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
"There is Love" (The Wedding Song) by Peter, Paul and Mary
There is Love (The Wedding Song) by Peter, Paul and Mary
There is Love (The Wedding Song) by Peter, Paul and Mary
Enjoy!
Ted
There is Love (The Wedding Song) by Peter, Paul and Mary
Enjoy!
Ted
"Left Behind" by Bryan Duncan
Listen and think about the lyrics. "Left Behind" by Bryan Duncan
"Left Behind" by Bryan Duncan
Enjoy!
Ted
"Left Behind" by Bryan Duncan
Enjoy!
Ted
"Held" by Natalie Grant
A beautiful song with a great message. Take a listen. "Held" by Natalie Grant
"Held" by Natalie Grant
Enjoy!
Ted
"Held" by Natalie Grant
Enjoy!
Ted
Friday, December 2, 2011
Dear Mr. Reggie Copeland, Mobile City Council -- your request has been denied.
December 2, 2011
Mr. Copeland (Mobile City Council Member, District 5),
As a longtime resident of Mobile, AL and a current resident of Daphne, AL, which is a suburb of Mobile, I have a right to communicate, via email, with any and every city official in both cities. What happens in the city of Mobile is broadcasted daily over the airwaves through radio, TV, via the internet and in the Press-Register affecting the lives of citizens on both sides of the bay. Much of the what makes the news is scary stuff. Recently, I have raised allegations of political and law enforcement corruption against two former officials working in the Mobile District Attorney's office, which is located in downtown Mobile.
As a city council member, I would think you might want to know all about this unless you already know all about it. Is this old news to you? Your request to be taken off my contact list raises "red flags" with me. Maybe we should investigate your past and present dealings as a government official. You've been on the city council for way too long for my comfort. Get a life! I will give you two options for getting off my list, either, you can resign from your office, today, or you become a convicted politician whichever comes first and then I will gladly honor your request.
I am the son of a marine and I like to kick ass! Do you get my drift and I can bend steel with my teeth. I'm unbreakable and I am here for the long haul. I am the new sheriff in town. Change is happening. I've had enough of your form of city government and your way of doing business, it only works for the politicrooks. More emails are coming your way rest assured, but you can ignore them the same way you ignore the corruption occurring, daily, in your office and around Government Plaza.
Your request has been denied and to any other government official hoping for the same treatment well you too are out of luck. Don't even bother asking me. You're not Joe Citizen. You've lost that right as a public official.
In reviewing your biography (see below), I see where you've spent much of your time around sports and bringing sporting events and teams to Mobile. That's fine. However, sports has become a sugar coating on an otherwise bad tasting piece of candy -- be it at a cherished university or in a city. Mobile looks and taste like crap in its current form. This must change, it will.
You've ignored this longstanding reality. You've spent your entire corporate and political career doing the easy stuff instead of doing the heavy lifting of keeping our city government corrupt-free, solvent and working and it shows. The city's finances and security are a complete mess, why don't you explain to all of us why that's the case? Why the need to raise the sales tax, again? Everybody wants to know. What don't we know?
You start doing your job and I will do mine and we'll get along just fine.
Have a good day!
Source: Biography of Mr. George "Reggie" Copeland, Sr.
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
From: George R Copeland Sr
To: "tebjr1@yahoo.com"
Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2011 9:25 PM
Subject: Contact
Please. Remove me from your list!!!
Sent from my iPad
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Dear Ashley Rich, Mobile (AL) District Attorney's Office
Ashley,
After reading in the Lagniappe, this morning, what I perceived as your sincere comments about Gordon Waller, I thought I would bring the following "hot potato" to your attention. You'll probably want to recues yourself and your office from any investigation involving former D.A. John Tyson and Asst. D.A. Steve Giardini and their handling of the local Catholic priest molestation unit which they established, in 2003, in response to the national priest scandal. That summer, I came toward and met with the two of them about a “possible” claim of sexual abuse by a Catholic priest assigned to St. Ignatius, in 1980-82. I was 10 years old, at the time.
