My Simple World: The Bill Joel Song "Burning" With a Video

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Why "My Simple World" ?

My world is simple because I know who I am and, mostly, what I believe. I see a world from a "modern" perspective and not a "post modern" view. I believe there is a right and wrong. I believe that there are correct and incorrect ways of understanding events... it is not just a matter of what side of the fence you are on.

Most people in our postmodern world, especially the younger ones and intelligentsia, are growing more postmodern. They look at anyone who knows what they believe and believes in social norms as being narrow minded. So be it. However, these same postmoderns always seem to be the most intolerant of anyone who stands in their way - from whatever they believe at the moment.

Modernism - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernism

Postmodernism - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%20Postmodern_philosophy

Intelligentsia - http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intelligentsia

Quotes

"I am looking for a man who is clean and knows how to use eating utensils." Personal add in Arkansas
“Any health care funding plan that is just equitable civilized and humane must, must redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent health care is by definition redistributional.” Donald Berwick, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
"You can't underestimate the power of gossip." Everett Wilson
"I promise 100% transparency in my administration."; "I promise NO NEW TAXES on a family making less than $250K a year."; "I will allow 5 days of public comment before I sign any bills."; "I will remove earmarks for PORK projects before I sign any bill.";"I will end Income Tax for seniors making less than $50K a year" "I'll put the Health Care negotiations on CSPN so everyone can see who is at the table." Barack Obama
"Your view of God will determine your view of yourself." Ed T.
"First you have the innovators, then the imitators and, finally, the idiots." Mark Cuban explaining financial market bubbles
"Divorce is very hard on the children. Of course I'm a product of my parents staying together." George Costanza
"You choose your choices. Your choices make you." Kevin W.
"You don't teach ethics - you teach integrity because a person of integrity will do things in an ethical manner" Unknown
"I was a black man before I was elected." Barack Obama
"There are two people in a marriage. The wife and her mother." Kevin W.
“even in countries like Canada and the UK, there is no intrinsic right to health care. Rather citizens of those countries are told by government bureaucrats what health care treatments they are eligible to receive and when they can receive them.” John Mackey
“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money” Margaret Thatcer
"You don't know who is really swimming until the tide goes out" Warren Buffet
"Why is it that people who can't ake advice alway want to give it?" James Bond
"I don't care what they say about cows. My dad's cows didn't fart." June B
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." - Abraham Lincoln
"you will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime." Barack Obama many times during the 2008 presidential campaign.
"I can make a firm pledge, Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes." Barack Obama on Sep. 12, 2008.
Networks powering industrial control systems in nuclear power plants, hydroelectric plants, water utilities and the oil industry have been breached more than 125 times in the past decade, with one incident resulting in U.S. deaths, a control systems expert told a Senate panel Thursday. The control system sector is well behind the IT industry in cybersecurity defenses, said Joseph Weiss, managing partner of control systems security consultancy Applied Control Solutions, and a coordinated attack "could be devastating to the U.S. economy and security. We're talking months to recover. We're not talking days." Good Morning Silicon Valley from the San Jose Mercury News on 3/23/08
"Real change requires real change" Newt Gingrich
"Suppose for example you're a voter. And you've got candidate X and candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything, but you don't think that person can deliver on anything. Candidate Y disagrees with you on half the issues, but you believe that on the other half, the candidate will be able to deliver. For whom would you vote?" Bill Clinton
"The Warren Court wasn't that that radical..." “Redistribution of wealth is an administrative task.” “Although you can craft theoretical justifications for it legally…” “ This is not a discussion whether or not redistribution of wealth is right or wrong this is a discussion about how best to do it.” “Any three of us sitting here could come up with a rationale for bringing economic change through the courts." Barak Obama http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck
Speaking about Joe Biden. "He also said that all the powers and responsibilities of the executive branch are laid out in Article I of the Constitution, Well they're not. Article I of the Constitution is the one on the legislative branch." ... "Joe's been chairman of the Judiciary Committee, a member of the Judiciary Committee in the Senate for 36 years, teaches constitutional law back in Delaware, and can't keep straight which article of the Constitution provides for the legislature and which provides for the executive". Dick Cheney
"Conservation does not constitute an energy policy." Dick Cheney
"Life isn't a video game." Jennifer Gress
"Meet the American daily newspaper of 2008. It has fewer pages than three years ago, the paper stock is thinner, and the stories are shorter. There is less foreign and national news, less space devoted to science, the arts, features and a range of specialized subjects. Business coverage is either packaged in an increasingly thin stand-alone section or collapsed into another part of the paper. The crossword puzzle has shrunk, the TV listings and stock tables may have disappeared, but coverage of some local issues has strengthened and investigative reporting remains highly valued.The newsroom staff producing the paper is also smaller, younger, more tech-savvy, and more oriented to serving the demands of both print and the web. The staff also is under greater pressure, has less institutional memory, less knowledge of the community, of how to gather news and the history of individual beats. There are fewer editors to catch mistakes. Despite an image of decline, more people today in more places read the content produced in the newsrooms of American daily nepapers than at any time in years. But revenues are tumbling. The editors expect the financial picture only to worsen, and they have little confidence that they know what their papers will look like in five years." A Project for Excellence in Journalism study
"In place of justice they have rules.", unknown
"As the old philosopher once said facts are nice but slogans sell beer.", John Ehrlichman
" Niagra Falls is only the second most disapointing thing on peoples honeymoon" Oscar Wilde
"We know that communication is a problem, but the company is not going to discuss it with the employees.", Switching supervisor, AT&T Long Lines Division, honorable mention in the Dilbert stupid quotes contest but I think he should have won
"Doing it right is no excuse for not meeting the schedule." Plant Manager, Delco Corporation, honorable mention in the Dilbert stupid quotes contest
"What I need is an exact list of specific unknown problems we might encounter." Lykes Lines Shipping, honorable mention in the Dilbert stupid quotes contest
As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next Wednesday, and employees will receive their cards in two weeks." Fred Dales, Microsoft Corp., winner of the Dilbert stupid quotes contest
"There is no place holier than a chemo room. I blieve that. I walked into my first one in fear, and now enter them filled with love and admration and spiritual purity." Geoffrey Dunn, a cancer survivor

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