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Heard on “Morning Joe”
From Donnie Deutsch of Deutsch Advertising: “every one of the people I know who supported Obama last time around has switched”. Joe Scarborough: “It’s strange, when we’re out talking with Obama supporters, we don’t hear an impassioned reason for supporting Obama this time around. Not like last time”.
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Joe Scarborough: Moving past right-wing rhetoric
We get it, Sarah Palin. You’re not morally culpable for the tragic shooting in Tucson, Ariz. All of us around the “Morning Joe” table agree, even if we were stunned that you would whine about yourself on Facebook as a shattered family prepared to bury their 9-year-old girl.
The same goes for you, Glenn Beck. You’ve [...]
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Napoleon Hill
“Who said it could not be done? And tell me what great victories does he have to his credit which qualifies him to judge what can and can’t be accomplished.” –Napoleon Hill….
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Palin’s Contract
In case you’re thinking about hiring Sarah Palin to speak at your next event, make sure you provide the following per Palin’s recent contract at a previous speaking event. A published story talks about the Palin contract:
“The contract detailed the former Alaska governor’s requirements for her visit, including first-class flights from Anchorage to California — [...]
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1984 Apple’s Macintosh Commercial
This was the commercial that introduced the Apple Macintosh Computer to the world.
“1984″ is an American television commercial which introduced the Apple Macintosh personal computer for the first time. It was conceived by Steve Hayden, Brent Thomas and Lee Clow at Chiat/Day, Venice, produced by New York production company Fairbanks Films, and directed by Ridley Scott. Anya Major performed as the unnamed heroine and David Graham as Big Brother. Its only U.S. daytime televised broadcast was on January 22, 1984 during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII. Chiat/Day also ran the ad one other time on television, in December 1983 right before the 1:00 am sign-off on KMVT in Twin Falls, Idaho, so that the advertisement could be submitted to award ceremonies for that year. In addition, starting on January 17, 1984 it was screened prior to previews in movie theaters for a few weeks. It has since been seen on television commercial compilation specials, as well as in “Retro-mercials” on TV Land. The Estate of George Orwell and the television rightsholder to the novel 1984 considered the commercial to be a flagrant copyright infringement, and sent a cease-and-desist letter to Apple and Chiat/Day in April 1984. The commercial was never televised as a commercial after that. wikipedia
Summary: in this article David Brooks argues that the problem with jobs is innovation. Innovation which used to lead the way in all areas, helping to create new jobs, has slowed.
“The roots of great innovation are never just in the technology itself. They require new ways of seeing. As Einstein put it, “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.””
Let’s imagine that someone from the year 1970 miraculously traveled forward in time to today. You could show her one of the iPhones that Steve Jobs helped create, and she’d be thunderstruck. People back then imagined wireless communication (Dick Tracy, Star Trek), but they never imagined you could funnel an entire world’s worth of information through a pocket-sized device.
David Brooks
The time traveler would be vibrating with excitement. She’d want to know what other technological marvels had been invented in the past 41 years. She’d ask about space colonies on Mars, flying cars, superfast nuclear-powered airplanes, artificial organs. She’d want to know how doctors ended up curing cancer and senility.
Do American generals want to keep fighting in Afghanistan? Hello !!! Of course they do.
That’s what they’ve been trained to do for years and years. They will always believe that they can be victorious. They’ll say it’s just a question of more troops, more equipment, a different strategy, or any number of other things they believe they need. They want to fight battles and they want to win for the good of the country. It’s what they do. No general wants to stop fighting if the job isn’t done, because they will always believe that they can turn things around. What are they to do if we pull out of Afghanistan? Go back to sitting at their desks thinking about war strategy?
Don’t get me wrong. They should be leading troops and we trained them to do that. That’s their role in life. And we want them to always be ready to fight…But many generals will never willingly give up the battle until someone above them says “Enough”. So when you listen to the generals who say ”continue the war”, keep the above in mind.
WASHINGTON — Since announcing his run for the presidency, Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) has had to fend off allegations of crony capitalism. Such critiques have revealed the governor’s easy relationships with lobbyists, and his awarding campaign donors government contracts and influential positions on state boards. But Perry has also personally profited from these same relationships. His own deal making has helped him become a millionaire, and it has not gone unnoticed.
