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Race Discussions in America

Posted in analysis of behavior, anthropology, tagged , , , , , , on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A strange dialogue takes place in America on a daily basis.  It’s not quite about race, but around it.  The various TV and radio personalities spew their ratings fueled rants.  The White House plops out carefully crafted press statements.  Blogs and the internet spill forth with anonymous dumps of hatred. All these things have something [...]

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Money, Money and More Money; Obama, McCain, Gates & Bernanke

Posted in analysis of behavior, behavior, business strategy, economics, finance, government, media, musings, politics, public policy, taxes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

At the delayed morning meeting with an attorney that hates attorneys, we got around to talking about the money… yeah, THAT money. There is the Stimulus Package I & II, the normal government loads to states, the bailout to some banks (but not the ones with a passion for customer loans), the bailout of the [...]

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Presidential Address to Congress Transcript

Posted in politics, tagged , , , , , on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s the transcript from tonight’s Presidential Address to Congress: Get it from the WhiteHouse.gov site. My favorite part: But it is the responsibility of every citizen to participate in it.  And so tonight, I ask every American to commit to at least one year or more of higher education or career training.  This can be [...]

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The Stimulus “Buy American” Clause

Posted in business strategy, economics, finance, politics, taxes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Reproduced with permission from a private e-mail from Mahesh Johari Some quick commentary only today.  The stimulus bill that just passed the House contains a “Buy American” clause, which forces materials purchased using funds from the stimulus package to come from American manufacturers. Intuitively, this sounds both logical and appealing.  If we’re spending our taxpayer [...]

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Christakis, Rube Goldberg and Mythinformation

Posted in analysis of behavior, behavior, biology, brain, intelligent agent, life, media, online advertising, research, science, social networks, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »

They’re at it again. Yes they are… As part of the Rube Goldberg contingent from Mythinformation Central. From the people that brought you “you’re fat because of your friends” you are now presented with: “your genes influence who will become friends.” They set up the straw man: that it is an error to suggest people [...]

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Lie to Me* FOX debut

Posted in analysis of behavior, behavior, biology, brain, hollywood, life, marketing, mathematics, music, philosophy, politics, religion, science, social science, speculation, traffic, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I am so disappointed. Mysticism returns to prime time TV with this inane crime stopper series “LIE to ME*” heralding the star (Tim Roth) and his team’s ability to read people’s faces to tell when they are lying about what. Crimes are just the medium for the law enforcement to clean up with all that [...]

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President Obama’s Inauguration Speech Transcript and Dr. Joseph E. Lowery’s Benediction Transcript

Posted in philosophy, politics, religion, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on January 20, 2009 | 22 Comments »

If you’re looking for Obama’s Inaugration speech transcript ABC news has a decent page with it. CNN does as well. The BENEDICTION transcript is presented below. watch the video: or read the transcript (I found it in the comments posted below [thanks!] and here): Transcript courtesy Federal News Service God of our weary years, God [...]

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Post Inauguration Work

Posted in politics, tagged , , , on January 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »

When the inauguration is over will the work really begin? It is a strange thing to me that while we sink trillions of taxpayer dollars into bailouts and rail against AIG (and others) for spending frivolously, we then throw one of the biggest inaugurations ever.  Who pays for that? What about the loss of productivity [...]

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Is that racism I see coming? Set your phasers to ‘stun’

Posted in analysis of behavior, media, politics, traffic, tagged , , , , , , , on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

We are about to go into a “phase” as my mother used to refer to my dependence on a specific set of terms, ideas or behavior. That phase is going to be around for awhile and it’s going to drive us nuttier than a 4 year presidential election campaign. It is a ‘racism’ phase and [...]

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Death to Political Rants and Soaking in the Political Media Frenzy

Posted in analysis of behavior, media, politics, social networks, tagged , , , , , , , , on September 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Boy is it hard to avoid political rants lately.  At this point, the major campaigns are all rant. The blogs and news outlets are mostly all rant. There is very little INFORMATION, POLICY and ARGUMENT for citizens to evaluate. We can make simple suggestions as to why this is the political process but the real [...]

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