What does this dream mean? Several thoughts went through my head, the first was that hell was a condition of your circumstance here on earth. No, that couldn't be it I thought. Then I thought don't take any advice from anyone about the condition that "The Lord" has put you in. It might seem bad it could definitely be worse. As far as I can tell now, when things are not going the way you want deal with them. Sometimes you must just lay still and endure the situation for a moment, it will pass by and give you a chance to perhaps overcome it. Or maybe I chose life and not death and was given another chance to live.
Belief that with a new way of thinking that Americans rich and poor can have a more abundant life and have a greater positive impact on this world.
Friday, March 20, 2009
I Had A "Hell A Va Dream"
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Get Off the Octuplet Mom's Back
Plastic surgery to enhance my looks, maybe. Lasik surgery to improve my vision, maybe. A rhinoplasty to improve a sinus problem, maybe. Am I upset because she prettier than me. No, she looks much better than she did before. They say the highest praise is imitation. High praise to Angelic Jolie from he Octuplet Mom. Angelic Jolie is pretty but I don't think as pretty as Marilyn Monroe or Vanessa Williams. I believe the Octuplet Mom got the plastic surgery just for beauty enhancement and as a result she does favor Ms. Jolie. Would you pay for the plastic surgery to be the best looking that you can? a lot of people do. There is a show on Television call "Nip Tuck" The topics of that show is sex and beauty. Could she be victim of a different sorts, as a resut of all the talk across this nation of beauty, Cosmopolitan Magazine and the image it portray.s Plastic surgery has done miracles for some. She does have more motherly tendancies than me that's is for sure. I am sure that she loves kids with a passion. In no way would I sign on for her job? I just hope she has strength enough to actually get it done. Can you imagine 18 long years of raising 14 kids.? It reminds me of the show Wde World Of Sports "The feeling of victory and the agony of defeat" she is a winner and in the end will prove it by her endurance. You know what the scripture "The race is not given to the swift but to those who endure". You know people like her are going to be rich in some way or another because of their willingness to get it done, what ever that may be. The Holy Khoran and Holy Bible say says that riches come in two forms children and money. Why do people say such mean things about her? I remember in junior high school and how cruel seventh grader's were who picked on me because I was poor. I had only one nice pair of jeans that I wore over every day, which gave me an inferiority complex. Perhaps you were one of the those one of those who got caled names, or bulied, or perhaps you were the bully. Anger is one thing, but to outwardly judge is wrong. I was told that "People who judge don't count and people who count don't judge." Do you pay taxes, and you live in a free country of America bound only by the law. You do pay taxes and portion of thoses taxes do go to the unfortunate. Libertarians pay for govenmnetal services they want, or don't pay and are not given the services. Republican pay and say "Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps". Democrats say " We are here to provide services for all who live in this country rich or poor". Abraham Lincoln was a republican. The republicans of that time were a caring for the social welfare for people. They bore in mind their concerns for needs of all of the country's citizens free and enslaved. Now the philosphies have switched and the republicans are a party to provide services for Corporate America and the top 3% nation those makeing 250,000 a year or more. But look where that has gotten America, damn near in the poor house. We used to be the No.1 economic superpower on this planet, now to being tied for number three. China being number one and saving our ass financially from ruin. Can you believe that a former communist country saving a 100% democratic republic. Gone from being the richest nation, to being being a debter nation.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
I Can't Do It Alone
One day, when I was a freshman in high school,I saw a kid from my class was walking home from school. His name was Kyle. It looked like he was carrying all of his books. I thought to myself, 'Why would anyone bring home all his books on a Friday? He must really be a nerd.' I had quite a weekend planned (parties and a football game with my friends tomorrow afternoon), so I shrugged my shoulders and went on. As I was walking, I saw a bunch of kids running toward him. They ran at him, knocking all his books out of his arms and tripping him so he landed in the dirt. His glasses went flying, and I saw them land in the grass about ten feet from him... He looked up and I saw this terrible sadness in his eyes My heart went out to him. So, I jogged over to him as he crawled around looking for his glasses, and I saw a tear in his eye. As I handed him his glasses, I said, 'Those guys are jerks.' They really should get lives. ' He looked at me and said, 'Hey thanks!' There was a big smile on his face. It was one of those smiles that showed real