What's a carpetbagger? Who are the carpetbaggers that COME down on the South from the NORTH?
September 19, 2007
The Contented Fisherman by Father Anthony de Mello, SJ
The rich industrialist from the North was horrified to find the Southern fisherman lying lazily beside his boat, smoking a pipe.
"Why aren't you out fishing?" said the industrialist.
"Because I have caught enough fish for the day," said the fisherman.
"Why don't you catch some more?"
"What would I do with it?"
"You could earn more money" was the reply. "With that you could have a motor fixed to your boat and go into deeper waters and catch more fish.
"Then you would make enough to buy nylon nets. These would bring you more fish and more money. Soon you would have enough money to own two boats . . . maybe even a fleet of boats. The you would be a rich man like me."
"What would I do then?"
"The you could really enjoy life."
"What do you think I am doing right now?"
Which would you rather have: a fortune or a capacity for enjoyment?
Friday, December 9, 2011
Where in the hell is your soul?
Where in the hell is your soul or Seoul, Korea? I say it's in your gentle areas!!!
Have fun by feeling yourself up, get off and then relax. Don't you feel better?
Have fun by feeling yourself up, get off and then relax. Don't you feel better?
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
My take on -- Healthcare is Broken - We have a Solutions and Need your Help
Note: The following is an email to George Bickerstaff, Investor and Philanthropist, Chairman of The Global Leaders, http://www.linkedin.com/in/bickerstaff , gbickerstaff@tgleaders.com, www.tgleaders.com. The details of his health care conference follows, see below.
George,
If you need another speaker with a new and interesting idea on the medical industrial complex, "the death industry", for your health care conference in San Francisco, on January 10th, (see below) you might want to hire me on the cheap. The medical industrial complex, which is a large segment, but not necessary all of America's health care system, is what's breaking the health care system, the budgets of individuals, families, businesses, the government and this society, in general. The complex is made up of all products and services offered on the "free market" that intentionally or unintentionally maim and kill people, through Godlessness, arrogance, insanity triggering the need for unnecessary medical interventions that lead to wrong diagnoses, surgeries, treatments, to the heavy use of drugs and medications, bad insurance products, over-billing by hospitals and doctor's offices and to one's ultimate death.
Health care, in general, treats symptoms to the many of man's underlining spiritual and emotional problems (all the many taboo subjects and stigmatizing illnesses and diseases that society rejects in great shame) that go untreated manifesting themselves into mental health and/or physical health problems. Just name your favorite illness, injury or disease. "The doctors practice on their patients" and "if you stay in the hospital long enough they will kill you." That's what the wise repeatedly tell me.
Name any industry and it has it share of corporations profiting from their insane ideology of profits before lives, before people instead people before profits. Our government is heavy engaged in supporting this complex, along with their support of the military industrial complex. This insanity is what's driving our healthcare cost through the roof. This is the basic idea that I came away with after recently adding the Harvard Medical School, Penn Medical School and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to my audience.
The Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School have roughly two or three hundred business and law professors, respectively, but the Harvard Medical School has over 8,100 physicians, professors and researchers teaching and working at the university and at 22-affiliated hospitals in the Boston-area. They get a lot of research money to invent new medical problems or patient symptoms and devices that Medicare (and thus the health insurance industry) recognizes and pays for leading to expensive and often unnecessary medical interventions for "extending" life or for killing life "while they take you to the cleaners".
We need to identify these insane corporations and their dangerous products and undermine them or counter their efforts. We need to get this message out. We need wake people up including all those working at these companies and industries or, at least, have an general understanding of the true problem, sit back, do nothing and watch the insanity of our ancient society march onward. The wise know when to act, when to do their dance and when not to. Within every individual, family, institution and organization, government and society there is embedded, both, the good and the bad, the "Force" and the "Dark Side", heaven and hell. Which side are you on? Do you live in heaven or hell?
