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Those Fickle Arabs

Posted by Jack Le Moine on Sunday, March 20, 2011 9:30:57 PM
In today’s blogs, History Moments: About Lord Randolph's famous Chips speech. Masters of Finance: Napoleon Hill's story about the importance of teamwork and short, achievable goals. Literature Daily: The fisherman outwits the genie in a passage from 1,0001 Nights. Political Journal: Is the Arab League going to withdraw it's support for the Libya attack?
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Preparing for State Chess Championship

Posted by Jack Le Moine on Friday, March 18, 2011 1:25:42 AM
Had fun this week helping kids prepare for the state chess championship tournament this Saturday. TV Show I've been watching: season 4 of that old Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In today’s blogs, History Moments: Muslims invade France; stopped in battle before Tours, 732. Masters of Finance: Napoleon Hill on teamwork and the value of that team agreeing on definite goals. Literature Daily: our heroes see the Hans loosing a large battle in distance in a passage from Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Political Journal: Who said, "It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous."
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Robert De Niro in a Great Film

Posted by Jack Le Moine on Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:50:25 AM
Movie I've been watching: Robert De Niro in Once Upon a Time in America. Way too much sex; too little romance. In today’s blogs, History Moments: A day in Scandinavia, circa 1700. Masters of Finance: Dave Ramsay advises to make a budget monthly as that keeps it real. Literature Daily: Scarecrow stumbles over some yellow bricks in his trip with Dorothy. Political Journal: Fact File on Libya.
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Reading Mari Smith

Posted by Jack Le Moine on Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:59:10 PM
Spent the morning with Kathy; shee needed a blood test. TV Show I've been watching: Alias: Final episode of season 3. Book I've been reading: Mari Smith's Facebook Marketing: An Hour a Day. In today’s blogs, History Moments: Part 1 of one of the great heists of history. Egypt's Pharoah and his room like Fort Knox. Masters of Finance: Benchley should not have become a successful writer but he did anyway. Literature Daily: a passage from where the lama laments Kim's absence. Political Journal: The House Budget Chairman's Sunday interview on the National Debt.
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I Like Robert Benchley's Quote!

Posted by Jack Le Moine on Monday, March 14, 2011 11:55:00 AM
I'm going to watch Mari Smith's video on the new facebook changes this morning. In today’s blogs, History Moments: Robert Benchley on his writing career. Masters of Finance: Rich Dad guy and The Donald advise to invest in stuff you know about and are interested in. Literature Daily: a passage from Agamemnon tells the Greek elders about his dream. They're assembled on the dock before King Nestor's ship. Political Journal: Police Union threatens businesses in Wisconsin. Chess Politics: Even more Polgar lawsuit stuff at the USCF's forums. Will this ever end?
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Met Tricia Pridemore Last Night

Posted by Jack Le Moine on Saturday, March 12, 2011 6:53:14 AM
Went to political meet and greet last night. Had great time. Met Trish Pridemore and husband. Lots of food and got acquainted with some of the political types in the area. In today’s blogs, History Moments: What did Will Rogers say to Calvin Coolidge that cracked "old stone face" and made it laugh? Masters of Finance: Move your business computing into the clouds. Literature Daily: a passage from Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay. Political Journal: about Trish Pridemore, candidate for Georgia State GOP Chairman.
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Tricia Pridemore for Georgia GOP Chair

Posted by Jack Le Moine on Friday, March 11, 2011 12:51:03 PM
Going to see Tricia Pridemore tonight. She's running for state chair of the Republican Party. County GOP convention is tomorrow. I plan on going. TV Show I've been watching: Alias. After the episode of the big reveal of Sidney's missing 2 years, the series seems to be falling apart. Why is Vaughn's wife acting as both a Covenant spy inside the CIA and an outside operative, too? No wonder she evenually will get caught! Book I've been reading: got inspired by Ramsay's Total Money Makeover. Been reading it for my Finance Blog. In today’s blogs, History Moments: Barbarians invade Rome; Franks get France (eventually). Masters of Finance: the advantages of moving your company server "in the clouds". Literature Daily: Xuande wins his battle but gets a surprise in a passage from Romance of the 3 Kingdoms. Political Journal: Be polite, says the Iron Chancellor.
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Obama/Gitmo Explanation: GOP Made Me Do It

Posted by Jack Le Moine on Wednesday, March 09, 2011 6:32:28 PM
Big rain in Atlanta today. Lots of thunder and lightning.
TV Show I've been watching: Jennifer Garner in Alias.
 
Book I've been reading: Still on David Hackett Fischer's Champlain. Up to Henry IV chapter. Just finished the St. Bartholemew's Day Massacre.
 
In today’s blogs,

History Moments: Durant visits the pyramids. Masters of Finance: We CPA's love Quickbooks. Why? Literature Daily: Mark Twain’s talking up journaling with passengers. Political Journal: Obama explains latest policy change on Gitmo. The devil made me do it - or the Republicans. Same thing. No, he didn't say that; the Washington Post's doing it for him.
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Can Obama Get Re-elected? (and more)

Posted by Jack Le Moine on Tuesday, March 08, 2011 6:21:34 PM
I've posted some more on my blogs today. Check out The Political Journal. History Moments: Herodotus analyzes Helen of Troy's story. Masters of Finance: Bismarks quote on civility. Literature Daily: a passage from Kim by Rudyard Kipling. Political Journal: Obama's re-election chances, the good and bad.
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Bismark on Politeness and etc.