gratitude. I helped him pick up his books, and asked him where he lived. As it turned out, he lived near me, so I asked him why I had never seen him before.. He said he had gone to private school before now. I would have never hung out with a private school kid before. We talked all the way home, and I carried some of his books. He turned out to be a pretty cool kid. I asked him if he wanted to play a little football with my friends He said yes. We hung out all weekend and the more I got to know Kyle, the more I liked him, and my friends thought the same of him. Monday morning came, and there was Kyle with the huge stack of books again. I stopped him and said, 'Boy, you are gonna really build some serious muscles with this pile of books everyday! ' He just laughed and handed me half the books. Over the next four years, Kyle and I became best friends.. When we were seniors we began to think about college. Kyle decided on Georgetown and I was going to Duke. I knew that we would always be friends, that the miles would never be a problem. He was going to be a doctor and I was going for business on a football scholarship.. Kyle was valedictorian of our class. I teased him all the time about being a nerd. He had to prepare a speech for graduation. I was so glad it wasn't me having to get up there and speak Graduation day, I saw Kyle. He looked great. He was one of those guys that really found himself during high school. He filled out and actually looked good in glasses. He had more dates than I had and all the girls loved him. Boy, sometimes I was jealous! Today was one of those days. I could see that he was nervous about his speech. So, I smacked him on the back and said, 'Hey, big guy, you'll be great!' He looked at me with one of those looks (the really grateful one) and smiled. ' Thanks,' he said. As he started his speech, he cleared his throat, and began 'Graduation is a time to thank those who helped you make it through those tough years. Your parents, your teachers, your siblings, maybe a coach...but mostly your friends.... I am here to tell all of you that being a friend to someone is the best gift you can give them. I am going to tell you a story.' I just looked at my friend with disbelief as he told the first day we met. He had planned to kill himself over the weekend. He talked of how he had cleaned out his locker so his Mom wouldn't have to do it later and was carrying his stuff home. He looked hard at me and gave me a little smile. 'Thankfully, I was saved. My friend saved me from doing the unspeakable..' I heard the gasp go through the crowd as this handsome, popular boy told us all about his weakest moment. I saw his Mom and dad looking at me and smiling that same grateful smile. Not until that moment did I realize it's depth. Never underestimate the power of your actions.. With one small gesture you can change a person's life. For better or for worse. God puts us all in each others lives to impact one another in some way. Look for God in others. You now have two choices, you can : 1) Pass this on to your friends or 2) Delete it and act like it didn't touch your heart. As you can see, I took choice number 1. 'Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.' There is no beginning or end.. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. It's National Friendship Week. Show your friends how much you care. Send this to everyone you consider a FRIEND.
Swiftness in Business vs Endurance
Chapter 1. Introduction .
I have read several chapters in the book and have been very impressed and thankful for the guidance given. The first chapter made me reflect on past achievement and failures. I have had many opportunities to succeed greatly in life but do to my bad judgment and decisions I am busted again. G_d I hate the thought of failing again. I have been blessed to meet some people on my journey through life that have been key to past success however short lived. One was man named Irv who mentored me in real estate investing ion Miami. With no money just the desire I purchased two homes. I was well on my way to five and I am sure a much greater success ahead. I came across a home that I would have bought and sold the same hour with a forty thousand dollar profit but because I didn't want to pay someone fifteen thousand I lost that deal . Later by someone else I was sued for failure to fulfill a contract because of my failure to replace ten windows promptly. The reason for not acting promptly is I was trying to say money by looking for the better deal than just going out and purchasing. I accept the fault . These two failures ended my success as a real estate investor. Later perhaps a couple of years down the road I owned a small trucking company and got angry one day and fired my driver and went bankruptcy and lost my homestead. I now don't even remember today what was angry about. But I can remember but I do remember earning sixty dollars an hour gross pay, twenty four hours a day every day whether I worked or not. Boy I hate my failures as a decision maker. The last venture I had lasted only 8 months before sabotaged it. I was a party planner of sorts with an average income of fifty- seven hundreds dollars a week. Again to my regret I was not able to control my anger and again fired my employees. I hope I have learned that there is a marriage between employer and employee and that compromises have to be made in that relationship, that is if you are in it for the long ride.I have the desire and will to succeed I just don’t know how to endure. Dr. Hill says that age is of no factor in success. So despite my age there is time left for my creating enduring success. You know like the bible says "The race is not to the swift but to those who endure." I am swift but not enduring and I recognize that I have a major problem. I have been married several times . Will I ever learn? Perhaps the answer is I start the business and let someone else run it. Perhaps there is an correction that I can use for my perfection in business. Please if you have the answer or have experienced this phenomenon and have found a solution please leave a comment.