Many of us have all experienced the above to our determent, hopefully the journey has led us to the truth or, at least, the process is underway. We were all born free, but sold into slavery, out of great fear, by our well-meaning parents and family, our well-meaning religions, our well-meaning schools, our well-meaning governments, our well-meaning military, our well-meaning economic system, our well-meaning society and by America's not so "free and friendly markets".
So, is this human nature, I don't really know. Freedom, democracy and the efficient allocation of resources seems to work better in the animal kingdom where they operate on instinct rather than on hard data, logic and reasoning while man ignores his gut instincts. They see the truth and evolve with their changing environment while other species go extinct. They know life and death, we know neither. They know when and how much to eat, rest, sleep, mate and when to defend their turf. It's the bare essentials to living a full life, this is something that's been lost by most in our hectic society who are trying to get somewhere while forgetting their roots.
Let me know.
Ted
Enjoy,
Ted Burnett
500 Lincoln St. B-105
Daphne, AL 36526 USA
C: 251-709-3726
Email: tebjr1@yahoo.com
My blog: www.toxicnation.blogspot.com
My bio: www.tedburnettresume.blogspot.com
Question everything.
Announcement from George Bickerstaff's Network
We have over 150 CEO and mega investors, who control over one TRILLION in revenue and resources, joining us on January 10th in San Francisco to help solve the healthcare crisis.
I would like you and your company to be a part of this because bad healthcare kills everyone always. We owe good, affordable healthcare to everyone, everywhere.
You can learn more by watching the attached video (http://videos.sorensonmedia.com/Corp+Shorts/TGL+Healthcare+Conf+2011_rev/1b947d6485eeac40cf089c7S978de79101a9), or going to our web site (www.tgleaders-healthcare.blogspot.com), or filling out a question for our CEOs, or nominating yourself or a high potential friend to be a TGL Fellow where you can get free entrance and become part of the CEO team at (http://www.tgleaders.blogspot.com/p/future-global-leaders-past-award.html).
You can register to attend the January 10th San Francisco at http://tglhealthcaresymposium.eventbrite.com/?ref=ecount
We are connecting the most powerful people in the world, with the most money in the world, with the best ideas in the world to first help fix the healthcare crisis, and then the rest.
Please join us.
Sincerely,
George Bickerstaff
Investor and Philanthropist
Chairman of The Global Leaders
http://www.linkedin.com/in/bickerstaff
gbickerstaff@tgleaders.com
www.tgleaders.com
George,
If you need another speaker with a new and interesting idea on the medical industrial complex, "the death industry", for your health care conference in San Francisco, on January 10th, (see below) you might want to hire me on the cheap. The medical industrial complex, which is a large segment, but not necessary all of America's health care system, is what's breaking the health care system, the budgets of individuals, families, businesses, the government and this society, in general. The complex is made up of all products and services offered on the "free market" that intentionally or unintentionally maim and kill people, through Godlessness, arrogance, insanity triggering the need for unnecessary medical interventions that lead to wrong diagnoses, surgeries, treatments, to the heavy use of drugs and medications, bad insurance products, over-billing by hospitals and doctor's offices and to one's ultimate death.
Health care, in general, treats symptoms to the many of man's underlining spiritual and emotional problems (all the many taboo subjects and stigmatizing illnesses and diseases that society rejects in great shame) that go untreated manifesting themselves into mental health and/or physical health problems. Just name your favorite illness, injury or disease. "The doctors practice on their patients" and "if you stay in the hospital long enough they will kill you." That's what the wise repeatedly tell me.
Name any industry and it has it share of corporations profiting from their insane ideology of profits before lives, before people instead people before profits. Our government is heavy engaged in supporting this complex, along with their support of the military industrial complex. This insanity is what's driving our healthcare cost through the roof. This is the basic idea that I came away with after recently adding the Harvard Medical School, Penn Medical School and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to my audience.
The Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School have roughly two or three hundred business and law professors, respectively, but the Harvard Medical School has over 8,100 physicians, professors and researchers teaching and working at the university and at 22-affiliated hospitals in the Boston-area. They get a lot of research money to invent new medical problems or patient symptoms and devices that Medicare (and thus the health insurance industry) recognizes and pays for leading to expensive and often unnecessary medical interventions for "extending" life or for killing life "while they take you to the cleaners".
