That there are 36 Obama aides who owe back taxes is great news for the country which had just learned at the State of the Union speech that Tim “Tax Cheat” Geithner wouldn’t be around for a second term as Treasury Secretary. We now have an expanded pool of candidates to take over from Geithner, […]
Tag: History
Political correctness come full circle
There should be a lot of political correctness tap-dancing on this one. Choose your side and start shaking. Whose race card will trump the other? in the battle between the Native Americans, descendents of slaves held by the Cherokee, self-determination, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44516027/ns/us_news-life/#.TnCthk_VRSc Related articles Cherokee Nation (coffeenchat.wordpress.com) Why ‘Political Correctness’ […]
the only surprise is why it took so long to introduce the race card
Sheila Jackson Lee is usually much quicker, maybe she’s just getting tired http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/171807-sheila-jackson-lee-suggests-congress-complicating-debt-ceiling-because-obama-is-black memories are pretty short apparently when it comes to the disrespect that previous presidents have been shown in difficult negotiations. You’d think that by now politicians would’ve learned to disregard what other people think about them; that doesn’t seem to be one […]
Battle ready, brain ready: a stream of consciousness reflection
(from an e-mail conversation with a new friend, the inventor of Brainmode power), Stephen asked me to reflect upon the phrase: Battle ready, brain ready. This was my stream of consciousness: it seems to me that brain state is an integral part of every behavior or cognitive process. for instance, we use a number of […]
Image by Getty Images via @daylife I am rarely in agreement with Richard Cohen, but I admire his willingness to take a position. His discussion of the increasing gap between the nation and it’s Army is spot on. The Vietnam War Army happened to have been my Army. I was on active duty as […]
Federal judge gives Obama opportunity to save face over healthcare
Image via Wikipedia The federal judge that ruled Obama’s healthcare plan unconstitutional just saved Obama’s political career by giving them an opportunity to fight a glorious, noble and ultimately losing battle. He’ll be able to save face by showing that he gave his everything, but he won’t have to suffer the consequences of actually implementing […]
All the smooth hep-cats take a groovy step forward; not so fast Obama
Image via Wikipedia Obama: the man with a tin ear; he thinks he is legendary; he is becoming an urban legend, a walking punchline. He is looking more like Alfred E Neumann everyday He was supposed to be above politics; we now see he is just not very good at doing it. Oh, he can […]
Eliot Spitzer on CNN
Image by steve louie via Flickr what a buffoon. Did he run out of hookers to chase? Who thought it was a good idea to give him a microphone …so we can listen to his excellent and reasoned judgment credits Clinton with giving us a budget surplus; blames libertarian economics for the current budget disaster […]
Obama and competence
Image via Wikipedia Conservatives are as nutty over Obama as liberals were over Bush I agree with everything #38 posted except for the evil part. He’s evil, as evil as Stalin or Hitler or Pol Pot. as evil as Stalin, Hitler or Pol Pot?! really? the greatest mass murderers in history? for one thing, he […]
Persistence vs Reframing
Image via Wikipedia I was thinking about the tension that I see between persistence and reframing. A lot of our formal management and leadership education suggests that we should continue to work our way through and around obstacles along the way in order to get to our objectives. Traditional problem-solving tells us that the path […]