Posted by Jack Le Moine on Monday, March 07, 2011 8:55:20 AM
In today’s blogs, History Moments: Bismark on politeness. Masters of Finance: Donald Trump on the importance of history. Literature Daily: a passage from from the Illiad where Agamemnon sent the criers round to call the people in assembly. Political Journal: Are the hearings on Muslim radicalization bad?
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My Views on Krauthammer's Latest and etc.

Posted by Jack Le Moine on Sunday, March 06, 2011 3:14:17 PM
Took Kathy out to McDonalds this morning. She's working at Sams Club. Will pick her up and go to church tonight. TV Show I've been watching: Watched Lois and Clark, an oldy Superman series from about 10 years ago. Book I've been reading: Bob Hope's book about the Presidents he has known (11 of them!) In today’s blogs, History Moments: It is 1880, the elections are over and you conservatives have lost again. What next? Masters of Finance: Napoleon Hill advises to ally with other people. More Literature Daily: a passage from 1,001 Nights where the genie tells the fisherman that he must kill him because he has set him free. Political Journal: Obama once derided G.W. Bush's views on democracy in the Middle East; now events are imposing those views on him. More
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What I've Been Up To 3/9/10

Posted by Jack Le Moine on Tuesday, March 09, 2010 10:32:15 PM
Yesterday, I read a book on Twitter. It was really an eye-opener for me. I did a little bit to my twitter site and my twitter practice. I went up from 6 to 65 followers. Here's my Twitter site, and check out the book, too.
Imagine Sam Sloan being respectable. Hard? Well, if Richard Nixon was able to make some kind of comeback after Watergate, why not him? Chess players will know who I'm talking about and why.
 
Here's another installment of Herodotus on my History Blog. H was a tourist as well as an historian in the 5th. century BC, so his description of the ancient Egypt he saw takes us back in time 2,400 years.
 
Now, with securities prices low is the best time to invest. In my Finance Blog, I ruminate on wisdom I found from Rich Dad and others.
 
Health Care dominates the news on my Politics Blog but the most far-reaching news is Obama's cutting back on the Space Program. What are the Left's goals in Space? If you have access to the USCF's Issues Forum, lots of craziness to chuckle at. In fact, I think I'll reproduce it - just for fun.
 
Don't forget to check out my very first video - Snow in Atlanta.
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Health Care Summit

Posted by Jack Le Moine on Saturday, February 27, 2010 7:37:52 AM
I watched most of the summit Thursday. Obvious points:
1) Obama wasn't really looking for agreement. It was just an act. Else, why would he try to refute every single one of the Republican statements, no matter how sincere, and trivialize the statements of even the most senior R leaders?
 
2) The most egregious D statements he let pass without comment.
 
3) He wound up the meeting with D only speakers, cutting the Republican leaders out of any role in ending the meeting.
 
This meeting was run to make O and his Democrats look good and R's look bad.
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Anti-Terror System Still Not Working

Posted by Jack Le Moine on Friday, January 08, 2010 3:25:14 PM
My take on Mark Steyn's latest. His column was published in the Orange County Register. Summary:Airport measures taken since the Christmas terror attack have made things worse for passengers while not hindering more terror attacks. Quote:
First, the bureaucrats at the TSA swung into action with a whole new range of restrictions. Against radical Yemen-trained Muslims wearing weaponized briefs? Of course not. That would be too obvious. So instead they imposed a slew of constraints against you. At Heathrow last week, they were permitting only one item of carry-on on U.S. flights. In Toronto, no large purses. Um, the Pantybomber didn't have a purse. He brought the bomb on board under his private parts, and his private parts weren't part of his carry-on. . . .
My Views: Valid point - National Security thinking needs to get away from all this politically correct, no profiling stuff. Clearly, the Fort Hood shooter should never have been promoted to Major in the US Army. It wasn't that his problems were unknown; it was the fear of official retribution if he was denied promotion - or (ahem!) kicked out of the army, entirely. Kicking him out of the country would have been too sensible. Not valid point - the criticisms of Obama. Yes, he ought not have allowed the Christmas Terrorist a civilian trial but once he did, his remarks couldn't prejudice the prosecution. So the reliance on the word "allegedly" and so on. More significant are the President's latest statements on how the system failed and how things need to be improved. Steyn's column is correct in critizing the President's actions; not so correct in criticizing the President's words. Sadly, actions still speak louder than words.
Mark Steyn is a syndicated columnist from Canada. Here's his Wiki bio. His book got several Human Rights Commissions in Canada hot and bothered. With free speech under unprecedented attack, Mark Steyn managed to pull out a badly needed victory. This was the first time a Canadian Human Rights Commission found a defendant innocent.
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Epiphany

Posted by Jack Le Moine on Wednesday, January 06, 2010 8:30:58 PM
This is the day commerating The Three Wisemen laying their gifts before Jesus. This day marks the end of the Christmas Season.
In our family, this is when we take down the Christmas decorations. In practice, we do the work on the next weekend after.
 
In culture, Christmas Carols refer to "the twelve days of Christmas". This is the twelfth day. In Latina culture, this is called Three Kings Day.
 
Ephiphany means to reveal. Theologically, this day is significant because the 3 Kings traveling and then paying homage to the baby Jesus revealed him as above all. Today Christian churches use the message to encourage people to "show" Jesus to the world by witnessing and by good deeds.
 
More information: The Voice.
 
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