We need to identify these insane corporations and their dangerous products and undermine them or counter their efforts. We need to get this message out. We need wake people up including all those working at these companies and industries or, at least, have an general understanding of the true problem, sit back, do nothing and watch the insanity of our ancient society march onward. The wise know when to act, when to do their dance and when not to. Within every individual, family, institution and organization, government and society there is embedded, both, the good and the bad, the "Force" and the "Dark Side", heaven and hell. Which side are you on? Do you live in heaven or hell?
Many of us have all experienced the above to our determent, hopefully the journey has led us to the truth or, at least, the process is underway. We were all born free, but sold into slavery, out of great fear, by our well-meaning parents and family, our well-meaning religions, our well-meaning schools, our well-meaning governments, our well-meaning military, our well-meaning economic system, our well-meaning society and by America's not so "free and friendly markets".
So, is this human nature, I don't really know. Freedom, democracy and the efficient allocation of resources seems to work better in the animal kingdom where they operate on instinct rather than on hard data, logic and reasoning while man ignores his gut instincts. They see the truth and evolve with their changing environment while other species go extinct. They know life and death, we know neither. They know when and how much to eat, rest, sleep, mate and when to defend their turf. It's the bare essentials to living a full life, this is something that's been lost by most in our hectic society who are trying to get somewhere while forgetting their roots.
Let me know.
Ted
Enjoy,
Ted Burnett
500 Lincoln St. B-105
Daphne, AL 36526 USA
C: 251-709-3726
Email: tebjr1@yahoo.com
My blog: www.toxicnation.blogspot.com
My bio: www.tedburnettresume.blogspot.com
Question everything.
Announcement from George Bickerstaff's Network
We have over 150 CEO and mega investors, who control over one TRILLION in revenue and resources, joining us on January 10th in San Francisco to help solve the healthcare crisis.
I would like you and your company to be a part of this because bad healthcare kills everyone always. We owe good, affordable healthcare to everyone, everywhere.
You can learn more by watching the attached video (http://videos.sorensonmedia.com/Corp+Shorts/TGL+Healthcare+Conf+2011_rev/1b947d6485eeac40cf089c7S978de79101a9), or going to our web site (www.tgleaders-healthcare.blogspot.com), or filling out a question for our CEOs, or nominating yourself or a high potential friend to be a TGL Fellow where you can get free entrance and become part of the CEO team at (http://www.tgleaders.blogspot.com/p/future-global-leaders-past-award.html).
You can register to attend the January 10th San Francisco at http://tglhealthcaresymposium.eventbrite.com/?ref=ecount
We are connecting the most powerful people in the world, with the most money in the world, with the best ideas in the world to first help fix the healthcare crisis, and then the rest.
Please join us.
Sincerely,
George Bickerstaff
Investor and Philanthropist
Chairman of The Global Leaders
http://www.linkedin.com/in/bickerstaff
gbickerstaff@tgleaders.com
www.tgleaders.com
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Oprah Winfrey's 2008 Stanford Commencement Address
Oprah Winfrey's 2008 Stanford Commencement Address
Enjoy!
Ted
Oprah Winfrey's 2008 Stanford Commencement Address
Enjoy!
Ted
Oprah Winfrey's 2008 Stanford Commencement Address
JK Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech -- June 5 2008
JK Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech -- June 5 2008
Enjoy!
Ted
JK Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech Part 1
J.K.Rowling speaking at Harvard Speech Part 2
JK Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech Part 2
JK Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech Part 3
JK Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech Part 3
Enjoy!
Ted
JK Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech Part 1
J.K.Rowling speaking at Harvard Speech Part 2
JK Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech Part 2
JK Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech Part 3
JK Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech Part 3
Denzel Washington: Commencement Address at Penn -- May 16, 2011
Denzel Washington -- Commencement Address at the University of Pennsylvania -- May 16, 2011
Enjoy!