In the late ’90s, federal law enforcement authorities investigated allegations that Perry had engaged in insider trading, sources involved in the inquiry tell The Huffington Post.
On Jan. 24, 1996, Perry purchased 2,800 shares of stock in a company, Kinetic Concepts, Inc., owned by a San Antonio businessman soon to be one of Perry’s top donors, James Leininger. It was great timing. Later that day, a group of investors bought up 2.2 million shares in the company, sending the price soaring and netting Perry a nice gain.
Inside Health Policy
New Bipartisan Lobby Shop Opens With Focus On CMS, FDA
Posted: September 29, 2011
A new Washington-based lobbying firm that includes two long-standing CMS and FDA lobbyists coupled with a major Democratic fundraiser has already amassed approximately a dozen clients and could become a major player as the medical industry tries to protect itself from cost-cutting proposals floated as part of Congress’ deficit reduction exercise and the FDA user fee debate on Capitol Hill heats up.
The firm — Roberti+White, LLC — is pitching itself as bipartisan and covering a wide-variety of issues, albeit with a strong background in health care from partner Rich White’s 15 years working on coverage and reimbursement policy coupled with partner Steve Irizarry’s background in FDA approval from being a lead congressional negotiator on user fees during the early Bush administration. Their background in health is coupled with partner Vin Roberti’s two decades of advising clients on finance and communications, and his close ties to Democrats as he provides messaging assistance ahead of the 2012 election.
As Rick Perry might say, “It really ain’t that hard.”
If you’re a Northeast elite hoping to crack the code on GOP presidential primaries while impressing your friends at Fifth Avenue dinner parties with insightful political prognostications, always remember one simple rule: Crazy never wins.
You heard right, my Upper West Side friend. Crazy. Never. Wins.
Despite the crop of nutty right-wing candidates that sprout up in GOP presidential fields every four years, despite the gasps and growls that regularly rise from Manhattan cocktail parties aimed at extremists who are hijacking the Republican Party (in ways that past GOP extremists would never have dreamed of hijacking the party), despite the cries from right-wing radio hosts predicting the rise of Ronald Reagan’s ghost and the nomination of an unelectable candidate, in the end this political chatter always proves to be sound and fury signifying nothing.
A few caveats to my rule: (1) Thank you very much for the invitations to your Manhattan cocktail parties. Anything written in the preceding paragraphs should not be interpreted to suggest that I am not delighted by your company or future invitations to said events; and (2) Reagan was never the right-wing tool that talk show hosts claim.
- 2 glasses of water after waking every morning helps activate the internal organs;
- 1 glass of water 30 minutes before a meal helps digestion;
- 1 glass of water before taking a bath can lower blood pressure;
- 1 glass of water before going to bed can prevent stroke or heart attack.
AOl reported that it’s buying the internet site techcrunch.com to add to their online news presence.
SAN FRANCISCO — AOL said on Tuesday that it was buying the influential technology news blog TechCrunch to bolster its growing online editorial business. The deal, signed on stage at a TechCrunch conference here, will add to AOL’s technology coverage, which also includes the gadget blog Engadget.
By Federica Rabiolo
“Why does it bother you so much when I bring up that you’re Italian?” – “I absolutely hate being the center of attention.” What at the time I thought was an honest answer to a question I get asked frequently, I later realized was a spurious statement. Honestly, I am simply concerned by the flood of questions that arise when people finally learn that it was not my great-grandfather who immigrated here, but that I actually stepped off a plane less than six years ago.
Tom Friedman talks about the need for a third party that will represent the “Radical Center”
A Tea Party Without Nuts
Published: March 23, 2010
President Obama’s winning passage of national health care is both exhilarating and sobering. Covering so many uninsured Americans is a historic achievement. But the president had to postpone trips, buy off companies and cut every conceivable side deal to just barely make it happen, without a single Republican vote. If the Democrats now lose seats in the midterm elections, we’re headed for even worse gridlock, even though we still have so much more nation-building for America to do — from education to energy to environment to innovation to tax policy. That is why I want my own Tea Party. I want a Tea Party of the radical center.
Say what? I write often about innovation in energy and education. But I’ve come to realize that none of these innovations will emerge at scale until we get the most important innovation of all — political innovation that will empower independents and centrists, which describes a lot of the country.
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