This story was part of a class I’m taking from my employer. I thought it was funny and a great lesson for lots of businesses. The story goes that a certain number of monkeys are placed in a large cage. From the ceiling of the cage hangs a bunch of bananas with a stepladder underneath. [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2008’
Op-Ed Contributor – The Climate for Change – NYTimes.com
It has started. In this New york Times Op-Ed by Al Gore, The Climate for Change, he puts forth his five part plan to save the world. And the US economy. Now that’s serious scope creep. Good ole’ Al is going to save the planet and the US!
Pray for America
Senator John McCain is giving his speech conceding the presidency. The MoveOn democrats think they just won. They’ve got another think coming. Obama is so much more than that. The next four years are going to be terrifying. This will be a true test of the Constitution of the United States of America. We’ll find [...]
National Security Force
“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded.” -Barack Obama, July 2, 2008, Colorado Springs, Colorado. The DOD base budget for 2008 was [...]
Election update
As of this moment NBC is showing 175 Obama and 76 McCain.
Voted
I got in line at exactly 7:00 AM. I walked out the door after casting my ballot at 9:00. From what I’m seeing on the news, two hours to vote is a short wait. On my ballot there were three constitutional amendment propositions. Inside the boxes below is what was on the ballot. None of [...]
Election Day
Most of the polls on the East Coast open in 7 hours to start the most important Presidential year elections in my lifetime. I hope most who vote today have taken the time to get to know the positions each candidate takes and the impact that will have on our lives. This goes beyond the [...]
Annals of Democracy: The vote
The New Yorker has a very interesting article about the history of voting methods.