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Dear Mr. President
Thank you for your embodiment of the "Amercan Dream". You have made an impact on the world with you graciousness and intelligience. I am forever greatful for the inspiration you give. I have an questiion about your transportation, infrastructure and fuel policy for the United States. Sir, I believe that you stimulus package was the right idea. History has shown us that from the great deperssion and the building of the United States Interstate Highway system and other civil service projects of that time and after world war II that the effrts creat meanigful work. Please continue to build and provide jobs. The oil man Pickens during the election had a enregy plan that would cost 150 billion dollars over a ten year period. During the election I believe I heard you the candidate mentioned something of budgeting 15 billion dollars per year for 10 years to energy. Was I correct and if so are you still going to do that? Oil corporations have and are playing financial games with the Amercan people. With record profits exceeding each of the previous years in the billions each year. a concerted effort really needs to be donefor the economic welfare of the population. The bible says the poor will always be with us, and if you give to the poor you loan to God. God is self sufficent and needs no contributions.The depletion of the worlds fossil fuels to below the half way mark will causecatastrophic thought pattern of alarm and that alone will drive up cost to nine to twelve dollars per gallon of gas by in 20 years or less. You know that this is the time for a strong and President used the good examples givent to him by past examples. President Nixon and the CETA program, Reagan's commuication skills, Roosevelt, and Lincoln.
Sincerely.
Gas what a Rip - Off...
So call your Congress person, Senator and the President to correct this situation... Keep our transportation fuel cost down.
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Feb 18, 2009
– Crude oil prices have fallen to new lows for this year. So you'd think gas prices would sink right along with them.
Not so.
On Thursday, for example, crude oil closed just under $34 a barrel, its lowest point for 2009. But the national average price of a gallon of gas rose to $1.95 on the same day, its peak for the year. On Friday gas went a penny higher.
To drivers once again grimacing as they tank up, it sounds like a conspiracy. But it has more to do with an energy market turned upside-down that has left gas cut off from its usual economic moorings.
The price of gas is indeed tied to oil. It's just a matter of which oil.
The benchmark for crude oil prices is West Texas Intermediate, drilled exactly where you would imagine. That's the price, set at the New York Mercantile Exchange, that you see quoted on business channels and in the morning paper.
Right now, in an unusual market trend, West Texas crude is selling for much less than inferior grades of crude from other places around the world. A severe economic downturn has left U.S. storage facilities brimming with it, sending prices for the premium crude to five-year lows.
But it is the overseas crude that goes into most of the gas made in the United States. So prices at the pump will probably keep going up no matter what happens to the benchmark price of crude oil.
"We're going definitely over $2, and I bet we'll hit $2.50 before spring," said Tom Kloza, publisher and chief oil analyst at Oil Price Information Service. "This is going to be an unusual year."
On the last day of 2008, gas went for $1.62 on average, according to the auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and Wright Express, a company that tracks transportation data.
The recession in America has dramatically cut demand for crude oil, and inventories are piling up. So prices for West Texas crude have fallen well below what oil costs from places like the North Sea, Saudi Arabia and South America.
That foreign oil sells in some cases for $10 more per barrel — and that doesn't even include shipping.
Brent North Sea crude, which feeds some East Coast refineries — and therefore winds up at many gas pumps around America — now costs about $7 more per barrel than the West Texas crude. Deutsche Bank analysts say the trend should continue.
Historically, West Texas International crude has cost more. So nobody bothered building the necessary pipelines to carry it beyond the nearby refineries in the Midwest, parts of Texas and a handful of other places.