Following our meeting, where I gave them some details of a possible incident and the overall general conduct of this priest at our parish, I returned to my office where I "Googled" the priest's name “Norman Rogge” on my computer. To my surprise, the search pulled up a full length expose from 2002, on this same priest, in the Dallas Morning News describing how Rogge had left in his wake victims in FL, AL, LA and TX over a forty year period without ever facing prosecution while always denying any allegations of abuse. Trying to be helpful, I faxed over this piece of evidence, this "smoking gun" to Tyson's office. I am still waiting for a response from him or Steve.
The Penn State sex scandal got me all stirred up, once again. However, this time I took my complaint to Senator Jeff Sessions while copying dozens of prominent Mobilians including Press-Register President Ricky Matthews and Editorial Manager Frances Coleman, Sheriff Sam Cochran, Representative Jo Bonner and Alabama AG Luther Strange's office. Only Jeff Sessions responded to my cry for help. He stated in his letter that he had passed on my complaint to the Justice Department. I’ve yet to hear from them.
I would like for the possible cover up of my case and maybe others like it involving the state (the D.A's. office) and the Archdiocese of Mobile -- the Catholic Church to be fully investigated and made public. We all know what happened to Steve Giardini and only one clergy member, Brother Vic Bendillo at McGill-Toolen, in the entire Mobile Archdiocese faced prosecution for his crimes against children over the past 30 or 40 years. For being such a long standing Catholic community with a global epidemic, I now find this hard to believe.
My request to you is to find my file in your office and review it including the Dallas Morning News story before contacting Luther Strange's office. They appear uninterested in my new allegations of law enforcement and political corruption, in Mobile. What gives?
After putting this information out via e-mail, on my blog, http://www.toxicnation.blogspot.com/ and on Facebook, my initial reward from these various communities was an eerie silence. I got no reaction. As a political and social writer, I'm use to writing commentary on the corrupt and insane actions of Montgomery, Washington and the world. Now, I found myself in some new and scary territory after accusing local politicians of being just as corrupt based on my own personal experience. I was now making news. A paranoia set in that ultimately led to me being hospitalized in a psychiatric unit at Baptist Hospital, in Pensacola, FL (November 14-22, 2011). I was released on a judge’s order following my testimony in a commitment hearing. Upon my return home, in Daphne, I found Jeff Sessions' letter waiting for me in my mailbox.
He spoke up when everyone else wouldn't. I'm, now, fully recovered from this stress-induced mild manic/psychotic episode. I hope you'll take a hard look at my case and maybe others like from this same time period. Steve Giardini may, now, have something new to say about our meeting and any cases like mine. I hope you can get the AG's office and/or the local U.S. attorney's office involved. I believe that my civil rights were violated and I want my day in court with Mr. Tyson. I want him to explain his inaction.
At 40, I lived a pretty interesting life and sadly I’ve come to the conclusion that all our cherished institutions and systems are run by egomaniacs where everyone gets hurt to protect those few at the top. I want to throw the Catholic Church out of the United States, I want to bankrupt them and I want to stop their brainwashing ways on Americans, I want to stop their assault on humanity. They want your mind, body and soul to feed their evil, wicked and insane ways. I hope you’re not Catholic! The predatory behavior by religion, in general, must be stopped. Church and State are supposed to be separate, but they’re not. They’re colluding by protecting one another and their dishonest ways. This is a total violation of our constitution.
The state is protecting these churches by allowing them to literally strip Americans (innocent children who later become troubled “adults”) of their basic rights, of their personal power as spelled out in Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence. Our birthright of life, liberty and the pursuit of Happiness are endowed to us by our Creator, by God, not by King George III, not by our President or by the Pope. The justice system and law enforcement, law schools, city hall, statehouses and our federal government have forgotten all of this and now look at the sad state of affairs.
Our country finds itself – bankrupt, in every imaginable way. Please, surprise me by doing all that you can with my complaint. Our society is watching and waiting for our real leaders to step up. We need strong men and women to rise up in a revolt to this ongoing injustice and insanity.
I am a bright man, dangerously bright. See my attached resume for proof.
See Word attachment -- tedburnettresume 11-11a.doc
Ted Burnett
Daphne, AL
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