supposed to be good for the skin. No wonder I look so young...perpetual embarassment can do that!

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic

PS: In my next life, maybe I'll come back as "Hef" the lucky lab mouse.

Here's my opening line, "Hello, my Mousettes, it's me..."Hef, The Mattress Giant"...for cheddar or for wurst."

Oooh-Ahhh...Oooh-La-La...Oooh-La-Hahahahaha!

If You Think President Barack Obama Is Eloquent, Inspiring And Enlightening, Please Listen To Ted Nugent. The Man Has A Way With Words.

Dear Pals,

http://biggeekdaddy.com/miscvideos/TedNugent.html

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of What's Left Of The Republic

PS: Please feel free to share this wonderful and heartwarming interview with all your Pals.

The Birk One-Step Healthcare Insurance Reform Solution: It's Easy And It's Already Been Tested And Approved By The U. S. Congress. Send This On To Your Elected Representative And Say "This I What I Want, Nothing More And Nothing Less!"

Dear Pals,

Just give as ALL the same Healthcare Coverage that Senators and Congressmen have at the very same price they pay out of their pocket. Theirs is a great plan...our Inspiring new President came out and said so in his last Press Lecture.

Well, if it's good enough for the President and Congress, then, it's good enough for me.

There that wasn't so hard.

After all since they are "public servants" and "work for us" doing the "people's business" and using the "taxpayers money," why should we have anything less than the very same insurance coverage that these DEE CEE PECers have?

(NOTE: PECer is a member of the Political Elite Class)

Let's hear the Ogenius and Nutzi Nancy and Smilin' Chuck Schumer, Chris "Countryside" Dodd and B..b...b...Bwarney Fwank 'splain why that's not a good idea.

If their insurance is too expensive for the "ordinary citizen," then they should scale their current coverage back to the Democrat proposed "Public Plan" level. Seems like the obviously right thing to do at least to me.

How about you?

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen Of What's Left Of The Republic

 

PS: At the risk of utter overkill, may I suggest: Let's give 'em at least a prime time hour for an educated debate to give all of us schmoos pluses and minuses on the details.

Let's spend at least as much time on covering the details of this scheme as the media did on the death of the self-proclaimed "King of Pop."

Who's Smarter, Asian-Americans, Jews or West Indian Blacks? Why Do They Have To Ruin "The Curve" For The Rest Of Us Poor Schmoos?

Dear Pals,

Is it the IQ thing or racial genetics or socialization that determine successful outcomes in life?

My pal, the renowned educator, author, MI-exponent and cravat connoisseur, Tom Hoerr, Ph.D. sent me an interesting article on this topic.

He wrote, "Today’s William Kristof’s NYT column, “Rising Above IQ,” is definitely worth reading. He works from Richard Nisbett’s book, “Intelligence And How to Get It” in looking at race and IQ."

You can read Kristof’s article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/opinion/07kristof.html?scp=2&sq=kristof&st=cse

I won't ruin the "surprise ending."

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic

PS: I think he could have - and should have - thrown in the East Indians of the Asian sub-continent too. In my own observations, I notice how well these folks do especially in medicine and marketing where I have Pals from these cultural and racial backgrounds.

Judge Sotomayor might be shocked when she discovers that a "wise Latina woman" has some serious competition from many other quarters besides white men!

I personally believe that the only kind of "affirmative action" that really works is the kind we take for ourselves.

I may be wrong...but, that's what was drummed in to my mush-filled skull - by my Mom, Dad and Grandparents - as a lad growing up in a very dark-blue collar neighborhood in South St. Louis.

I can still hear the words, "Who's responsible for you? You are. You can be anything you want if you're willing to work hard to get it."

At the end of the day, all racial divisiveness is both unbecoming and unempowering - it's only when we all realize that the human race is ONE...that personal empowerment and personal responsibilty becomes possible and trumps group stereotyping.

www.capstonepyramid.com - Check it out, you might find something here that resonates in you too.

How Utterly Unusual!! A Bank That Actually Invests Its Very Own Money To Enrich Its Customers And Prospects: The Enterprise University Story.

Dear Pals,

PROCLAIMER: This is a different kind of blog today. I'm telling you upfront that this topic is a straight forward commercial message. But, it's one that is truly beneficial for business owners.

Here's the story...it's just the truth well-told without hype or embellisment.

Banks and banking have been getting slammed in the media and in the stock market a lot these days. I won't recount the stories of sub-prime mortgages here.

But not all banks deserved to be "tarred with the same brush." This is one such story.

There is a bank that I am very proud to call my bank. The bank is Enterprise Bank and Trust Company and they did not have any exposure in the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae debacle.

Additionally on the plus side, Enterprise also has a very unique educational initiative that has been widely written about in the local media and in the national banking and financial services industry press.

It's called Enterprise University and it is the educational arm of the $3+ Billon publicly-traded (NASDAQ -EFSC)  St. Louis-based Enterprise Bank and Trust.

EB&T is NOT a consumer or retail bank. It is a pure play commercial bank and trust company with facilities in St. Louis, Kansas City and coming soon to Phoenix and "The West Valley" in Arizona.

Since its inception nearly 5-years ago, Enterprise University has had nearly 5000 people attend its classes. These include private business owners, their staffs and their owner families, medical professionals, corporate business executives and leaders of not-for-profit and non-profit organizations.

Today I will be attending a course taught by Dr. Lori Lewis, here's what her course looks like:

410 Change and Transition Management

We are in a time of full changes. The changes are viewed as "necessary" - therefore the assumption is made that people will adjust to the changes accordingly. But experience tells us that the process of change can be stressful and disruptive. This session provides a framework to deal successfully with organizational changes and making those changes work.

Instructor:  Lori O. Lewis Ph.D. - Dir. of Organizational Development, Enterprise Bank & Trust

Session Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM - Eller Hall

I'm attending this because I am transitioning my company and I need good counsel, objective input and the performance metrics and tools to help me have a successful transition in the next 5-years.

I thought that you might also want to learn more about EU. Most courses have no fees attached. A few have modest fees for pre-course testing and for materials. So, it's a great value to all attendees.

The concept behind EU was very simple: If Enterprise could help our business owner clients and prospects become more skilled in areas like sales management, picking winners with better hiring practices, marketing and advertising, business succession planning, retirement planning and core banking areas like treasury management and loan relationship management, then Enterprise Bank and Trust would create stronger relationships with current customers and would simultaneously roll out the red carpet to welcome even more success-minded people to its clientele.

If you're interested in learning more visit www.enterprisebank.com and click on the EU icon. Kay Erb, EUs full time Registrar will be happy to provide you with any information you need.

EU is a real commitment to customer service and enrichment that includes an able Faculty and large modern classrooms created for this purpose at Eller Hall in one of Enterprise's suburban St. Louis facilities.

Enterprise Bank and Trust has a positioning line that sums it all up: Talent Strength Passion

Enterprise University is just that in action!

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen Of The Republic

PS: If you click on "B" under Faculty. at www.enterprisebank.com   you might find a familiar face there.