A place for things I found…
These things are serious.
Are permanent, 9-5, work for some company as an employee “jobs” a thing of the past? Can people really create their own “work” for pay? And what if most people can’t? This article asks some disturbing questions, if the trends the author writes about are true. We may all have to eventually work for ourselves, if we can…
http://www.transparencyrevolution.com/2011/09/jobsolescence/
And can we take a break from the “ram two words together to make a new one” for a bit? Sheesh…
A simple, stirring tribute from the newly elected Congressmen who served in our military. Just reciting “The Star Spangled Banner”, no fancy graphics, no political B.S., just humble words.
“Let this be our motto, ‘In God is our trust.'”
I really like reading and watching Stephen “Vodkapundit” Green, he pulls no punches and makes you laugh while he does it. Â His latest take on “I Wonâ„¢” and the dawning realization that he’s not enough of a leader to even be another Jimmy Carter: “Jimmy Carter is the best-case Scenario”
Continue reading ““Jimmy Carter is the best-case scenario””
The economy isn’t dead, it’s pining!
Mark Steyn calls this “the dead parrot” economy, after the Monty Python “Dead Parrot” sketch. Despite the apologists for the Flatline Administration constantly ranting about how the economy is really and truly out of a recession, (No, this time we really mean it! Really!) businesses still aren’t hiring. This report shows why, and with what suspicious timing, the jobs aren’t there.
“It’s not pining, it’s passed on! It’s rung down the curtain and joined the Choir Invisible! This, is an ex-economy!”
WWII veteran Jack Leroy Tueller tells a story of one night in France after D-Day. He was an Army Air Corps pilot who was spending his first night there, while a German sniper kept shooting at him and the others at the makeshift airstrip. He was a trumpet player who carried his trumpet with him all through the war, and still has it and plays it to this day. He played “Lili Marlene” in order to persuade the sniper to stop firing. Watch these all the way through.
The power of music, indeed.
Some advice for people who still get their “news” from newspapers, on how to survive once they go out of business…
Brother and I are back in DC now, jetlagged and going to sleep for many hours.
Well, getting to the hotel in Narita was painful, not because of the trip, but by what happened at the station. Continue reading “Last post from Japan…”