Now that the premium oil is suddenly very inexpensive, refiners elsewhere can't get their hands on it.
"It's so cheap," said Lynn Westphall, the senior VP of external affairs at San Antonio-based Tesoro, which owns a half dozen refineries on the West Coast and Hawaii. "But you can't just build a pipeline to everywhere. We know we can't get it."
Tesoro's refineries in North Dakota and Utah use locally drilled oil and Canadian oil, which also has been running about $10 more per barrel than West Texas crude.
So why not build more pipelines? Because investing billions of dollars over several years makes no sense when the prices could just flip a year from now to where they were before.
"How long is WTI going to be cheaper than Venezuelan oil? Than Canadian?" asked Charles T. Drevna, president of the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association. "You just don't build a pipeline like that."
At the same time, refiners have seen the same headlines as everyone else about job losses and consumer spending. They've slashed production just to avoid taking losses on gasoline no one will buy. Result: Higher gas prices.
"Why should a refiner produce more gasoline when the stuff we produce is not being used?" Drevna said.
Of course, complex explanations of the diverging price paths of West Texas crude and gas are unlikely to placate frustrated drivers. Memories of last summer's $4-plus gas have not receded.
"Drivers are being ripped off even more now than before," said Stuart Pollok, who was filling up recently at a Chevron station in downtown Los Angeles. He pointed out Exxon Mobil Corp. reeled in billions in profits last year when oil prices neared $150.
Others see the conspiracy reaching higher.
"It got really low during the elections and now it's going back up," said Christel Sayegh, a 23-year-old graphic designer in Los Angeles. "They do that every election, though, right?"
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AP Energy Writer John Porretto reported this story from Houston. Associated Press Writers Jennifer Malloy and Ryan Nakashima in Los Angeles contributed to this story.
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So call your Congress person, Senator and the President to correct this situation... Keep our transportation fuel cost down.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Master Minds
Color of change .org
A new report in The Nation[1] documents what many have claimed for years--for some Black New Orleanians the threat of being killed by White vigilantes in Katrina's aftermath became a bigger threat than the storm itself.
After the storm, White vigilantes roamed Algiers Point shooting and, according to their own accounts, killing Black men at will--with no threat of a police response. For the last three years, the shootings and the police force's role in them have been an open secret to many New Orleanians. To date, no one has been charged with a crime and law enforcement officials have refused to investigate.
The report is helpful, but given Lousiana's horrible record on protecting its Black citizens, justice will only come if we demand it.
I've joined ColorOfChange in calling on Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Louisiana's Attorney General Buddy Caldwell, and the U.S. Department of Justice--to conduct a full investigation of these crimes and any police cover-up. Will you join me? It takes only a moment:
http://www.colorofchange.org/nation/?id=1993-808872
In the two weeks after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, the media created a climate of fear with trumped-up stories of Black lawlessness. Meanwhile an armed group of White vigilantes took over the Algiers Point neighborhood in New Orleans and mercilessly hunted down Black people. "It was great!" said one vigilante. "It was like pheasant season in South Dakota. If it moved, you shot it."
The Nation's article tells the story of Donnell Herrington, Marcel Alexander, and Chris Collins--a group of friends who were attacked by shotgun-wielding White men as they entered Algiers Point on September 1, 2005. As they tried to escape, Herrington recalls, their attackers shouted, "Get him! Get that nigger!" He managed to get away. Alexander and Collins were told that they would be allowed to live on the condition that they told other Black folks not to come to Algiers Point. Herrington, shot in the neck, barely survived.
And there's the story of Henry Glover, who didn't survive after being shot by an unknown assailant.[2] Glover's brother flagged down a stranger for help, and the two men brought Glover to a police station. But instead of receiving aid, they were beaten by officers while Henry Glover bled to death in the back seat of the stranger's car. A police officer drove off in the car soon afterward. Both Glover's body and the car were found burnt to cinders a week later. It took DNA analysis to identify the body.