Ted
Denzel Washington -- Commencement Address at the University of Pennsylvania 2011
Enjoy!
Ted
Denzel Washington -- Commencement Address at the University of Pennsylvania 2011
Netflix -- If you don't have an account, get one. Disregard all the bad press.
For only $8/month, you can get unlimited access to most of Netflix's library on demand without the guilt of not using Netflix for a month or two. This is better than a gym membership, you get to use it from the comforts of your own home, 24-hours a day, while dressed or undressed, at the local coffeehouse, public library or anywhere you can find a hotspot.
Here's some of my favorite documentaries and films that I've enjoyed watching instantly on my computer and learning some new truths about what's really happening in America and around the world. Expand your mind, expand your world. Open your mind, open your heart to new ideas and people.
Make your world the size of our actual world (27,000 miles in circumference) with its seven billion inhabitants living on seven continents and swimming in our five oceans. Remember that our turning planet orbits the sun daily in our ever-expanding universe. Live life to the fullest, start living in the NOW!!
Here are of my personal favorites that I recommend you watching...
Enjoy!
Ted
1.) The Corporation
2.) A Man Named Pearl
3.) Philadelphia
4.) Panama Deception
5.) Blue Gold World Water Wars
6.) Fuel
7.) A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
8.) Collapse
9.) The Last Word
10.) Exit Through the Gift Shop
11.) Van Gogh: Brush with Genius
12.) For the Bible Tells Me So
13.) Everything's Cool
14.) 911: In Plane Site
15.) The Party's Over
16.) The War on Democracy
17.) No End in Sight
18.) Independent Intervention
19.) GasHole
20.) Fidel
21.) National Geographic Talibanistan
22.) American Beauty
23.) Forrest Gump
24.) Star Wars (There's truly a "Force" and a "Dark Side" that's weaved through all of life and the universe. This is true at all levels -- among individuals, families, institutions and organizations, governments and societies. Which side are you on?)
Here's some of my favorite documentaries and films that I've enjoyed watching instantly on my computer and learning some new truths about what's really happening in America and around the world. Expand your mind, expand your world. Open your mind, open your heart to new ideas and people.
Make your world the size of our actual world (27,000 miles in circumference) with its seven billion inhabitants living on seven continents and swimming in our five oceans. Remember that our turning planet orbits the sun daily in our ever-expanding universe. Live life to the fullest, start living in the NOW!!
Here are of my personal favorites that I recommend you watching...
Enjoy!
Ted
1.) The Corporation
2.) A Man Named Pearl
3.) Philadelphia
4.) Panama Deception
5.) Blue Gold World Water Wars
6.) Fuel
7.) A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
8.) Collapse
9.) The Last Word
10.) Exit Through the Gift Shop
11.) Van Gogh: Brush with Genius
12.) For the Bible Tells Me So
13.) Everything's Cool
14.) 911: In Plane Site
15.) The Party's Over
16.) The War on Democracy
17.) No End in Sight
18.) Independent Intervention
19.) GasHole
20.) Fidel
21.) National Geographic Talibanistan
22.) American Beauty
23.) Forrest Gump
24.) Star Wars (There's truly a "Force" and a "Dark Side" that's weaved through all of life and the universe. This is true at all levels -- among individuals, families, institutions and organizations, governments and societies. Which side are you on?)
Saturday, December 3, 2011
"Global Warming" by Artist Nall Hollis
May this artist's take on Global Warming warm your heart and make you think positive thoughts.
Global Warming by Artist Nall Hollis
NOTE: After "CLICK"-ing on this above link, "click" on the image, or icon, to enjoy the full effect.
Enjoy!
Ted
© Copyright NALL 2005 - 2011
more about Nall, Nall Hollis' website
Global Warming by Artist Nall Hollis
NOTE: After "CLICK"-ing on this above link, "click" on the image, or icon, to enjoy the full effect.
Enjoy!
Ted
© Copyright NALL 2005 - 2011
more about Nall, Nall Hollis' website
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