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The Case for Mitt

Now you understand why I wrote this post, earlier (http://www.threedonia.com/archives/48688).  Regardless, even with that preemptive shot I know I will be lambasted here for writing this, but, I’m a realist and I can’t help stating what I believe is fact.

First) I really wish there were some different candidates to choose from regarding the [...]

Conservation of Momentum

This post is a primer for a second post which I will have up soon.

It’s an interesting graphic (click on it if you’re having trouble reading the data points), and I won’t criticize the choices here, nor their locations (but please do so in the comments).  I use it here to [...]

Over the Back?!

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Self-Publish a Book

(I found this article by James Altucher on TechCrunch http://techcrunch.com/ and I thought some here would find it interesting.  Here’s the link to James’ post, if you want to comment to him directly, http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/28/why-every-entrepreneur-should-self-publish-a-book/   I’d be interested in the opinions of those here; Lars, Rich, David (any others?) with experience with this topic.)

 

I’ve [...]

Do the Dew

Threedonia’s Thankful — Happy Thanksgiving!!

What ever did the Pilgrim do for the natives? Indeed. Everyone around the world should be thankful for that fateful day in 1620 when English Separatists (Pilgrims) landed in Massachusetts sparking what would become The United States of America. Any by “everyone” I mean ALL of us — every color, belief system, wimmins, chillens, [...]

Occupy Reality

 

(h/t Tink in Cali and The Jawa Report)

A House Divided

This is a map done by USA Today showing voting by county in the 2004 Presidential election.  I have referenced it many times before on this site for various reasons, always political.  We’ve recently had some discussion here about tinkering, invention, self-sufficiency, independence… Those things seem to be less common today than they have been [...]

Id, Ego, Superego, Stapelego

Your Freudian slip is showing, Herr Doktor

(h/t Strange Herring)

(You’ll want to read about this without my comments, so I’ll add mine to the comments on this post.  It’s worth clicking over to the article at i09 to read the comments there.)

From i09:

Psychologist [...]

Must See TV

For those of you who have the Big Ten Network on your television service be sure to set your DVR’s for 3:00pm central (it is the Big Ten, after all) today for “Big Ten Icons” where the featured icon is the very iconic giant of Happy Valley, Joe Paterno.

(…and go Illini!  Shell the [...]

Saturday Gospel

The Silent, Sullen Peoples Shall Weigh Your Gods and You

In the final 90 minutes of his radio broadcast today Glenn Beck absolutely nails President Barack Obama’s psychology and his motivation for the past 30 years; our President is on a mission to undo the damage that he believes colonialism has done to civilization.  Mr. Beck”s analysis is very fair and he provides quotes [...]

The Mind of Rufus

(Floyd Here) Rufus T. Firefly As his name it is a lie For the mind of Rufus He forgot the words — Doofus.

Apropos of Nothing

Running in fear I will fail.

Charity Begins at the IRS

“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service”

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

On Monday, July 11, 2011 the President of the United States made the following statement regarding negotiations over raising the debt ceiling:

“I do not [...]

The Mind of Rufus

S*** my kid says:

“Dude, your charmeleon is way over-leveled.” – rufus t. firefly’s kid, overheard July 19, 2011

The Mind of Rufus

 

“After watching my first professional women’s soccer game yesterday I have concluded that the only real difference between it and the men’s game is the amount of fake drama over the slightest injury or contact;  rolling around on the ground like little, baby girls at any provocation.  If they could remove that one aspect [...]

The Mind of Rufus

 

“So Congress has a ‘debt ceiling’ that they keep raising.  I wonder how long a credit card company would be in business if they allowed card holders to raise their credit limits at their own discretion?  Like many words, I don’t think the word, ‘ceiling’ means the same thing to politicians as it does [...]

The Mind of Rufus

 

“One day scientists will discover an actual gene, on the second x chromosome in the 23rd pair, that makes women dial their cellphones when they are driving a car in a crowded parking lot.”- rufus t. firefly, July 12, 2011

John Stossel: The College Scam

“No degree required.”

David Marcoe raised some interesting points about education in today’s open thread. John Stossel has a new post up on www.townhall.com that questions the value of formal, higher education. http://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2011/07/06/the_college_scam

What do Michael Dell, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Mark Cuban have in common?

They’re all college dropouts.

Richard [...]