These are only a few of the stories of Black folks who were accosted in Algiers Point, and you can read more in The Nation. But unless you speak out, we may never learn the full extent of the violence. Journalists have encountered a wall of silence on the part of the authorities. The coroner had to be sued to turn over autopsy records. When he finally complied, the records were incomplete, with files on several suspicious deaths suddenly empty. The New Orleans police and the District Attorney repeatedly refused to talk to journalists about Algiers Point. And according to The Nation journalist A.C. Thompson, "the city has in nearly every case refused to investigate or prosecute people for assaults and murders committed in the wake of the storm."
The Nation article is important, but it's just a start. For more than three years now, these racist criminals have by their own admission gotten away with murder while officials in New Orleans have systematically evaded any kind of accountability. We have to demand it.
Please join me in calling on state and federal officials to investigate these brutal attacks and the conduct of Orleans Parish law enforcement agencies, and please ask your friends and family to do the same.
http://www.colorofchange.org/nation/?id=1993-808872
Thanks.
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1. "Katrina's Hidden Race War," The Nation, 12-18-2008http://www.colorofchange.org/link/?id=1993-808872&cat=nation&link=1
2. "Body of Evidence," The Nation, 12-18-2008http://www.colorofchange.org/link/?id=1993-808872&cat=nation&link=2
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Definition of Genius? Dictionary .com
gen·ius
(jēn'yəs) Pronunciation Key n. pl. gen·ius·es
Extraordinary intellectual and creative power.
- A person of extraordinary intellect and talent: "One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius" (Simone de Beauvoir).
- A person who has an exceptionally high intelligence quotient, typically above 140.
- A strong natural talent, aptitude, or inclination: has a genius for choosing the right words.
- One who has such a talent or inclination: a genius at diplomacy.
- A strong natural talent, aptitude, or inclination: has a genius for choosing the right words.
- One who has such a talent or inclination: a genius at diplomacy.
- The prevailing spirit or distinctive character, as of a place, a person, or an era: the genius of Elizabethan England.
- pl. ge·ni·i (jē'nē-ī') Roman Mythology A tutelary deity or guardian spirit of a person or place.
- A person who has great influence over another.
- A jinni in Muslim mythology.
A person who uses his creative imagination much more than others. Remember to hydrate your brain for sharper electrial impulses.
Energy Transmutaion
"The Mystery of Sex Transmutation".
In the first sentence Hill states what he means by 'transmute', changing a form of energy into another. Then number 3. jumps out at me. Transforming mediocrity into genius. This intense, power is within us when we flip the switch from thoughts of physical expression to creative effort...The discovery of this may lift us to genius. People who use the Sixth Sense, this creative imagination freely and with understanding are genii. They have the direct link between their finite mind and the mind of the InfiniteIntelligence. When ideas flash into our minds, they come from SOMEWHERE. Either the Infinite Intel-ligence, my subconscious mind, another person's mind who released the idea through conscious thought or from another person's subconscious storehouse. When our mind is stimulated by one or more ofthe ten in the list it is vibrating at a higherrate. We are then lifted to this higher planeof thought. Creativity is freed for action.
Our sixth sense becomes willing and quick to receive knowledge or ideas. This can only be developed by use.
Highly sexed people have an energy of charisma. When this force is improved, refined and understood it is used to great advantage in relationships between people.
People are drawn to this energy, like a moth to light. Leaders must have the quality of creativeimagination. Many times it is discovered,it responds, and it is used as a result ofthe stimulation of love. We all possess this sex energy, or whatordinary people accept as the sex urge,but ordinary people do not understand it potential. The genius controls and changes this desire into some OTHER FORM of desire and actionwhich lifts them to higher levels of creativeimagination. I learn from this chapter if you LACK sex energy, you will never become enthusiastic or inspire others with intense emotion. Changing this form of energy calls for great will power. Those who find it difficult to call it to action may gain this ability and the reward is worth the effort. When the sex desire and the emotion of love are mixed, when these two beautiful emotions are blended, this brings about a state ofmind that becomes spiritual.
Ignorance or indifference of sex, love and romance causes interest to die in a partner. Sadly it is a slow death. The end of the chapter reveals that men are motivated by a force to please the right woman of their choice. This powerful motivation helps men achieve success.
Michael and Linda, your love for each otheris a shining example for the rest of us from the heart of one, who wants to 'get this' ...my effort will be rewarded.
Connie Loeschen~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~